---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education - Family Life and Human Sexuality Curriculum - Boundaries and Consent"
description: "Education - Family Life and Human Sexuality Curriculum - Boundaries and Consent"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 251"
citation: "Maryland HB 251 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Boundaries", "Curriculum", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "Human Rights", "Public Schools", "Sexual Offenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelly"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-19"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/425f4bcd-bc49-4a77-83f6-ab016d2366de"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB251&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "ef1da80ac6fca677eaab7f41953d61486eb3c7376b5ee1ca8ba397552c3c204b"
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 251 (2018) — Education - Family Life and Human Sexuality Curriculum - Boundaries and 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0251f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **117–17** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kelly — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- Barve — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
- Folden — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-19** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-01-30** Hearing canceled
- **2018-01-30** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-22** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-23** Favorable with Amendments {585569/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-23** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-27** Third Reading Passed (117-17) `passage`
- **2018-02-28** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 736 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/425f4bcd-bc49-4a77-83f6-ab016d2366de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).