republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2018/hb-798.md

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Bill	Visual Impairments - Requirements for Student Vision Screening and Information (Atticus Act)	Visual Impairments - Requirements for Student Vision Screening and Information (Atticus Act)	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2018	HB 798	Maryland HB 798 (2018)	bill	Primary and Secondary Education Public Health Assessments Blind Persons Committees and Commissions Continuing Education Counties Data Disclosure Education Boards of Evidence Examinations Forms Health Health Department of Health Occupations Job Training Licenses Local Government Mandates Medical Assistance Nonprofit Organizations Notices Ophthalmologists Optometrists Parents and Guardians Private Schools Public Information Public Schools Records Reports Students Teachers	enacted	Kittleman	1	14	2	2018-02-01	2018-04-24	openstates	ocd-bill/8b438f9d-4b53-42b0-a39f-7d7d9ce42699	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB798&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs	eafa1cef5bc5f7953e0d3df901df5b7733c6621316eb064259134d870228ddd4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 798 (2018) — Visual Impairments - Requirements for Student Vision Screening and Information (Atticus Act)

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 137–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kittleman — primary (person)
• Barkley — cosponsor (person)
• Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• K. Young — cosponsor (person)
• Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
• Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
• Rose — cosponsor (person)
• Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
• Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
• Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
• Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-01 First Reading Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2018-02-06 Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-03-12 Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-13 Favorable with Amendments {195769/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-13 Floor Amendment {153827/1 (Delegate Kittleman) Adopted amendment-passage
• 2018-03-13 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2018-03-15 Third Reading Passed (137-0) passage
• 2018-03-16 First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2018-04-02 Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-04-03 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-04-03 Second Reading Passed
• 2018-04-04 Third Reading Passed (46-0) passage
• 2018-04-05 Returned Passed
• 2018-04-24 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 311 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8b438f9d-4b53-42b0-a39f-7d7d9ce42699. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).