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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: "SB 451"
+citation: "Maryland SB 451 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Augustine", "Brooks", "Kagan", "King", "M. Washington"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-01-22"
+last_action: "2025-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f462eca-fee4-4f8b-b76f-f7dac61e3e42"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0451?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "0147488657e9611dfe7528db5822dc2db5380c960bb3ab994cb219fbe8b45092"
+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 451 (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_327_sb0451e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0451e.pdf)
+3. **First - Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0451f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0451t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **104–32** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Augustine — primary (person)
+- Brooks — primary (person)
+- Kagan — primary (person)
+- King — primary (person)
+- M. Washington — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-22** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-23** Hearing 2/12 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2025-02-10** Hearing canceled
+- **2025-02-10** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-02-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `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 Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-03** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-05** Hearing canceled
+- **2025-03-05** Hearing 3/19 at 2:15 p.m.
+- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Senate Concurs House Amendments
+- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
+- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 327 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f462eca-fee4-4f8b-b76f-f7dac61e3e42`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+