---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education - Student Financial Assistance - Dependents of State or Local Public Safety Employees (Maryland Fallen Heroes Tuition Benefits Act)"
description: "Higher Education - Student Financial Assistance - Dependents of State or Local Public Safety Employees (Maryland Fallen Heroes Tuition Benefits Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 3"
citation: "Maryland HB 3 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beauchamp", "Miller", "Pasteur", "Schindler", "Woorman", "Ziegler"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-09-04"
last_action: "2026-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc35424d-f103-41c5-a605-e7fe09192ca8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0003?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "646b66fdcedb5eef44925847eb4299fd0d8816a3e8628f32586fc78524dad565"
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 3 (2026) — Higher Education - Student Financial Assistance - Dependents of State or Local Public Safety Employees (Maryland Fallen Heroes Tuition Benefits Act)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Higher Education - Student Financial Assistance - Dependents of State or Local Public Safety Employees (Maryland Fallen Heroes Tuition Benefits Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_798_hb0003e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Higher Education - Student Financial Assistance - Dependents of State or Local Public Safety Employees (Maryland Fallen Heroes Tuition Benefits Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0003e.pdf)
3. **First - Higher Education - Nonresident Tuition - Exemption for Dependents of State or Local Public Safety Employees (Maryland Fallen Heroes Tuition Benefits Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0003f.pdf)
4. **Third - Higher Education - Nonresident Tuition - Exemption for Dependents of State or Local Public Safety Employees (Maryland Fallen Heroes Tuition Benefits Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0003t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beauchamp — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Schindler — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)
- Ziegler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-09-04** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2026-01-14** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-28** Hearing 2/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-02-09** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-10** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2026-02-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-02-13** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-10** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-13** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-13** Passed Enrolled
- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 798 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc35424d-f103-41c5-a605-e7fe09192ca8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).