---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community Colleges - Facilities Renewal Grant Program - Established"
description: "Community Colleges - Facilities Renewal Grant Program - Established"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 403"
citation: "Maryland HB 403 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Appropriations", "Community Colleges", "Construction", "Grants", "Higher Education Commission", "Rules and Regulations", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-24"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/364ab404-a891-4ae8-8fd5-53d6aa604e05"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB403&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "fb34d9547c0cc3d733ee3acd9e211b474bbe0baeecf2042c28c6a653b610aed0"
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 403 (2018) — Community Colleges - Facilities Renewal Grant Program - Established

## 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/hb0403f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jones — primary (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Haynes — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-24** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-12** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-14** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-15** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-23** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** Favorable with Amendments {809237/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-26** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-28** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-28** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 687 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/364ab404-a891-4ae8-8fd5-53d6aa604e05`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).