---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Government - Legal and Employee Holiday - Juneteenth National Independence Day"
description: "State Government - Legal and Employee Holiday - Juneteenth National Independence Day"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 227"
citation: "Maryland HB 227 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Belcastro", "Bhandari", "Carr", "Cullison", "Harrison", "Hill", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kaiser", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Landis", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "Saab", "Sample-Hughes"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-13"
last_action: "2022-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ca2ee8c-daee-4abb-a561-73a9abfa4491"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0227?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "448cc9c94bce57f4e3cb1ca3bc7a33d16ef6101d1711b2b0f0df3337f191dbb9"
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 227 (2022) — State Government - Legal and Employee Holiday - Juneteenth National Independence Day

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Government - Legal and Employee Holiday - Juneteenth National Independence Day** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_64_hb0227t.pdf)
2. **First - State Government – Legal and Employee Holiday – Juneteenth National Independence Day** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0227f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Government - Legal and Employee Holiday - Juneteenth National Independence Day** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0227t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **130–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Belcastro — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Carr — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Harrison — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Johnson — primary (person)
- K. Young — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Landis — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Pendergrass — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Saab — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-13** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Hearing 2/01 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2022-01-25** Hearing canceled
- **2022-01-25** Hearing 2/01 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-02-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-02-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-18** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-18** Hearing 3/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-31** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-31** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-31** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2022-04-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 64 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7ca2ee8c-daee-4abb-a561-73a9abfa4491`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).