republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2020/hb-1444.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Discrimination - Definition of Race - Hair Texture and Hairstyles	Discrimination - Definition of Race - Hair Texture and Hairstyles	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2020	HB 1444	Maryland HB 1444 (2020)	bill		enacted	Acevero Anderson Attar Atterbeary Bagnall Barron Bartlett Barve Boyce Bridges Brooks C. Branch C. Jackson Charkoudian Charles Conaway Crutchfield D. Barnes D.M. Davis Feldmark Harrison Healey Henson Hettleman Ivey J. Lewis Kelly Kerr Lierman Lopez Love Luedtke Moon Mosby Pena-Melnyk Proctor Queen R. Lewis Sample-Hughes Shetty Smith Solomon Stewart Turner W. Fisher Washington Wells Wilkins Williams	3	12	1	2020-02-07	2020-05-08	openstates	ocd-bill/83d3c4d3-38a3-4226-882b-e067f61fb1dc	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1444?ys=2020RS&search=True	a75e2344761cdf90a2886b4822730d8d339248e9ce0e35aeb3df79ce20bb0d8e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 1444 (2020) — Discrimination - Definition of Race - Hair Texture and Hairstyles

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Discrimination - Definition of Race - Hair Texture and Hairstyles (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Discrimination - Definition of Race - Hair Texture and Hairstyles (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Discrimination - Definition of Race - Hair Texture and Hairstyles (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 128–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Acevero — primary (person)
• Anderson — primary (person)
• Attar — primary (person)
• Atterbeary — primary (person)
• Bagnall — primary (person)
• Barron — primary (person)
• Bartlett — primary (person)
• Barve — primary (person)
• Boyce — primary (person)
• Bridges — primary (person)
• Brooks — primary (person)
• C. Branch — primary (person)
• C. Jackson — primary (person)
• Charkoudian — primary (person)
• Charles — primary (person)
• Conaway — primary (person)
• Crutchfield — primary (person)
• D. Barnes — primary (person)
• D.M. Davis — primary (person)
• Feldmark — primary (person)
• Harrison — primary (person)
• Healey — primary (person)
• Henson — primary (person)
• Hettleman — primary (person)
• Ivey — primary (person)
• J. Lewis — primary (person)
• Kelly — primary (person)
• Kerr — primary (person)
• Lierman — primary (person)
• Lopez — primary (person)
• Love — primary (person)
• Luedtke — primary (person)
• Moon — primary (person)
• Mosby — primary (person)
• Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
• Proctor — primary (person)
• Queen — primary (person)
• R. Lewis — primary (person)
• Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
• Shetty — primary (person)
• Smith — primary (person)
• Solomon — primary (person)
• Stewart — primary (person)
• Turner — primary (person)
• W. Fisher — primary (person)
• Washington — primary (person)
• Wells — primary (person)
• Wilkins — primary (person)
• Williams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-07 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2020-02-10 Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2020-03-13 Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-13 Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-14 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-15 Referred Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
• 2020-03-16 Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-16 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-16 Second Reading Passed
• 2020-03-16 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-17 Returned Passed
• 2020-05-08 Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 473 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/83d3c4d3-38a3-4226-882b-e067f61fb1dc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).