---
type: "Bill"
title: "Consumer Protection – Private Career Schools and For–Profit Institutions of Higher Education – Disclosures"
description: "Consumer Protection – Private Career Schools and For–Profit Institutions of Higher Education – Disclosures"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 464"
citation: "Maryland HB 464 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Commercial Law - Consumer Protection", "Consumer Protection", "Education", "Fees", "Higher Education", "Higher Education Commission", "Private Schools", "Revenue and Taxes", "Salaries and Compensation", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hettleman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-01"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f4b40dd-1e08-4642-a184-7905a9ad9949"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB464&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "b05774e1b603ba8535ca43d2b92d1ba7ed836aaf8dfc3426af1fbd3fbb34711d"
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 464 (2019) — Consumer Protection – Private Career Schools and For–Profit Institutions of Higher Education – Disclosures

## 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/hb0464f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **130–7** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hettleman — primary (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-01** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {764265/1 Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {764265/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-15** Third Reading Passed (130-7) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 516 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f4b40dd-1e08-4642-a184-7905a9ad9949`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).