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type: "Bill"
title: "Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025"
description: "Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 455"
citation: "Maryland HB 455 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["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"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-20"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ca24b23-fe17-4a51-a229-68e2ef10bf56"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0455?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "13cef0b4c3de25ad1c9b83878e09dce24841452ecbd0e9a03f130ab47576ac08"
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 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](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_252_hb0455t.pdf)
2. **First - Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0455f.pdf)
3. **Third - Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0455t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1340** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ca24b23-fe17-4a51-a229-68e2ef10bf56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).