---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education - Assessments - Administration by Public School Employees"
description: "Education - Assessments - Administration by Public School Employees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 617"
citation: "Maryland HB 617 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Assessments", "Public Employees", "Public Schools", "School Administration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ebersole"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-29"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bf38920-9f9e-4f3e-8893-94c23314c1d6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB617&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "b4ff49161125d90823622524ee9e16f9915b630b170746c4a661749a08da0d3d"
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 617 (2018) — Education - Assessments - Administration by Public School Employees

## 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/hb0617f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ebersole — primary (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Ali — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-29** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-30** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {295764/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-16** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-16** 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 383 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2bf38920-9f9e-4f3e-8893-94c23314c1d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).