---
type: "Bill"
title: "General Provisions - Commemorative Months - Muslim American Heritage and Jewish American Heritage Months"
description: "General Provisions - Commemorative Months - Muslim American Heritage and Jewish American Heritage Months"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 661"
citation: "Maryland HB 661 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Solomon", "Wolek"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2026-01-30"
last_action: "2026-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb378e8c-a768-45b2-9f1a-3594a2ede730"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0661?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "e0c423564f3abebe176f2130640a3176437f360e87de1823be86a081e2d2e8a3"
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 661 (2026) — General Provisions - Commemorative Months - Muslim American Heritage and Jewish American Heritage Months

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - General Provisions - Commemorative Months - Muslim American Heritage and Jewish American Heritage Months** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_358_hb0661t.pdf)
2. **First - General Provisions - Commemorative Months - Muslim American Heritage and Jewish American Heritage Months** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0661f.pdf)
3. **Third - General Provisions - Commemorative Months - Muslim American Heritage and Jewish American Heritage Months** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0661t.pdf)

## Votes

- Floor Amendment McKay /993227/1 — **19–26** (fail) · upper
- On Third Reading — **126–7** (pass) · lower
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **33–10** (pass) · upper
- Floor Amendment Muse /203629/1 — **19–25** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Solomon — primary (person)
- Wolek — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-30** First Reading Government, Labor, and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-16** Hearing 3/17 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-03-21** Favorable Report by Government, Labor, and Elections `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-21** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-23** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-23** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-06** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-07** Floor Amendment {
- **2026-04-07** Motion Special Order until 4/8 (Senator Muse) Rejected
- **2026-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2026-04-08** Motion Special Order until 4/10 (Senator Feldman) Adopted
- **2026-04-10** Floor Amendment {
- **2026-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2026-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 358 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb378e8c-a768-45b2-9f1a-3594a2ede730`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).