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type: "Bill"
title: "County Boards of Education - Length of School Year - Adjustments"
description: "County Boards of Education - Length of School Year - Adjustments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 679"
citation: "Maryland HB 679 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "Public Schools", "School Administration", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pena-Melnyk"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29d5c922-cdba-4679-adac-9eb29c9e6357"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB679&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "9f8118aaa677751d24d20671f33797f20bfca1b8c35f01b702bc73875f4c314e"
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 679 (2018) — County Boards of Education - Length of School Year - Adjustments
## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0679f.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **460** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **12512** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **1344** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Ali — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
- Frick — cosponsor (person)
- Frush — cosponsor (person)
- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Proctor — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Vallario — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-31** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-06** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Favorable with Amendments {115060/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Special Order until 3/7 (Delegate Parrott) Adopted
- **2018-03-07** Floor Amendment {243627/1 (Delegate Parrott) Rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (125-12) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Favorable with Amendments {204032/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-30** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2018-04-05** Third Reading Passed (134-4) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 35 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/29d5c922-cdba-4679-adac-9eb29c9e6357`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).