---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education - Children With Disabilities - Individualized Education Program Process - Parental Consent"
description: "Education - Children With Disabilities - Individualized Education Program Process - Parental Consent"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 710"
citation: "Maryland SB 710 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Curriculum", "Disabilities", "Discipline", "Education", "Minors", "Notices", "Parents and Guardians", "Students"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Conway"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6b9e370b-9dcf-4930-a857-809ba97fa305"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB710&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "19351c33a0364ca35f8bcc055591cc5cc332eeffe8a54c63ea140de95d17649b"
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 710 (2017) — Education - Children With Disabilities - Individualized Education Program Process - Parental Consent

## 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/sb0710f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Conway — primary (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 3/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-27** Favorable with Amendments {974137/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-28** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-04** Rereferred to Ways and Means
- **2017-04-04** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 727 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6b9e370b-9dcf-4930-a857-809ba97fa305`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).