republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2026/hb-439.md

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Bill	Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Maryland Advisory Council on Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Renaming	Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Maryland Advisory Council on Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Renaming	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2026	HB 439	Maryland HB 439 (2026)	bill	A	enacted	Crutchfield Embry Fair Kaufman Kerr Lehman Lopez Patterson Ruth Schindler Schmidt Terrasa Wells Woorman Wu	3	13	2	2026-01-22	2026-05-26	openstates	ocd-bill/fc4b8293-6c2a-4c00-a482-8ecd7ceae1ac	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0439?ys=2026RS	905db29cf031791ec084a9c2f3cd4e3c988b12972c12ee753a37934f18304e4e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 439 (2026) — Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Maryland Advisory Council on Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Renaming

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Maryland Advisory Council on Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Renaming (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Maryland Advisory Council on Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Renaming (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Maryland Advisory Council on Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Renaming (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 136–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Crutchfield — primary (person)
• Embry — primary (person)
• Fair — primary (person)
• Kaufman — primary (person)
• Kerr — primary (person)
• Lehman — primary (person)
• Lopez — primary (person)
• Patterson — primary (person)
• Ruth — primary (person)
• Schindler — primary (person)
• Schmidt — primary (person)
• Terrasa — primary (person)
• Wells — primary (person)
• Woorman — primary (person)
• Wu — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-22 First Reading Government, Labor, and Elections referral-committee
• 2026-01-28 Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2026-02-23 Favorable with Amendments Report by Government, Labor, and Elections committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-24 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-24 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2026-02-26 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2026-02-27 Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment referral-committee
• 2026-04-08 Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-04-08 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-04-08 Second Reading Passed
• 2026-04-09 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2026-04-10 Returned Passed
• 2026-05-26 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 655 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fc4b8293-6c2a-4c00-a482-8ecd7ceae1ac. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).