---
type: "Bill"
title: "County Boards of Education - Length of School Year - Adjustments"
description: "County Boards of Education - Length of School Year - Adjustments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 729"
citation: "Maryland SB 729 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "Education", "State Board of", "Emergency Bills", "Public Schools", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["King"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-02"
last_action: "2018-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86380114-83bd-484b-8846-1e8c64275586"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB729&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "59f991ab06396656bba4527eaab21ba81593f7be72dc71b7b2fd8b73f668f57e"
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 729 (2018) — County Boards of Education - Length of School Year - Adjustments

## 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/sb0729f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **132–6** (pass) · lower
- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- King — primary (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-02** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-02** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {384530/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** 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.
- **2018-03-22** Hearing canceled
- **2018-03-22** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Favorable with Amendments {965062/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (132-6) `passage`
- **2018-04-02** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-02** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 34 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/86380114-83bd-484b-8846-1e8c64275586`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).