---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship Program - Alterations to the Award of Scholarship Funds"
description: "Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship Program - Alterations to the Award of Scholarship Funds"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 240"
citation: "Maryland SB 240 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Committees and Commissions", "Community Colleges", "Data", "Education", "Higher Education Commission", "Revenue and Taxes", "Scholarships and Student Financial Aid", "Students", "Tuition"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edwards"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-25"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7cef4f66-1320-448e-a984-38f48706f46c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB240&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "e3266a3b0053d26a3a9ad31daa5fb94fa66437e93b14063c8bf31c4b0a45d7f8"
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 SB 240 (2019) — Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship Program - Alterations to the Award of Scholarship Funds

## 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/sb/sb0240f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **128–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Edwards — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-25** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Favorable with Amendments {334934/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-07** Third Reading Passed (45-1) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-22** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-25** Third Reading Passed (128-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-26** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 464 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7cef4f66-1320-448e-a984-38f48706f46c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).