---
type: "Bill"
title: "General Assembly - Legislative Committees - Renaming and Legislative Policy Committee Membership"
description: "General Assembly - Legislative Committees - Renaming and Legislative Policy Committee Membership"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 554"
citation: "Maryland HB 554 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Speaker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-27"
last_action: "2026-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/616682b9-d1fc-4765-b70e-e99b59a2eed4"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0554?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "cc03088cf8390acdd2497f865eab074a5ff3ca920a69130c5e8db05714fbc3b5"
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 554 (2026) — General Assembly - Legislative Committees - Renaming and Legislative Policy Committee Membership

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - General Assembly - Legislative Committees - Renaming and Legislative Policy Committee Membership** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_152_hb0554t.pdf)
2. **First - General Assembly - Legislative Committees - Renaming and Legislative Policy Committee Membership** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0554f.pdf)
3. **Third - General Assembly - Legislative Committees - Renaming and Legislative Policy Committee Membership** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0554t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Speaker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-27** First Reading Government, Labor, and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-28** Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-02-23** Favorable Report by Government, Labor, and Elections `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-24** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-24** Second Reading Passed
- **2026-02-26** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-02-27** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-16** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-04-08** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-08** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2026-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2026-04-14** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 152 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/616682b9-d1fc-4765-b70e-e99b59a2eed4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).