---
type: "Bill"
title: "County Boards of Education - Equal Access to Public Services for Individuals With Limited English Proficiency"
description: "County Boards of Education - Equal Access to Public Services for Individuals With Limited English Proficiency"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1144"
citation: "Maryland HB 1144 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Administrative Agencies", "Census", "Committees and Commissions", "Communications", "Data", "Demographics", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "Jurisdiction", "Language", "Literacy", "Open Government", "Public Information", "Public Schools", "Residency"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lehman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be2a4a75-aefa-4d4f-9111-43d4237befaf"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1144&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "a9808f0d0ef84c9d26b62b06a27e04d722b4696f848352f4def519a56d2a9dfd"
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 1144 (2019) — County Boards of Education - Equal Access to Public Services for Individuals With Limited English Proficiency

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb1144f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **36–9** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **102–35** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **102–38** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lehman — primary (person)
- Acevero — cosponsor (person)
- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Boyce — cosponsor (person)
- Charkoudian — cosponsor (person)
- Charles — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Ivey — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Palakovich Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Proctor — cosponsor (person)
- Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Solomon — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
- W. Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Wells — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {745161/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (102-38) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable with Amendments {654335/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (36-9) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (102-35) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 564 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/be2a4a75-aefa-4d4f-9111-43d4237befaf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).