---
type: "Bill"
title: "Baltimore County Board of Education - Education Transparency Act"
description: "Baltimore County Board of Education - Education Transparency Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 76"
citation: "Maryland HB 76 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education - Local Bills", "Primary and Secondary Education", "Baltimore County", "Education", "Boards of", "Electronic Communication", "Electronic Government", "Open Government", "Public Information", "Records", "Time", "Video", "Voting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Baltimore County Delegation"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-11"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07246eba-db7a-4443-86c1-07ad9ba91a6c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB76&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "c72c52ba91fc87f4873fadbbbb20e80ca65ac7abf1e25e75f2e4589a9b86e2c6"
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 76 (2018) — Baltimore County Board of Education - Education Transparency Act

## 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/hb0076f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Baltimore County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-11** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Hearing 2/01 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Favorable with Amendments {575865/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-29** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2018-04-02** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 368 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07246eba-db7a-4443-86c1-07ad9ba91a6c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).