---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Financial Aid - Reduction Restrictions"
description: "Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Financial Aid - Reduction Restrictions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 327"
citation: "Maryland SB 327 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Higher Education", "Scholarships and Student Financial Aid", "State Universities and Colleges", "Students", "Tuition"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Young"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-24"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21f1347a-c141-47f3-84ea-3e5318bcafbd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB327&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "4b303e72885b2926847d7b59b49d064d1fc49c4561a7d9cd2e0a97b5fd438738"
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 327 (2017) — Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Financial Aid - Reduction Restrictions

## 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/sb0327f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **138–2** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Young — primary (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Muse — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-24** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {464432/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-15** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (138-2) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 331 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/21f1347a-c141-47f3-84ea-3e5318bcafbd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).