---
type: "Bill"
title: "Special Education – Individualized Education Programs – Timeline for Independent Educational Evaluations"
description: "Special Education – Individualized Education Programs – Timeline for Independent Educational Evaluations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 611"
citation: "Maryland HB 611 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Claims", "Communications", "Disabilities", "Education", "Examinations", "Notices", "Parents and Guardians", "Public Schools", "Revenue and Taxes", "Rules and Regulations", "Special Education", "Students"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Guyton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-06"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4dcf532-96da-4640-b425-96c3fba555ce"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB611&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "73dad1b835e3b207c73b61878c291ad46d3b2326795a4a8dfeee0e31cdf4c93e"
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 611 (2019) — Special Education – Individualized Education Programs – Timeline for Independent Educational Evaluations

## 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/hb0611f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Guyton — primary (person)
- Cain — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-06** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-25** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-26** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-26** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-02-28** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-01** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-26** 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 547 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b4dcf532-96da-4640-b425-96c3fba555ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).