---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education - Tuition Waivers for Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Alterations"
description: "Higher Education - Tuition Waivers for Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 701"
citation: "Maryland SB 701 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Foster Care", "Higher Education", "Indigent Persons", "Scholarships and Student Financial Aid", "Students", "Tuition", "Youth"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Zucker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fe541277-8672-4138-bd39-050fd73b997e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB701&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "de120a42475babfa091d9c1dd708869910515902d2b3f8be7a3a046905c68e90"
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 701 (2017) — Higher Education - Tuition Waivers for Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Alterations

## 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/sb0701f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Zucker — primary (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Muse — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 3/01 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 (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-10** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-10** 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 (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 320 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fe541277-8672-4138-bd39-050fd73b997e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).