NFBMD has a number of legislative priorities for the 2025 Maryland legislative session. We seek to educate the members of the General Assembly on issues of importance to the blind. Each year, we visit the Maryland General Assembly early in the legislative session to educate our elected officials on our priorities. This year, though we are primarily focusing on three priorities during our NFBMD Day in Annapolis, we are also strongly advocating for three additional priorities throughout this session. Our primary priorities this session include:
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Increasing the property tax exemption for blind home-owners (Sen. King and Del. Attar)
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Prohibiting discrimination related to the operation of autonomous vehicles (Sen. Love)
Three additional priorities are nonetheless very important to us. They include:
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Accessible paperless ballot return for Vote by Mail for voters with disabilities (House Ways and Means and Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committees)
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Tactile and Braille flags for veteran cemeteries (Sen. Simonaire and Del. Kaiser)
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Establishment of a grant program for service animal training (Sen. Simonaire and Del. Lehman)
For your convenience we combined all the fact sheets into a single document.
We are seeking your support for our legislative priorities. Thank you for your support of Maryland’s blind and low vision community.
Please don’t hesitate to contact NFBMD President Ronza Othman at President@nfbmd.org or at 443-426-4110 with questions or for more information.