---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Deaf Culture Digital Library - Funding and Budget Submission"
description: "Maryland Deaf Culture Digital Library - Funding and Budget Submission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 678"
citation: "Maryland HB 678 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Bartlett", "Boyce", "Charkoudian", "Crutchfield", "Fair", "Foley", "Kaiser", "Kaufman", "McComas", "Pasteur", "Roberson", "Roberts", "Rogers", "Sample-Hughes", "Spiegel", "Wolek", "Woorman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5289f0a5-079d-4f10-9c44-97b9592bb539"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0678?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "fbfb1156064560690594e1be071b6f55aced07c30027c4a9e16f4d65660ec46a"
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 678 (2025) — Maryland Deaf Culture Digital Library - Funding and Budget Submission

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Deaf Culture Digital Library - Funding and Budget Submission** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_325_hb0678t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Deaf Culture Digital Library - Funding and Budget Submission** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0678f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Deaf Culture Digital Library - Funding and Budget Submission** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0678t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **132–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Acevero — primary (person)
- Bartlett — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Foley — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Roberson — primary (person)
- Roberts — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
- Spiegel — primary (person)
- Wolek — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 325 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5289f0a5-079d-4f10-9c44-97b9592bb539`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).