republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2020/hb-318.md

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Maryland HB 318 (2020) — University System of Maryland – Textbooks – Availability of Free or Low–Cost Digital Materials (Textbook Transparency Act of 2020)

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - University System of Maryland – Textbooks – Availability of Free or Low–Cost Digital Materials (Textbook Transparency Act of 2020) (committee substitute) — source
2. First - University System of Maryland - Textbooks - Availability of Free Digital Materials (Textbook Transparency Act of 2020) (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - University System of Maryland – Textbooks – Availability of Free or Low–Cost Digital Materials (Textbook Transparency Act of 2020) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 133–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barron — primary (person)
• Boyce — primary (person)
• Carr — primary (person)
• Charkoudian — primary (person)
• Ebersole — primary (person)
• Feldmark — primary (person)
• Hettleman — primary (person)
• Kerr — primary (person)
• Lierman — primary (person)
• Love — primary (person)
• Moon — primary (person)
• Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
• Shetty — primary (person)
• Solomon — primary (person)
• Stewart — primary (person)
• Terrasa — primary (person)
• Wells — primary (person)
• Wilkins — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-20 First Reading Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-24 Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2020-03-10 Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-11 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-11 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2020-03-12 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-13 Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2020-03-18 Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-18 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-18 Second Reading Passed
• 2020-03-18 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-18 Returned Passed
• 2020-05-08 Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 165 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ebc3e655-2d8d-43e6-afea-d96deb6d09fc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).