---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education - Policy on Student Concerns About Athletic Programs and Activities"
description: "Higher Education - Policy on Student Concerns About Athletic Programs and Activities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 876"
citation: "Maryland HB 876 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Communications", "Disclosure", "Discrimination", "Harassment", "Higher Education", "Higher Education Commission", "Internet", "Notices", "Privacy", "Public Information", "Reports", "Sports and Recreation", "Students", "Threats"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hettleman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57d59d7f-801f-4f42-919e-610e02272e3e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB876&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "c11de58ffe920238df8430d262425320d06ac621cc05e1ab77906ed690f1735f"
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 876 (2019) — Higher Education - Policy on Student Concerns About Athletic Programs and Activities

## 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/hb0876f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **116–22** (pass) · lower
- No motion given — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hettleman — primary (person)
- Acevero — cosponsor (person)
- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Solomon — cosponsor (person)
- Terrasa — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-15** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (116-22) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 506 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57d59d7f-801f-4f42-919e-610e02272e3e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).