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type: "Bill"
title: "Education - Libraries - Reorganization of Governance Structure"
description: "Education - Libraries - Reorganization of Governance Structure"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 587"
citation: "Maryland SB 587 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education - Miscellaneous", "Administrative Agencies", "Annotated Code of Maryland", "Appropriations", "Committees and Commissions", "Deaf Persons", "Legislative Services", "Department of", "Libraries"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["King"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-02"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cbe62cf6-dcbd-4004-9b91-e70de4ca137e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB587&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "5627409a8bd03675d8ead4f050b229f74c1c871934efb01907a73fb7e8422902"
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 587 (2017) — Education - Libraries - Reorganization of Governance Structure
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/sb/sb0587f.pdf)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **1390** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **470** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- King — primary (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Muse — cosponsor (person)
- Norman — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-02** First Reading Budget and Taxation and Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
- **2017-02-24** Hearing canceled
- **2017-02-24** Hearing 3/01 at 2:30 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {679033/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-21** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 337 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cbe62cf6-dcbd-4004-9b91-e70de4ca137e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).