republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2017/hb-654.md

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags

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Bill	Education - Statewide Kindergarten Assessment - Completion	Education - Statewide Kindergarten Assessment - Completion	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2017	HB 654	Maryland HB 654 (2017)	bill	Primary and Secondary Education Assessments Education Students Teachers	enacted	Kaiser	1	13	2	2017-02-01	2017-04-18	openstates	ocd-bill/e2a34bc6-8985-4f8a-92bc-cdbc44858df6	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB654&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs	a8c9e46275c50928416baf5b71d1b28b86165ceeb0600f52f3ee2f915551f8f1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 654 (2017) — Education - Statewide Kindergarten Assessment - Completion

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 — 46–0 (pass) · legislature
• Third Reading — 137–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Kaiser — primary (person)
• Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
• Barkley — cosponsor (person)
• Cullison — cosponsor (person)
• Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
• Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Korman — cosponsor (person)
• Krebs — cosponsor (person)
• Krimm — cosponsor (person)
• Lierman — cosponsor (person)
• Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
• M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
• McComas — cosponsor (person)
• Patterson — cosponsor (person)
• Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
• Rose — cosponsor (person)
• Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
• Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
• Turner — cosponsor (person)
• West — cosponsor (person)
• Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-01 First Reading Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2017-02-01 Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2017-02-23 Favorable Report by Ways and Means committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-02-24 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-02-24 Second Reading Passed
• 2017-02-28 Third Reading Passed (137-0) passage
• 2017-03-01 First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2017-04-04 Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-04-04 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-04-04 Second Reading Passed
• 2017-04-05 Third Reading Passed (46-0) passage
• 2017-04-06 Returned Passed
• 2017-04-18 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 326 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e2a34bc6-8985-4f8a-92bc-cdbc44858df6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).