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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program - Account Clarifications"
+description: "Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program - Account Clarifications"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 448"
+citation: "Maryland HB 448 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Disabled", "Taxes - Income", "Committees and Commissions", "Disabilities", "Revenue and Taxes"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bromwell"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-26"
+last_action: "2017-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0fbfcf5-090b-4de8-871b-9cbff6575be5"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB448&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "637f49fbdfe61b16882946fb5e3ac7b69eaaa499c7545f3637bba50e604872b8"
+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 448 (2017) — Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program - Account Clarifications
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0448f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bromwell — primary (person)
+- Barron — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Miele — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-26** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-02-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-01** Favorable with Amendments {996786/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-03** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-06** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-23** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-24** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-03-27** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-27** Returned Passed
+- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 132 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c0fbfcf5-090b-4de8-871b-9cbff6575be5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+