---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education - Public School Attendance - Homeless Children"
description: "Education - Public School Attendance - Homeless Children"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 127"
citation: "Maryland SB 127 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Education - Miscellaneous", "Boundaries", "Counties", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "Human Services", "Department of", "Juvenile Causes", "Juvenile Services", "Department of", "Minors", "Parents and Guardians", "Prices", "Public Schools", "Rules and Regulations", "School Administration", "Social Services", "Students", "Youth"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Simonaire"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-18"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10eaedf9-8e76-4249-a059-87f58127438c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB127&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "28cea80ec0ffe18424e1652831433d51d8c92596a1929a202fc6bb45e4de7557"
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 SB 127 (2019) — Education - Public School Attendance - Homeless Children

## 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/sb/sb0127f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Simonaire — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-18** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-18** Hearing 1/30 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-11** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-12** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-12** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-02-14** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-15** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-28** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 467 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10eaedf9-8e76-4249-a059-87f58127438c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).