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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025"
+description: "Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 455"
+citation: "Maryland HB 455 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Attar", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cardin", "Charkoudian", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Fennell", "Foley", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kaufman", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "McComas", "Palakovich Carr", "Pena-Melnyk", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Simmons", "Spiegel", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "Taylor", "Valderrama", "White Holland", "Williams", "Wims", "Woods", "Woorman"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-01-20"
+last_action: "2025-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ca24b23-fe17-4a51-a229-68e2ef10bf56"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0455?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "13cef0b4c3de25ad1c9b83878e09dce24841452ecbd0e9a03f130ab47576ac08"
+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 455 (2025) — Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_252_hb0455t.pdf)
+2. **First - Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0455f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0455t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alston — primary (person)
+- Attar — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Cardin — primary (person)
+- Charkoudian — primary (person)
+- Chisholm — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Fennell — primary (person)
+- Foley — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Hutchinson — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Kipke — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- M. Morgan — primary (person)
+- Martinez — primary (person)
+- McComas — primary (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Reilly — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- S. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Simmons — primary (person)
+- Spiegel — primary (person)
+- Szeliga — primary (person)
+- Taveras — primary (person)
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+- Valderrama — primary (person)
+- White Holland — primary (person)
+- Williams — primary (person)
+- Wims — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+- Woorman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-20** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-21** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-02-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-25** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-28** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-24** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-01** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 252 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ca24b23-fe17-4a51-a229-68e2ef10bf56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+