---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education – Blind and Visually Impaired Students – Textbook Equity"
description: "Education – Blind and Visually Impaired Students – Textbook Equity"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1091"
citation: "Maryland SB 1091 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carozza", "Hettleman", "Kelly", "King", "Ready", "Watson", "West", "Zucker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-02"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cfbfe8a3-256d-4d31-9c2d-c3fa62189a59"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb1091?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "6be223cbc59ee8e5391bc5127a154f8c0b310745600ebbe0331d9cbb61dde51e"
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 1091 (2024) — Education – Blind and Visually Impaired Students – Textbook Equity

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Education – Blind and Visually Impaired Students – Textbook Equity** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_750_sb1091e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Education – Blind and Visually Impaired Students – Textbook Equity** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb1091e.pdf)
3. **First - Education – Blind and Visually Impaired Students – Textbook Equity** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb1091f.pdf)
4. **Third - Education – Blind and Visually Impaired Students – Textbook Equity** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb1091t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Carozza — primary (person)
- Hettleman — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- King — primary (person)
- Ready — primary (person)
- Watson — primary (person)
- West — primary (person)
- Zucker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-02** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** Hearing 2/23 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2024-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-15** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-16** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-27** Hearing canceled
- **2024-03-27** Hearing 3/27 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2024-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-01** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2024-04-04** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2024-04-04** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Watson, Lewis Young and Carozza)
- **2024-04-08** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2024-04-08** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2024-04-08** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Watson, Lewis Young and Carozza)
- **2024-04-08** House Refuses Recede
- **2024-04-08** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Palakovich Carr, Grossman and Mireku-North)
- **2024-04-08** House Refuses Recede
- **2024-04-08** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Palakovich Carr, Grossman and Mireku-North)
- **2024-04-08** Conference Committee Report {
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Conference Committee Report {
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 750 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cfbfe8a3-256d-4d31-9c2d-c3fa62189a59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).