---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Higher Education Commission - Academic Program Approval - Revisions"
description: "Maryland Higher Education Commission - Academic Program Approval - Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 9"
citation: "Maryland SB 9 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-10-01"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c4a8134-c535-4e42-aaaa-7848d24c72b4"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0009?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e5596c096eb74881c30f94fdebb7db871e30a9bbe4b75949b05200c6f6097def"
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 9 (2025) — Maryland Higher Education Commission - Academic Program Approval - Revisions

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Higher Education Commission - Academic Program Approval - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_143_sb0009t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Higher Education Commission - Academic Program Approval - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0009f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Higher Education Commission - Academic Program Approval - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0009t.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Chair, Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-01** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-09** Hearing 1/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-01-14** Hearing canceled
- **2025-01-14** Hearing 1/22 at 10:00 a.m.
- **2025-01-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-28** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-01-30** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-01-31** 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.
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 143 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c4a8134-c535-4e42-aaaa-7848d24c72b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).