---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Library Agency - Family Literacy Pilot Program - Establishment"
description: "State Library Agency - Family Literacy Pilot Program - Establishment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 378"
citation: "Maryland SB 378 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Washington", "Attar", "Augustine", "Brooks", "Feldman", "Hester", "Kagan", "M. Washington", "Watson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-17"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a5a1a28-edfb-472a-ba49-a1df8df5b3dc"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0378?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "068bec45b5a7bfe2c9c989ef84c24abd2d0cb0beb46092d74bd17c8a7a090ee8"
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 378 (2025) — State Library Agency - Family Literacy Pilot Program - Establishment

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Library Agency - Family Literacy Pilot Program - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_368_sb0378t.pdf)
2. **First - State Library Agency - Family Literacy Pilot Program - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0378f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Library Agency - Family Literacy Pilot Program - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0378t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–3** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- A. Washington — primary (person)
- Attar — primary (person)
- Augustine — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- Feldman — primary (person)
- Hester — primary (person)
- Kagan — primary (person)
- M. Washington — primary (person)
- Watson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-17** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Hearing 2/12 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-10** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-10** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-28** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-05** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-05** Hearing 3/19 at 2:15 p.m.
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 368 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a5a1a28-edfb-472a-ba49-a1df8df5b3dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).