---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education - Prekindergarten Student Assessment"
description: "Education - Prekindergarten Student Assessment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 548"
citation: "Maryland HB 548 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Assessments", "Auditors and Audits", "Counties", "Disabilities", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "Rules and Regulations", "Students"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shoemaker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d69b4a9-0a0b-468f-9977-6ec37221528e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB548&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "a089f86b4383d908d0128773c3a1c40b68aeb0422be0f8884e5d25eb71e5073d"
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 548 (2017) — Education - Prekindergarten Student Assessment

## 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/hb0548f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **44–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Shoemaker — primary (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Kittleman — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-30** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {295769/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-10** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Motion two readings same day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Pinsky) Adopted
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (44-1) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 333 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d69b4a9-0a0b-468f-9977-6ec37221528e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).