---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community Colleges - Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship - Requirements"
description: "Community Colleges - Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship - Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 607"
citation: "Maryland HB 607 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harris"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-25"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97aea709-f8ef-460b-9cfc-d0a8b58685ef"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0607?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "71fc400405494c1746fcfddb3d1809d61d6396f3d54d4967cb56b546672fbf0b"
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 607 (2024) — Community Colleges - Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship - Requirements

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Community Colleges - Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship - Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_355_hb0607t.pdf)
2. **First - Community Colleges - Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship - Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0607f.pdf)
3. **Third - Community Colleges - Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship - Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0607t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harris — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-25** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** Hearing 2/20 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-02-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-15** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-02** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 355 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/97aea709-f8ef-460b-9cfc-d0a8b58685ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).