---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education - Student Data Privacy Council"
description: "Education - Student Data Privacy Council"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 245"
citation: "Maryland HB 245 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Committees and Commissions", "Data", "Education", "State Department of", "Privacy", "Reports", "Students", "Sunset", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kaiser"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-24"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7869850b-db0b-4994-add6-03e347a2c8a2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB245&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "b1a09603b8e1477fa3b4f0492545c3b12d4de77a0e69c727dc83c3e11ff14dd0"
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 HB 245 (2019) — Education - Student Data Privacy Council

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0245f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
- Boyce — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- C. Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Cain — cosponsor (person)
- Carey — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Feldmark — cosponsor (person)
- Guyton — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Ivey — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Love — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- Palakovich Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-24** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-24** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-12** Favorable with Amendments {375266/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-02-14** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-15** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Favorable with Amendments {154835/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-28** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-01** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2019-04-01** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-01** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 398 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7869850b-db0b-4994-add6-03e347a2c8a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).