---
type: "Bill"
title: "Howard County Board of Education – Election of Members Ho. Co. 01–19"
description: "Howard County Board of Education – Election of Members Ho. Co. 01–19"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 590"
citation: "Maryland HB 590 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education - Local Bills", "Education", "Boards of", "Howard County", "Jurisdiction", "Voting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howard County Delegation"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6023aa3-1bca-4a9e-a7a2-658cdcdc4c6f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB590&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "a0e2006729af761f4086b8113e9ab93ece7dec95c70a7030009b3b95cbe8abc3"
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 590 (2019) — Howard County Board of Education – Election of Members Ho. Co. 01–19

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0590f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Howard County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-07** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-12** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-12** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-26** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 150 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c6023aa3-1bca-4a9e-a7a2-658cdcdc4c6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).