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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: "SB 85"
+citation: "Maryland SB 85 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["M. Jackson", "Simonaire"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-09-02"
+last_action: "2025-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c2b799a-d90b-45ab-b580-322f69cca8e7"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0085?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "222a2447d622fcd417cde08ac5f5209672f927541e92f5e5598a53dea0d862bd"
+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 85 (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_251_sb0085t.pdf)
+2. **First - Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0085f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0085t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- M. Jackson — primary (person)
+- Simonaire — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-09-02** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2025-01-08** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-02-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-20** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-02-26** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-27** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-11** Hearing 3/18 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-28** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-01** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 251 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c2b799a-d90b-45ab-b580-322f69cca8e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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