---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education - Accountability Program - Assessments (More Learning, Less Testing Act of 2017)"
description: "Education - Accountability Program - Assessments (More Learning, Less Testing Act of 2017)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 452"
citation: "Maryland SB 452 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Assessments", "Committees and Commissions", "Counties", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "Education", "State Board of", "Public Schools", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Manno"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95548bb7-497e-431b-8b0d-ef5197b8d241"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB452&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "12aff66998c93c424f9c1cdd5970d1a3543f707b6eb5d2c4ce9b6519e5f60006"
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 452 (2017) — Education - Accountability Program - Assessments (More Learning, Less Testing 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/sb0452f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Manno — primary (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Brochin — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Kasemeyer — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Muse — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Norman — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-30** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {824533/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-16** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-17** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-05** Favorable with Amendments {605167/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-06** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (139-0) `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 731 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95548bb7-497e-431b-8b0d-ef5197b8d241`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).