---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Sign Language Interpreters Act"
description: "Maryland Sign Language Interpreters Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 260"
citation: "Maryland HB 260 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "D. Jones", "Guyton", "Guzzone", "Healey", "Hill", "Howard", "Kaiser", "Kaufman", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "McCaskill", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pruski", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Simmons", "T. Morgan", "Taveras", "White", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-25"
last_action: "2023-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8f260bd-5f6a-4a65-8123-7e61d47c5489"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0260?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "81a9deeb799617b3679abb79ca10de9217ac3debdcf721339b07e398855d4bb7"
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 260 (2023) — Maryland Sign Language Interpreters Act

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Sign Language Interpreters Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_270_hb0260t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Sign Language Interpreters Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0260f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Sign Language Interpreters Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0260t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Healey — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Pruski — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)
- T. Morgan — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-25** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-10** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2023-05-03** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 270 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b8f260bd-5f6a-4a65-8123-7e61d47c5489`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).