---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community Colleges - Contraception - Access Requirements"
description: "Community Colleges - Contraception - Access Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 527"
citation: "Maryland SB 527 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kagan", "Kelly"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-24"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/484f0b7e-4f65-43c8-b1a8-9c9c54d61556"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0527?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e618508f0de4781d9d2f6fdb0b0cbd8c85da9215d948edac4acdc241a2f7e604"
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 527 (2024) — Community Colleges - Contraception - Access Requirements

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Community Colleges - Contraception - Access Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_338_sb0527t.pdf)
2. **First - Community Colleges - Contraception - Access Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0527f.pdf)
3. **Third - Community Colleges - Contraception - Access Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0527t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **34–13** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **106–33** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kagan — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-24** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-05** Motion Laid Over (Senator Salling) Adopted
- **2024-03-06** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Referred Appropriations Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-16** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations)
- **2024-03-20** Hearing canceled (Appropriations)
- **2024-03-20** Hearing 3/20 at 2:00 p.m. (Appropriations)
- **2024-04-02** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 338 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/484f0b7e-4f65-43c8-b1a8-9c9c54d61556`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).