---
type: "Bill"
title: "General Provisions – Commemorative Months – Caribbean Heritage Month"
description: "General Provisions – Commemorative Months – Caribbean Heritage Month"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 472"
citation: "Maryland SB 472 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Ethnic Affairs", "Governor", "Holidays and Special Dates", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nathan-Pulliam"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5500b21-6e87-489e-941b-8c7b65b6796b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB472&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "bdb1497d4c71bb781f0fb02e38314aef065a972ab41b7fe71b59822fbadab144"
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 472 (2019) — General Provisions – Commemorative Months – Caribbean Heritage Month

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0472f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nathan-Pulliam — primary (person)
- Augustine — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Ellis — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-25** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** Favorable with Amendments {444234/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-27** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-28** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
- **2019-03-29** Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed (133-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 220 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5500b21-6e87-489e-941b-8c7b65b6796b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).