republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2019/sb-734.md

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Bill	Education - Students With Reading Difficulties - Screenings and Interventions	Education - Students With Reading Difficulties - Screenings and Interventions	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2019	SB 734	Maryland SB 734 (2019)	bill	Primary and Secondary Education Audiologists and Speech Pathologists Communications Curriculum Data Disclosure Education Boards of Education Education State Department of Electronic Communication Electronic Government Examinations Forms Job Training Language Literacy Local Government Mandates Notices Parents and Guardians Prices Psychologists Public Information Public Schools Records Reports Rules and Regulations School Testing Special Education Students Teachers Telecommunications and Information Technology Time	enacted	Zucker	1	18	3	2019-02-04	2019-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/aa5be3ff-bc22-49a0-ad4e-ebb57a399968	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB734&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs	c4c3816de6baabe1a461b2d383547d5e6b9ab81d2341775ab002f83dc561a221	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 734 (2019) — Education - Students With Reading Difficulties - Screenings and Interventions

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• On third reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 137–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Zucker — primary (person)
• Ellis — cosponsor (person)
• Feldman — cosponsor (person)
• Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
• Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
• Hershey — cosponsor (person)
• Lam — cosponsor (person)
• Lee — cosponsor (person)
• Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
• Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
• West — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-04 First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2019-02-05 Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2019-03-14 Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-14 Favorable with Amendments {864034/1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-14 Special Order until later today (Senator Eckardt) Adopted
• 2019-03-14 Favorable with Amendments {864034/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-14 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2019-03-18 Third Reading Passed (46-0) passage
• 2019-03-19 First Reading Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2019-03-19 Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2019-03-25 Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-26 Favorable with Amendments {255465/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-26 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2019-03-27 Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-0) passage
• 2019-04-02 Senate Concur - House Amendments
• 2019-04-02 Third Reading Passed (45-0) passage
• 2019-04-02 Passed Enrolled
• 2019-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 512 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aa5be3ff-bc22-49a0-ad4e-ebb57a399968. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).