---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education - Student Financial Assistance - Alterations and Appropriation (Maryland Student Investment Act)"
description: "Higher Education - Student Financial Assistance - Alterations and Appropriation (Maryland Student Investment Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 734"
citation: "Maryland HB 734 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lierman", "Solomon"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-03"
last_action: "2022-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d848d848-369c-47af-b5ad-2ab368a68643"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0734?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "64e14aae7886a4a9bbd0bab70267076954c977b1f2f87dc25125af91e5eaa4a3"
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 734 (2022) — Higher Education - Student Financial Assistance - Alterations and Appropriation (Maryland Student Investment Act)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Higher Education - Student Financial Assistance - Alterations and Appropriation (Maryland Student Investment Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_23_hb0734t.pdf)
2. **First - Higher Education - Student Financial Assistance - Alterations and Appropriation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0734f.pdf)
3. **Third - Higher Education - Student Financial Assistance - Alterations and Appropriation (Maryland Student Investment Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0734t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lierman — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-03** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-15** Floor Amendment {
- **2022-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-16** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-29** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2022-04-09** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(b) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 23 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d848d848-369c-47af-b5ad-2ab368a68643`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).