---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education - Student Loan Notification Letter"
description: "Higher Education - Student Loan Notification Letter"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 509"
citation: "Maryland HB 509 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Disclosure", "Electronic Communication", "Higher Education", "Notices", "Scholarships and Student Financial Aid", "Tuition"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hettleman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-27"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87cda3c1-67e1-4b2d-9204-05b35711598d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB509&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "46b821fafb555fc6c0616dcba8740c3be91336d58f93b6b2b201e49534a49564"
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 509 (2017) — Higher Education - Student Loan Notification Letter

## 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/hb0509f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **119–12** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **125–12** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hettleman — primary (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Vogt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-27** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {954865/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (119-12) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** 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 {914531/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (125-12) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 658 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87cda3c1-67e1-4b2d-9204-05b35711598d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).