republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2017/hb-287.md

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Bill	Hunger-Free Schools Act of 2017	Hunger-Free Schools Act of 2017	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2017	HB 287	Maryland HB 287 (2017)	bill	Primary and Secondary Education Counties Education Boards of Food Grants Public Schools Reports Students	enacted	Hixson	1	14	2	2017-01-23	2017-05-25	openstates	ocd-bill/9f10dc99-2e60-4bec-9a77-5dbde9ad7056	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB287&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs	d857065c991bd3509550a89420270f3ab4e525b442a1b17da8ff2fdce107c1be	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 287 (2017) — Hunger-Free Schools Act of 2017

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 127–10 (pass) · legislature
• Third Reading — 44–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Hixson — primary (person)
• A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
• Ali — cosponsor (person)
• Branch — cosponsor (person)
• C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
• D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
• Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
• Haynes — cosponsor (person)
• M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
• Mosby — cosponsor (person)
• Patterson — cosponsor (person)
• Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
• Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
• Turner — cosponsor (person)
• Walker — cosponsor (person)
• Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-23 First Reading Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2017-01-26 Hearing 2/09 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2017-02-16 Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-02-17 Favorable with Amendments {635469/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-02-17 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2017-02-21 Third Reading Passed (127-10) passage
• 2017-02-22 First Reading Budget and Taxation and Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2017-03-08 Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
• 2017-03-29 Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-30 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-30 Second Reading Passed
• 2017-03-31 Third Reading Passed (44-0) passage
• 2017-03-31 Returned Passed
• 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 665 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9f10dc99-2e60-4bec-9a77-5dbde9ad7056. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).