---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community Colleges - Out-of-State Fee - Waiver for Border State Residents"
description: "Community Colleges - Out-of-State Fee - Waiver for Border State Residents"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 117"
citation: "Maryland SB 117 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Boundaries", "Community Colleges", "Fees", "Interstate Affairs", "Students"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edwards and Serafini"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-13"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ebc6975d-2fb1-4320-88bf-8d403263d3a4"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB117&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "9aa07b38f65534f32a87556db860a998abfa98b00a52c05ef5c79c9edb8f3745"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---

# Maryland SB 117 (2017) — Community Colleges - Out-of-State Fee - Waiver for Border State Residents

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/sb/sb0117f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Edwards and Serafini — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-13** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Hearing 2/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-01-20** Hearing canceled
- **2017-01-20** Hearing 2/01 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-09** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-13** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-13** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-15** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-15** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-01** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 691 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ebc6975d-2fb1-4320-88bf-8d403263d3a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).