---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education - Scholarships for Correctional Officers"
description: "Higher Education - Scholarships for Correctional Officers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 852"
citation: "Maryland HB 852 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Coley", "Mireku-North", "Pasteur", "Roberson", "Sample-Hughes", "Wu"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-02-04"
last_action: "2026-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc1ae24d-a288-49a9-b3e8-ddaf60b25e44"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0852?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "14119d8b55af57cdc16d34c3492b8808c7c08c8660491730d8ca904a78590598"
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 852 (2026) — Higher Education - Scholarships for Correctional Officers

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Higher Education - Scholarships for Correctional Officers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_680_hb0852t.pdf)
2. **First - Higher Education - Scholarships for Correctional Officers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0852f.pdf)
3. **Third - Higher Education - Scholarships for Correctional Officers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0852t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **132–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Coley — primary (person)
- Mireku-North — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Roberson — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
- Wu — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-04** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-17** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-02-20** Hearing canceled
- **2026-02-20** Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-19** Referred Judicial Proceedings Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-10** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-10** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-13** Returned Passed
- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 680 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cc1ae24d-a288-49a9-b3e8-ddaf60b25e44`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).