---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education – Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship – Altering Name of Scholarship"
description: "Higher Education – Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship – Altering Name of Scholarship"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 372"
citation: "Maryland HB 372 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "Bartlett", "Chang", "Charles", "Chisholm", "Crosby", "Crutchfield", "Henson", "Kerr", "Munoz", "Patterson", "Pruski", "Rogers", "Sample-Hughes", "Schmidt", "Simmons", "Taveras", "Valderrama", "Wilson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-26"
last_action: "2023-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68a09e10-f069-4594-8ef0-844914691a98"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0372?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "9c2ae2f4ca3e57ecb47597ccf0caa2cf2001ba7d3028d613321cf2abdbe2b233"
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 372 (2023) — Higher Education – Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship – Altering Name of Scholarship

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Higher Education – Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship – Altering Name of Scholarship** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_734_hb0372t.pdf)
2. **First - Higher Education – Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship – Altering Name of Scholarship** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0372f.pdf)
3. **Third - Higher Education – Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship – Altering Name of Scholarship** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0372t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Bartlett — primary (person)
- Chang — primary (person)
- Charles — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Crosby — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- Henson — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Munoz — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Pruski — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
- Schmidt — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Valderrama — primary (person)
- Wilson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-26** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-16** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-04** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2023-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 734 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/68a09e10-f069-4594-8ef0-844914691a98`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).