republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2020/sb-564.md

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Bill	Education - High School Graduation Requirements - Students in Foster Care or Homeless Youth	Education - High School Graduation Requirements - Students in Foster Care or Homeless Youth	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2020	SB 564	Maryland SB 564 (2020)	bill		enacted	Benson Elfreth Ellis Hester Lam Patterson Washington	3	12	2	2020-01-31	2020-05-08	openstates	ocd-bill/ee6e6968-2742-4110-a429-15f35de173a2	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0564?ys=2020RS&search=True	a45b528a365ea9d7f326f61b72c9bfccbf3674c6ceffd34bf862053b63b66471	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 564 (2020) — Education - High School Graduation Requirements - Students in Foster Care or Homeless Youth

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Education - High School Graduation Requirements - Students in Foster Care or Homeless Youth (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Education - High School Graduation Requirements - Students in Foster Care or Homeless Youth (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Education - High School Graduation Requirements - Students in Foster Care or Homeless Youth (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 134–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Benson — primary (person)
• Elfreth — primary (person)
• Ellis — primary (person)
• Hester — primary (person)
• Lam — primary (person)
• Patterson — primary (person)
• Washington — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-31 First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2020-02-05 Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2020-03-06 Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-09 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-09 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2020-03-11 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-12 Referred Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2020-03-17 Favorable Report by Ways and Means committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-17 Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed committee-passage-favorable
• 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 565 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ee6e6968-2742-4110-a429-15f35de173a2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).