---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education – Senatorial and Delegate Scholarships – Reimbursement of Expenses for Community College Certification and Licensure"
description: "Higher Education – Senatorial and Delegate Scholarships – Reimbursement of Expenses for Community College Certification and Licensure"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 470"
citation: "Maryland SB 470 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Community Colleges", "Curriculum", "General Assembly", "Licenses", "Reimbursement Rates", "Scholarships and Student Financial Aid", "Students", "Tuition"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Salling"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-26"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/130665ba-40e6-4035-ae72-a2b34a1e8b0d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB470&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "a7893acd4e0329a7e7b21f5835595d5f6ae83241e9ccddfb420c70a09ba31354"
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 470 (2018) — Higher Education – Senatorial and Delegate Scholarships – Reimbursement of Expenses for Community College Certification and Licensure

## 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/sb0470f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Salling — primary (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Brochin — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-26** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-26** Hearing 2/14 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-23** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-26** Favorable with Amendments {764432/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-01** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-05** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-07** Favorable with Amendments {305166/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 376 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/130665ba-40e6-4035-ae72-a2b34a1e8b0d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).