---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education - Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program - Eligible Institutions"
description: "Higher Education - Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program - Eligible Institutions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 597"
citation: "Maryland SB 597 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Corderman", "McKay"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-27"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee804cd5-5f5d-4ce5-96c5-5578d2dc28d1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0597?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "fb356428f865a9b508435f678a304b22f0dd57f0266c85775da407a048e1dc68"
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 597 (2025) — Higher Education - Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program - Eligible Institutions

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Higher Education - Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program - Eligible Institutions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_383_sb0597t.pdf)
2. **First - Higher Education - Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program - Eligible Institutions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0597f.pdf)
3. **Third - Higher Education - Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program - Eligible Institutions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0597t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Corderman — primary (person)
- McKay — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-27** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-06** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-06** Hearing 2/19 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 383 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ee804cd5-5f5d-4ce5-96c5-5578d2dc28d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).