---
type: "Bill"
title: "General Provisions - Commemorative Days - Dashain Day"
description: "General Provisions - Commemorative Days - Dashain Day"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 967"
citation: "Maryland HB 967 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "Bhandari", "Jackson", "Lopez"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-10"
last_action: "2023-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86420d58-94e4-4cd8-949f-957c7e1de888"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0967?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "84480a38b7f131647e1beb41ddc764f1bef03e2db5ee9313e48d0d5cbc23d30d"
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 967 (2023) — General Provisions - Commemorative Days - Dashain Day

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - General Provisions - Commemorative Days - Dashain Day** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_357_hb0967t.pdf)
2. **First - General Provisions - Commemorative Days - Dashain Day** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0967f.pdf)
3. **Third - General Provisions - Commemorative Days - Dashain Day** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0967t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Jackson — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-10** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Hearing 3/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-17** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-03-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-04-10** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2023-05-03** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 357 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/86420d58-94e4-4cd8-949f-957c7e1de888`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).