---
type: "Bill"
title: "Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program - Established"
description: "Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program - Established"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 937"
citation: "Maryland SB 937 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-02"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a28d3814-63f9-4edf-970f-98a816c411ee"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0937?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "433b0e5cb1ffe0324a6727292014426fe591f78c7fd998443d728f19202567d9"
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 937 (2024) — Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program - Established

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_227_sb0937t.pdf)
2. **First - Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0937f.pdf)
3. **Third - Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0937t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **124–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Augustine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-02** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment and Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-08** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Energy, and the Environment)
- **2024-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Referred Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-05** Rereferred to Ways and Means and Appropriations
- **2024-04-08** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 227 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a28d3814-63f9-4edf-970f-98a816c411ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).