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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study"
+description: "Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 325"
+citation: "Maryland HB 325 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Atterbeary", "Boyce", "Ebersole", "Fair", "Feldmark", "Lehman", "Mireku-North", "Palakovich Carr", "Patterson", "Pena-Melnyk", "Roberson", "Roberts", "Simmons", "Vogel", "Wells", "Wilkins", "Wims", "Wu", "Young"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-01-10"
+last_action: "2025-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cbcd8406-a7e4-4de9-9849-2d5882031441"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0325?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "73c345258bc6dd3b2c12be0ca47625fe490a36dae1d42056707527ead9a82ccf"
+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 325 (2025) — Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_328_hb0325e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0325e.pdf)
+3. **First - Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0325f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0325t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **114–24** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **99–31** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Atterbeary — primary (person)
+- Boyce — primary (person)
+- Ebersole — primary (person)
+- Fair — primary (person)
+- Feldmark — primary (person)
+- Lehman — primary (person)
+- Mireku-North — primary (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
+- Patterson — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Roberson — primary (person)
+- Roberts — primary (person)
+- Simmons — primary (person)
+- Vogel — primary (person)
+- Wells — primary (person)
+- Wilkins — primary (person)
+- Wims — primary (person)
+- Wu — primary (person)
+- Young — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-10** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-15** Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-02-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-25** Motion Special Order until 02/26 (Delegate Szeliga) Adopted
+- **2025-02-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-02-28** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-03** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-31** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-01** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-03** House Concurs Senate Amendments
+- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-03** Passed Enrolled
+- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 328 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cbcd8406-a7e4-4de9-9849-2d5882031441`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+