---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Financial Aid - Reduction Restrictions"
description: "Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Financial Aid - Reduction Restrictions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 266"
citation: "Maryland HB 266 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Higher Education", "Scholarships and Student Financial Aid", "State Universities and Colleges", "Students", "Tuition"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stein"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a196b1e9-0466-4292-bd96-daafba4a1205"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB266&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "865f99efb39548c9c5ff6637e3bb9c7dcf244082688d9bc994f1fc88e154640d"
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 266 (2017) — Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Financial Aid - Reduction Restrictions

## 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/hb0266f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **135–1** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **135–2** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Stein — primary (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-23** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {804962/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-13** Floor Amendment {123521/1 (Delegate Stein) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2017-03-13** Special Order until 3/14 (Delegate Rey) Adopted
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (135-2) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable with Amendments {224239/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (135-1) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 332 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a196b1e9-0466-4292-bd96-daafba4a1205`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).