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Bill	Local School Systems - Equivalent Access Standards - Digital Tools (Equivalent and Nonvisual Access Accountability Act for K-12 Education)	Local School Systems - Equivalent Access Standards - Digital Tools (Equivalent and Nonvisual Access Accountability Act for K-12 Education)	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2022	SB 617	Maryland SB 617 (2022)	bill		enacted	Beidle Ferguson Hayes Hettleman Jackson Jennings Klausmeier Lam Waldstreicher Zucker	4	18	3	2022-02-02	2022-04-21	openstates	ocd-bill/86a3ce35-6597-4325-9481-c55cfb39ed86	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0617?ys=2022RS&search=True	d6ae090863f61527b99a4438b3c3186ce7fac94777355c30de698f0e3ce825bb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 617 (2022) — Local School Systems - Equivalent Access Standards - Digital Tools (Equivalent and Nonvisual Access Accountability Act for K-12 Education)

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Local School Systems - Equivalent Access Standards - Digital Tools (Equivalent and Nonvisual Access Accountability Act for K-12 Education) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled - Local School Systems - Equivalent Access Standards - Digital Tools (Equivalent and Nonvisual Access Accountability Act for K-12 Education) (committee substitute) — source
3. First - Local School Systems - Equivalent Access Standards - Digital Tools (Nonvisual Access Accountability Act for K-12 Education) (committee substitute) — source
4. Third - Local School Systems - Equivalent Access Standards - Digital Tools (Equivalent and Nonvisual Access Accountability Act for K-12 Education) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 44–0 (pass) · upper
• On third reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading (Amend) — 135–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Beidle — primary (person)
• Ferguson — primary (person)
• Hayes — primary (person)
• Hettleman — primary (person)
• Jackson — primary (person)
• Jennings — primary (person)
• Klausmeier — primary (person)
• Lam — primary (person)
• Waldstreicher — primary (person)
• Zucker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-02 First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2022-02-03 Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2022-03-01 Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-02 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-02 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2022-03-04 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2022-03-07 Referred Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2022-03-08 Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2022-03-09 Hearing canceled
• 2022-03-09 Hearing 3/24 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2022-04-07 Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-08 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-08 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2022-04-08 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2022-04-09 Senate Concurs House Amendments
• 2022-04-09 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2022-04-09 Passed Enrolled
• 2022-04-21 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 215 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/86a3ce35-6597-4325-9481-c55cfb39ed86. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).