---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Schools – School Psychologists – Reports"
description: "Public Schools – School Psychologists – Reports"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 844"
citation: "Maryland HB 844 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Education", "Boards of", "Psychologists", "Public Schools", "Reports", "Sunset", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reilly"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f55322e-c07c-4ea5-95c9-5cb8668f8349"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB844&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "1527328fdfc9a71081da1d32dd318bc758319233b5db4831cd775b3dc59be052"
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 844 (2019) — Public Schools – School Psychologists – Reports

## 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/hb0844f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Reilly — primary (person)
- Anderton — cosponsor (person)
- Arikan — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Guyton — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** Favorable with Amendments {695069/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-12** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-12** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-28** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Special Order until 4/1 (Senator Ferguson) Adopted
- **2019-04-01** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Special Order until 4/2 (Senator Ferguson) Adopted
- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (42-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 552 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f55322e-c07c-4ea5-95c9-5cb8668f8349`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).