---
type: "Bill"
title: "The Textbook Cost Savings Act of 2017"
description: "The Textbook Cost Savings Act of 2017"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 424"
citation: "Maryland SB 424 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Primary and Secondary Education", "Disabilities", "Education", "State Department of", "Grants", "Higher Education", "Reports", "State Universities and Colleges", "Students", "Sunset", "Textbooks"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rosapepe"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-27"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d9c55b3-8bf9-4f34-81f3-c9f236f5ad88"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB424&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "f7c0d520b7579a56ddee9aeffe2bf443007ce3656dfbc7a52ef02777f1e91988"
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 424 (2017) — The Textbook Cost Savings 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/sb0424f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **137–2** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **44–2** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Rosapepe — primary (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-27** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-27** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-06** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-09** Third Reading Passed (44-2) `passage`
- **2017-03-10** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-05** Favorable with Amendments {434460/2 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-06** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-2) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 763 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5d9c55b3-8bf9-4f34-81f3-c9f236f5ad88`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).