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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Primary and Secondary Education - Black History Month - Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass"
+description: "Primary and Secondary Education - Black History Month - Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 879"
+citation: "Maryland SB 879 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Curriculum", "Education", "Historical Matters", "Holidays and Special Dates", "Human Rights", "Minorities", "Public Schools"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Griffith"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-02-08"
+last_action: "2019-04-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/34d5b0a9-b8f5-46ab-a6d2-e1b6431e0df3"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB879&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "41486deba8eab8150f7f475b2794b49579d06dbdd43b5a20a63af738cd118db7"
+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 SB 879 (2019) — Primary and Secondary Education - Black History Month - Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass
+
+## 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/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0879f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Griffith — primary (person)
+- Augustine — cosponsor (person)
+- Bailey — cosponsor (person)
+- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
+- Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Elfreth — cosponsor (person)
+- Ellis — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gallion — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hester — cosponsor (person)
+- Hough — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
+- Lam — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- McCray — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
+- Ready — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Salling — cosponsor (person)
+- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
+- Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
+- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-08** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-08** Motion Rules Suspended Referred (Senator Benson) Adopted
+- **2019-02-08** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-08** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-11** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-12** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-03-14** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-14** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-15** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-28** Favorable with Amendments {955760/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-29** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-02** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-02** Passed Enrolled
+- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 313 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/34d5b0a9-b8f5-46ab-a6d2-e1b6431e0df3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+