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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Maryland Advisory Council on Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Renaming"
+description: "Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Maryland Advisory Council on Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Renaming"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 439"
+citation: "Maryland HB 439 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["A"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Crutchfield", "Embry", "Fair", "Kaufman", "Kerr", "Lehman", "Lopez", "Patterson", "Ruth", "Schindler", "Schmidt", "Terrasa", "Wells", "Woorman", "Wu"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-22"
+last_action: "2026-05-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc4b8293-6c2a-4c00-a482-8ecd7ceae1ac"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0439?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "905db29cf031791ec084a9c2f3cd4e3c988b12972c12ee753a37934f18304e4e"
+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 439 (2026) — Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Maryland Advisory Council on Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Renaming
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Maryland Advisory Council on Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Renaming** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_655_hb0439t.pdf)
+2. **First - Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Maryland Advisory Council on Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Renaming** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0439f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Maryland Advisory Council on Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Renaming** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0439t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Crutchfield — primary (person)
+- Embry — primary (person)
+- Fair — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Lehman — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- Patterson — primary (person)
+- Ruth — primary (person)
+- Schindler — primary (person)
+- Schmidt — primary (person)
+- Terrasa — primary (person)
+- Wells — primary (person)
+- Woorman — primary (person)
+- Wu — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-22** First Reading Government, Labor, and Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-28** Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-02-23** Favorable with Amendments Report by Government, Labor, and Elections `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-24** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-24** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-02-26** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-02-27** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2026-04-08** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-08** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-08** Second Reading Passed
+- **2026-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-10** Returned Passed
+- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 655 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fc4b8293-6c2a-4c00-a482-8ecd7ceae1ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+