---
type: "Bill"
title: "Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Maryland Advisory Council on Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Renaming"
description: "Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Maryland Advisory Council on Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Renaming"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 439"
citation: "Maryland HB 439 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Crutchfield", "Embry", "Fair", "Kaufman", "Kerr", "Lehman", "Lopez", "Patterson", "Ruth", "Schindler", "Schmidt", "Terrasa", "Wells", "Woorman", "Wu"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-22"
last_action: "2026-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc4b8293-6c2a-4c00-a482-8ecd7ceae1ac"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0439?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "905db29cf031791ec084a9c2f3cd4e3c988b12972c12ee753a37934f18304e4e"
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 439 (2026) — Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Maryland Advisory Council on Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Renaming

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Maryland Advisory Council on Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Renaming** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_655_hb0439t.pdf)
2. **First - Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Maryland Advisory Council on Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Renaming** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0439f.pdf)
3. **Third - Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Maryland Advisory Council on Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Renaming** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0439t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- Embry — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- Schindler — primary (person)
- Schmidt — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- Wells — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)
- Wu — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-22** First Reading Government, Labor, and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-28** Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-02-23** Favorable with Amendments Report by Government, Labor, and Elections `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-24** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-24** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-02-26** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-02-27** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **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
- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 655 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fc4b8293-6c2a-4c00-a482-8ecd7ceae1ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).