---
type: "Bill"
title: "Educational Equality for Service Members Act"
description: "Educational Equality for Service Members Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 276"
citation: "Maryland SB 276 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bailey", "Gallion", "Jennings", "Mautz", "Salling", "Simonaire"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-10"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b83223d0-34c4-407c-aa4f-e07adcc28cdc"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0276?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "42d961c3e886edcaf36949d29c91770a73d487d7594e66ba259b5184cbade093"
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 276 (2025) — Educational Equality for Service Members Act

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Educational Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_255_sb0276t.pdf)
2. **First - Educational Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0276f.pdf)
3. **Third - Educational Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0276t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bailey — primary (person)
- Gallion — primary (person)
- Jennings — primary (person)
- Mautz — primary (person)
- Salling — primary (person)
- Simonaire — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-10** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-03** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-03** Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Referred Ways and Means Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
- **2025-03-26** Hearing canceled (Ways and Means)
- **2025-03-26** Hearing 3/26 at 2:15 p.m. (Ways and Means)
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 255 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b83223d0-34c4-407c-aa4f-e07adcc28cdc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).