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type: "Bill"
title: "Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act"
description: "Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 504"
citation: "Maryland HB 504 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Administration", "Speaker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 38
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/750a5a57-8aa3-4e23-81b7-fd32500c72ba"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0504?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "233488f03301402058c8c3dccca6caeb8581ee05af10ee1f9d771770141f6614"
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 504 (2025) — Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_237_hb0504e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0504e.pdf)
3. **First - Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0504f.pdf)
4. **Third - Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0504t.pdf)
## Votes
- FLA Del. Nkongolo /793326/1 — **4095** (fail) · lower
- Floor Amendment Ready /773521/1 — **1727** (fail) · upper
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) — **10138** (pass) · lower
- FLA Del. Fisher /733422/1 — **3997** (fail) · lower
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **3413** (pass) · upper
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. (Amend) — **3313** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **10039** (pass) · lower
- FLA Del. Fisher /733422/1 Previous Question — **10922** (pass) · lower
- FLA Del. Adams /123026/1 — **3798** (fail) · lower
## Sponsors
- Administration — primary (person)
- Speaker — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-22** First Reading Appropriations and Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations)
- **2025-02-13** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations) and Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
- **2025-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Motion Special Order until 03/05 (Delegate Adams) Adopted
- **2025-03-05** Motion Special Order until Later This Session (Delegate Adams) Adopted
- **2025-03-05** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-05** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-05** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-05** Motion Vote Previous Question (Delegate J. Lewis) Adopted
- **2025-03-05** Floor Amendment (Delegate Fisher) Rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2025-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Referred Budget and Taxation Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Motion Laid Over (Senator Guzzone) Adopted
- **2025-03-31** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-01** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-04** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2025-04-04** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Barnes, Atterbeary and Smith)
- **2025-04-05** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-05** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2025-04-05** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Barnes, Atterbeary and Smith)
- **2025-04-05** Senate Refuses Recede
- **2025-04-05** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Guzzone, King, Watson and Salling)
- **2025-04-05** Senate Refuses Recede
- **2025-04-05** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Guzzone, King, Watson and Salling)
- **2025-04-07** Conference Committee Report {
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Conference Committee Report {
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 237 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/750a5a57-8aa3-4e23-81b7-fd32500c72ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).