---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program - Account Clarifications"
description: "Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program - Account Clarifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 448"
citation: "Maryland HB 448 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Disabled", "Taxes - Income", "Committees and Commissions", "Disabilities", "Revenue and Taxes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bromwell"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-26"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0fbfcf5-090b-4de8-871b-9cbff6575be5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB448&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "637f49fbdfe61b16882946fb5e3ac7b69eaaa499c7545f3637bba50e604872b8"
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 448 (2017) — Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program - Account Clarifications

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0448f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Bromwell — primary (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-26** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Favorable with Amendments {996786/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-03** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-06** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-23** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-27** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-27** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 132 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c0fbfcf5-090b-4de8-871b-9cbff6575be5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).