---
type: "Bill"
title: "Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025"
description: "Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 85"
citation: "Maryland SB 85 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Jackson", "Simonaire"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-09-02"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c2b799a-d90b-45ab-b580-322f69cca8e7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0085?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "222a2447d622fcd417cde08ac5f5209672f927541e92f5e5598a53dea0d862bd"
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 SB 85 (2025) — Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_251_sb0085t.pdf)
2. **First - Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0085f.pdf)
3. **Third - Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0085t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- M. Jackson — primary (person)
- Simonaire — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-02** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-20** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-26** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-27** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Hearing 3/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 251 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c2b799a-d90b-45ab-b580-322f69cca8e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).