---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education - Fire Drill Requirements - State Fire Prevention Code"
description: "Education - Fire Drill Requirements - State Fire Prevention Code"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 201"
citation: "Maryland SB 201 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Public Safety", "Counties", "Education", "State Department of", "Fire Protection", "Public Schools"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["King"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-19"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c34ac223-fab2-4204-b75c-1a0e7941617a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB201&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "74e6da92f9624006242ba35a9357674115b8c76ed9490625e372289eda8fa5d9"
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 201 (2017) — Education - Fire Drill Requirements - State Fire Prevention Code

## 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/sb0201f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- King — primary (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-19** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-20** Hearing 2/01 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-06** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-09** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-10** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-01** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 175 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c34ac223-fab2-4204-b75c-1a0e7941617a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).