---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education - Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program - Farmers"
description: "Higher Education - Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program - Farmers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1532"
citation: "Maryland HB 1532 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Agriculture", "Department of", "Agriculture", "Environment", "Department of", "Farmland", "Higher Education", "Reimbursement Rates", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Salaries and Compensation", "Scholarships and Student Financial Aid", "Time", "Tuition"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["S. Howard"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-09"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0e563b2-6952-4df7-84b6-baec2b83d77e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1532&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "532bb109c4ad16d63410a19506888ffadcd07fa9399b652c20cb2f3729b8c430"
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 HB 1532 (2018) — Higher Education - Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program - Farmers

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1532f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- S. Howard — primary (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Ali — cosponsor (person)
- Aumann — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Folden — cosponsor (person)
- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Impallaria — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-09** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {535763/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 404 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b0e563b2-6952-4df7-84b6-baec2b83d77e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).