---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established"
description: "Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 903"
citation: "Maryland HB 903 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Attar", "Atterbeary", "Bouchat", "Buckel", "Ebersole", "Edelson", "Fair", "Feldmark", "Griffith", "Grossman", "Guzzone", "Hartman", "Henson", "Hill", "Hornberger", "Kaufman", "Korman", "Miller", "Mireku-North", "Palakovich Carr", "Patterson", "Terrasa", "Watson", "Wells", "Wilkins", "Wilson", "Wims", "Wu", "Young", "Ziegler"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-02"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/effd9086-1b29-4b51-ad2e-7221700c2b89"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0903?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "58bc1715470e0b9dadc0f6244e2d30e01aede2be0490c45fda2d33d748ec163e"
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 903 (2024) — Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_171_hb0903e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0903e.pdf)
3. **First - Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0903f.pdf)
4. **Third - Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0903t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **131–1** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Attar — primary (person)
- Atterbeary — primary (person)
- Bouchat — primary (person)
- Buckel — primary (person)
- Ebersole — primary (person)
- Edelson — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)
- Grossman — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hartman — primary (person)
- Henson — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hornberger — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Korman — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Mireku-North — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- Watson — primary (person)
- Wells — primary (person)
- Wilkins — primary (person)
- Wilson — primary (person)
- Wims — primary (person)
- Wu — primary (person)
- Young — primary (person)
- Ziegler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-02** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-07** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-07** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-13** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Floor Amendment {
- **2024-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-05** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2024-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 171 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/effd9086-1b29-4b51-ad2e-7221700c2b89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).