---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pathways in Technology Early College High (P-TECH) School Act of 2017"
description: "Pathways in Technology Early College High (P-TECH) School Act of 2017"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 319"
citation: "Maryland SB 319 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Counties", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "State Department of", "Grants", "Higher Education", "Higher Education Commission", "Industry and Technology", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Students", "Tuition"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["The President (By Request - Administration) and Bates"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10b47750-b3c5-409e-ba00-5bfc2b173164"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB319&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "ab9fc66dee37b3ab7342b88b569a166f80e5a007e0a7f2f005ee5091796bdaf7"
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 319 (2017) — Pathways in Technology Early College High (P-TECH) School Act of 2017

## 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/sb0319f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- The President (By Request - Administration) and Bates — primary (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Norman — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs and Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs)
- **2017-02-23** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-24** Favorable with Amendments {434033/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-24** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-01** First Reading Ways and Means and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
- **2017-04-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Favorable with Amendments {735563/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 591 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10b47750-b3c5-409e-ba00-5bfc2b173164`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).