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type: "Bill"
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title: "Educational Equality for Service Members Act"
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description: "Educational Equality for Service Members Act"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
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legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "HB 600"
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citation: "Maryland HB 600 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Allen", "Attar", "Buckel", "Cardin", "Guyton", "Harris", "McComas", "Pasteur", "Patterson", "Phillips", "Pruski", "Rose", "Taveras", "Williams", "Wims"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 12
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2025-01-23"
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last_action: "2025-05-06"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3dcaa9e-4b62-4716-8bdd-19c2bd8f9c5a"
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source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0600?ys=2025RS&search=True"
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source_hash: "2007c8b2f79317eca0d0d5a381cc0575cb6f43149900dd03f8a3c3fe3b846850"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
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---
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# Maryland HB 600 (2025) — Educational Equality for Service Members Act
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Chapter - Educational Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_256_hb0600t.pdf)
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2. **First - Educational Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0600f.pdf)
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3. **Third - Educational Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0600t.pdf)
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## Votes
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- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Acevero — primary (person)
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- Allen — primary (person)
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- Attar — primary (person)
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- Buckel — primary (person)
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- Cardin — primary (person)
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- Guyton — primary (person)
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- Harris — primary (person)
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- McComas — primary (person)
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- Pasteur — primary (person)
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- Patterson — primary (person)
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- Phillips — primary (person)
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- Pruski — primary (person)
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- Rose — primary (person)
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- Taveras — primary (person)
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- Williams — primary (person)
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- Wims — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-23** First Reading Ways and Means and Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
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- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
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- **2025-03-17** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
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- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
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- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 256 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b3dcaa9e-4b62-4716-8bdd-19c2bd8f9c5a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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