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Bill	Institutions of Higher Education - Provision of Menstrual Hygiene Products - Requirement	Institutions of Higher Education - Provision of Menstrual Hygiene Products - Requirement	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2026	HB 457	Maryland HB 457 (2026)	bill		enacted	Allen Coley D. Jones Embry Fair Feldmark Guzzone Hill Ivey Lehman Palakovich Carr Ross Ruth Terrasa Ziegler	3	20	2	2026-01-23	2026-05-26	openstates	ocd-bill/ca90e6ff-3e47-497c-99b4-a97a0fd4467f	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0457?ys=2026RS	01c3f0946ab9b16b70a3a78ae204bf792b1fd50c0beaa633132cf919f75b784d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 457 (2026) — Institutions of Higher Education - Provision of Menstrual Hygiene Products - Requirement

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Institutions of Higher Education - Provision of Menstrual Hygiene Products - Requirement (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Institutions of Higher Education - Provision of Menstrual Hygiene Products - Requirement (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Institutions of Higher Education - Provision of Menstrual Hygiene Products - Requirement (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 106–30 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 24–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Allen — primary (person)
• Coley — primary (person)
• D. Jones — primary (person)
• Embry — primary (person)
• Fair — primary (person)
• Feldmark — primary (person)
• Guzzone — primary (person)
• Hill — primary (person)
• Ivey — primary (person)
• Lehman — primary (person)
• Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
• Ross — primary (person)
• Ruth — primary (person)
• Terrasa — primary (person)
• Ziegler — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-23 First Reading Appropriations and Health referral-committee
• 2026-02-09 Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations)
• 2026-02-11 Hearing canceled (Appropriations)
• 2026-02-11 Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations)
• 2026-02-13 Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations) and Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m. (Health)
• 2026-02-13 Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations) and Hearing canceled (Health)
• 2026-03-10 Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-10 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-10 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2026-03-11 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2026-03-12 Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment referral-committee
• 2026-03-15 Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2026-03-24 Hearing canceled
• 2026-03-24 Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
• 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 722 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ca90e6ff-3e47-497c-99b4-a97a0fd4467f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).