---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Pregnant and Parenting Students - Plan Requirements (Pregnant and Parenting Student Support Act)"
description: "Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Pregnant and Parenting Students - Plan Requirements (Pregnant and Parenting Student Support Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 840"
citation: "Maryland HB 840 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Addison", "Hill", "Kaiser", "McCaskill", "Palakovich Carr", "Ruth", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c6641e5-4045-40b1-9ed1-2c041be63b15"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0840?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "5465b4c2d043d3925fe9267d2dd0eb4937a557bb71b30a74a2fe1f7dbeef9f06"
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 840 (2025) — Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Pregnant and Parenting Students - Plan Requirements (Pregnant and Parenting Student Support Act)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Pregnant and Parenting Students - Plan Requirements (Pregnant and Parenting Student Support Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_336_hb0840t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Pregnant and Parenting Students - Plan Requirements (Pregnant and Parenting Student Support Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0840f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Senior Higher Education Institutions - Pregnant and Parenting Students - Plan Requirements (Pregnant and Parenting Student Support Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0840t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Addison — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-05** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-05** Hearing 3/05 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 336 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c6641e5-4045-40b1-9ed1-2c041be63b15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).