---
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: "SB 562"
citation: "Maryland SB 562 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Assessments", "Data", "Notices", "Public Employees", "Public Schools", "School Administration", "State Employees", "Telecommunications and Information Technology", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Zucker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83512282-1cca-47d8-adc2-b09bb6f478e5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB562&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "02bdbe8b9fe4f7c3779696ae650d764b916e49dc6562bd354bad7b583e481bd4"
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 562 (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/sb/sb0562f.pdf)

## Votes

- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Zucker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-31** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Favorable with Amendments {554733/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-12** Hearing 3/22 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 {125764/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (134-0) `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 384 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83512282-1cca-47d8-adc2-b09bb6f478e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).