---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pathways in Technology Early College High (P-TECH) Expansion Act of 2019"
description: "Pathways in Technology Early College High (P-TECH) Expansion Act of 2019"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 440"
citation: "Maryland HB 440 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Higher Education", "Budgets", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "Grants", "Higher Education", "Industry and Technology", "Public Schools", "Revenue and Taxes", "Students", "Telecommunications and Information Technology", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harrison"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-31"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c34c6d3-026f-457d-9295-5607d4532aa7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB440&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "9898d52f01fdda3a8a371e70053c8c704fe1c038a60033d2509c2758eb238d95"
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 440 (2019) — Pathways in Technology Early College High (P-TECH) Expansion Act of 2019

## 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/hb0440f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–1** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Harrison — primary (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Boteler — cosponsor (person)
- Boyce — cosponsor (person)
- Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- Cain — cosponsor (person)
- Charles — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- D.E. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- D.M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Feldmark — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Guyton — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Ivey — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Lehman — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- Palakovich Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Proctor — cosponsor (person)
- R. Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- W. Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-31** First Reading Ways and Means and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {485769/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-08** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (45-1) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** 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/1c34c6d3-026f-457d-9295-5607d4532aa7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).