---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education - Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program - Eligible Institutions"
description: "Higher Education - Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program - Eligible Institutions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 704"
citation: "Maryland HB 704 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Baker", "Schindler", "Valentine", "Wivell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/707d7444-7840-4d71-9611-a7c83865e2d5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0704?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "3962f81b5dcba1253f9ce8837c5befc7f4c1ff52bec8ccea332ff7c4fccbee36"
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 704 (2025) — Higher Education - Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program - Eligible Institutions

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Higher Education - Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program - Eligible Institutions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_382_hb0704t.pdf)
2. **First - Higher Education - Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program - Eligible Institutions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0704f.pdf)
3. **Third - Higher Education - Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program - Eligible Institutions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0704t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Baker — primary (person)
- Schindler — primary (person)
- Valentine — primary (person)
- Wivell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-31** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Motion Special Order until 4/7 (Senator Corderman) Adopted
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 382 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/707d7444-7840-4d71-9611-a7c83865e2d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).