---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study"
description: "Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 325"
citation: "Maryland HB 325 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atterbeary", "Boyce", "Ebersole", "Fair", "Feldmark", "Lehman", "Mireku-North", "Palakovich Carr", "Patterson", "Pena-Melnyk", "Roberson", "Roberts", "Simmons", "Vogel", "Wells", "Wilkins", "Wims", "Wu", "Young"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-10"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cbcd8406-a7e4-4de9-9849-2d5882031441"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0325?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "73c345258bc6dd3b2c12be0ca47625fe490a36dae1d42056707527ead9a82ccf"
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 325 (2025) — Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_328_hb0325e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0325e.pdf)
3. **First - Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0325f.pdf)
4. **Third - Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0325t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **114–24** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **99–31** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Atterbeary — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Ebersole — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Mireku-North — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Roberson — primary (person)
- Roberts — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)
- Vogel — primary (person)
- Wells — primary (person)
- Wilkins — primary (person)
- Wims — primary (person)
- Wu — primary (person)
- Young — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-10** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Motion Special Order until 02/26 (Delegate Szeliga) Adopted
- **2025-02-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-28** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 328 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cbcd8406-a7e4-4de9-9849-2d5882031441`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).