---
type: "Bill"
title: "County Boards of Education - Special Education Service Delivery Models - Publication Requirement"
description: "County Boards of Education - Special Education Service Delivery Models - Publication Requirement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 702"
citation: "Maryland HB 702 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "Feldmark", "Guyton", "Kaufman", "McComas", "Ruth", "Schindler", "Shetty", "Wims", "Wolek"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/816df01e-3c47-4c90-9517-73b183e18077"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0702?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "33a6d3bdd0e88820b1abdb0decc6507c8a1423805a999284282ab353cda22b78"
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 702 (2025) — County Boards of Education - Special Education Service Delivery Models - Publication Requirement

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - County Boards of Education - Special Education Service Delivery Models - Publication Requirement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_544_hb0702t.pdf)
2. **First - County Boards of Education - Special Education Service Delivery Models - Publication Requirement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0702f.pdf)
3. **Third - County Boards of Education - Special Education Service Delivery Models - Publication Requirement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0702t.pdf)

## Votes

- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- Schindler — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Wims — primary (person)
- Wolek — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-12** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-12** Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-04** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2025-04-07** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-07** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2025-04-07** Senate Recede
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 544 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/816df01e-3c47-4c90-9517-73b183e18077`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).