---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education - Richard W. Collins III Leadership With Honor Scholarship - Establishment"
description: "Higher Education - Richard W. Collins III Leadership With Honor Scholarship - Establishment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 1202"
citation: "Maryland SB 1202 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Appropriations", "Armed Forces", "Grants", "Higher Education", "Higher Education Commission", "Minorities", "Scholarships and Student Financial Aid", "State Universities and Colleges", "Students"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peters"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 30
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-02-23"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9872a156-9a37-4720-bf4a-4db649febe65"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1202&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "2f68ef67cc80cf6c93826746dda04890c1706c627cb9d3d0b0d40bca9f17d154"
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 SB 1202 (2018) — Higher Education - Richard W. Collins III Leadership With Honor Scholarship - Establishment

## 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/sb/sb1202f.pdf)

## Votes

- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Peters — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Brochin — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Kasemeyer — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Muse — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
- Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-23** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** Rereferred to Budget and Taxation
- **2018-02-27** Reassigned to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2018-02-28** Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {264230/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Laid Over (Senator Conway) Adopted
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {264230/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Floor Amendment {893527/1 (Senator Peters) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-20** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-20** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Favorable with Amendments {585064/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (135-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
- **2018-04-09** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2018-04-09** Conference Committee Appointed
- **2018-04-09** Senators Pinsky, Bates, and Kagan
- **2018-04-09** House Refuses to Recede
- **2018-04-09** Conference Committee Appointed
- **2018-04-09** Delegates Luedtke, Patterson, and Shoemaker
- **2018-04-09** Conference Committee Report Adopted
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Conference Committee Report Adopted
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 597 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9872a156-9a37-4720-bf4a-4db649febe65`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).