---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education – Head Start Program – Annual Appropriation (The Ulysses Currie Act)"
description: "Education – Head Start Program – Annual Appropriation (The Ulysses Currie Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 373"
citation: "Maryland SB 373 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Appropriations", "Education", "Names"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Currie"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-24"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9bfe8d40-c56d-4fac-9c44-b4d7ac54cd1d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB373&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "872657a6c24ae1224a2c768668228c404af4245d990507bd560f988ad1c780d2"
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 373 (2018) — Education – Head Start Program – Annual Appropriation (The Ulysses Currie 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/sb/sb0373f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **127–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Currie — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Brochin — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — 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)
- Norman — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — 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.

- **2018-01-24** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-20** Favorable with Amendments {109232/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-20** Committee Amendment Adopted
- **2018-02-20** Special Order until 2/21 (Senator McFadden) Adopted
- **2018-02-21** Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-21** Floor Amendment {153627/1 (Senator McFadden) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2018-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-23** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-26** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-19** Hearing canceled
- **2018-03-19** Hearing 3/20 at 1:15 p.m.
- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-30** Third Reading Passed (127-9) `passage`
- **2018-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 556 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9bfe8d40-c56d-4fac-9c44-b4d7ac54cd1d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).