---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education - Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program - Alterations"
description: "Higher Education - Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program - Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 789"
citation: "Maryland SB 789 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Attar", "Augustine", "Brooks", "M. Washington"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd081158-d267-4a9f-8e5c-94c701f03f6c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0789?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "53adabce50df2c0722030b1a092383abe1688e58021413a842a3cb63c677a5f6"
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 789 (2025) — Higher Education - Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program - Alterations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Higher Education - Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_322_sb0789t.pdf)
2. **First - Higher Education - Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0789f.pdf)
3. **Third - Higher Education - Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0789t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **106–33** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Attar — primary (person)
- Augustine — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- M. Washington — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-19** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-19** Hearing 2/21 at 9:30 a.m.
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-15** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-26** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-26** Hearing 3/26 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** 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 322 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fd081158-d267-4a9f-8e5c-94c701f03f6c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).