---
type: "Bill"
title: "Residential Boarding Education Programs for At-Risk Youth - Eligibility"
description: "Residential Boarding Education Programs for At-Risk Youth - Eligibility"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1475"
citation: "Maryland HB 1475 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Education", "Education", "State Department of", "Private Schools", "Social Services", "Students"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Washington"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1f05cbb-5a70-4ca1-9188-c1f3a7845214"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1475&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "bae973961b30c1c11f1f8a5eeadfb803ed55a9a00d58fce5d812d8d7a3920101"
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 1475 (2017) — Residential Boarding Education Programs for At-Risk Youth - Eligibility

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1475f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- A. Washington — primary (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-10** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-09** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-14** Third Reading Passed (141-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-15** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs and Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 324 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1f05cbb-5a70-4ca1-9188-c1f3a7845214`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).