---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community Colleges - Small Community Colleges - Funding"
description: "Community Colleges - Small Community Colleges - Funding"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 521"
citation: "Maryland SB 521 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Community Colleges", "Grants"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ready"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-01"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd607b61-21ec-44ac-8543-922152249d32"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB521&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "a0a39ce7e1af9112892e68bd4c86062a6f99d52e3d1fe79e24687e74812f4563"
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 521 (2017) — Community Colleges - Small Community Colleges - Funding

## 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/sb0521f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **136–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ready — primary (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Norman — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-01** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-30** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable with Amendments {559535/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-04** Rereferred to Appropriations
- **2017-04-04** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Favorable with Amendments {604567/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-1) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 330 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fd607b61-21ec-44ac-8543-922152249d32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).