---
type: "Bill"
title: "Institutions of Higher Education - Prohibition Against Incentive Payments - Foreign Student Exemption"
description: "Institutions of Higher Education - Prohibition Against Incentive Payments - Foreign Student Exemption"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 927"
citation: "Maryland SB 927 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pinsky"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-10"
last_action: "2021-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0256c67-3685-4a53-9838-fd41230656ed"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0927?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "17babc1ba0e692090c8f00cd0311ae4088d8748f74f9fba4ef5ed3cb97a73aac"
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 927 (2021) — Institutions of Higher Education - Prohibition Against Incentive Payments - Foreign Student Exemption

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Institutions of Higher Education - Prohibition Against Incentive Payments - Foreign Student Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_735_sb0927t.pdf)
2. **First - Institutions of Higher Education - Prohibition Against Incentive Payments - Foreign Student Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0927f.pdf)
3. **Third - Institutions of Higher Education - Prohibition Against Incentive Payments - Foreign Student Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0927t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **100–34** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pinsky — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-10** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2021-03-03** Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2021-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-19** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** Hearing 4/01 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-04-10** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-12** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-12** Motion Special Order until Later This Session (Delegate J. Lewis) Adopted
- **2021-04-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-12** Returned Passed
- **2021-05-30** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 735 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b0256c67-3685-4a53-9838-fd41230656ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).