---
type: "Bill"
title: "Residential Boarding Education Programs for At-Risk Youth - Eligibility"
description: "Residential Boarding Education Programs for At-Risk Youth - Eligibility"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 595"
citation: "Maryland SB 595 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Education", "Education", "State Department of", "Private Schools", "Social Services", "Students"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nathan-Pulliam"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-02"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a608721f-13e8-4335-af8e-93296126cb7a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB595&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "d6788166f01eed17b95ef2c0909d923978c954351eb9cdea18dc6e45d17f592c"
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 595 (2017) — Residential Boarding Education Programs for At-Risk Youth - Eligibility

## 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/sb0595f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Nathan-Pulliam — primary (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-02** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs and Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs)
- **2017-02-27** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** Special Order until 3/3 (Senator Pinsky) Adopted
- **2017-03-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-07** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-07** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 323 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a608721f-13e8-4335-af8e-93296126cb7a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).