republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2025/hb-455.md

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Bill	Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025	Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2025	HB 455	Maryland HB 455 (2025)	bill		enacted	Alston Attar Bagnall Bhandari Cardin Charkoudian Chisholm Cullison Fennell Foley Guzzone Hill Hutchinson Kaiser Kaufman Kerr Kipke Lopez M. Morgan Martinez McComas Palakovich Carr Pena-Melnyk Reilly Rosenberg S. Johnson Simmons Spiegel Szeliga Taveras Taylor Valderrama White Holland Williams Wims Woods Woorman	3	12	1	2025-01-20	2025-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/5ca24b23-fe17-4a51-a229-68e2ef10bf56	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0455?ys=2025RS&search=True	13cef0b4c3de25ad1c9b83878e09dce24841452ecbd0e9a03f130ab47576ac08	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 455 (2025) — Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025 (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025 (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 134–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alston — primary (person)
• Attar — primary (person)
• Bagnall — primary (person)
• Bhandari — primary (person)
• Cardin — primary (person)
• Charkoudian — primary (person)
• Chisholm — primary (person)
• Cullison — primary (person)
• Fennell — primary (person)
• Foley — primary (person)
• Guzzone — primary (person)
• Hill — primary (person)
• Hutchinson — primary (person)
• Kaiser — primary (person)
• Kaufman — primary (person)
• Kerr — primary (person)
• Kipke — primary (person)
• Lopez — primary (person)
• M. Morgan — primary (person)
• Martinez — primary (person)
• McComas — primary (person)
• Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
• Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
• Reilly — primary (person)
• Rosenberg — primary (person)
• S. Johnson — primary (person)
• Simmons — primary (person)
• Spiegel — primary (person)
• Szeliga — primary (person)
• Taveras — primary (person)
• Taylor — primary (person)
• Valderrama — primary (person)
• White Holland — primary (person)
• Williams — primary (person)
• Wims — primary (person)
• Woods — primary (person)
• Woorman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-20 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2025-02-24 Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-25 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-25 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2025-02-27 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-02-28 Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-25 Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-31 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-04-01 Returned Passed
• 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 252 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5ca24b23-fe17-4a51-a229-68e2ef10bf56. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).