---
type: "Bill"
title: "General Provisions – Commemorative Days – Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day"
description: "General Provisions – Commemorative Days – Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 479"
citation: "Maryland HB 479 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Crosby", "D. Barnes", "Fennell", "Howell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-21"
last_action: "2022-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce29b757-1363-4fcb-8095-c0a15bf1d5eb"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0479?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2ee15e9d5e5a7bc93e8a15d7c2b995d48ed8f58b2e21d5a51cea88c0d36a47c6"
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 479 (2022) — General Provisions – Commemorative Days – Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - General Provisions – Commemorative Days – Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_68_hb0479t.pdf)
2. **First - General Provisions – Commemorative Days – Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0479f.pdf)
3. **Third - General Provisions – Commemorative Days – Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0479t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **131–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Crosby — primary (person)
- D. Barnes — primary (person)
- Fennell — primary (person)
- Howell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-21** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-28** Hearing 3/15 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2022-02-16** Hearing canceled
- **2022-02-16** Hearing 3/15 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-03-17** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-17** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-18** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-01** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-01** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2022-04-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 68 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ce29b757-1363-4fcb-8095-c0a15bf1d5eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).