---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education - St. Mary's College of Maryland - Governing Authority"
description: "Higher Education - St. Mary's College of Maryland - Governing Authority"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 435"
citation: "Maryland SB 435 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Committees and Commissions", "State Universities and Colleges"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["King"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-27"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2fc837e-1188-41c7-9b84-40426929dff5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB435&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "fe3a1a0a76b0df486c3f1a4cce62cb4a08ceaf7aac8c694d642df4ce9fd06483"
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 435 (2017) — Higher Education - St. Mary's College of Maryland - Governing Authority

## 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/sb0435f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- King — primary (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Waugh — 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.
- **2017-02-23** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-24** Favorable with Amendments {714437/1 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 Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 422 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b2fc837e-1188-41c7-9b84-40426929dff5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).