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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation - Veterans and Military Service Members and Spouses - Occupational Licenses"
+description: "Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation - Veterans and Military Service Members and Spouses - Occupational Licenses"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 852"
+citation: "Maryland SB 852 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Business Regulation and Occupations", "Armed Forces", "Labor", "Licensing", "and Regulation", "Department of", "Licenses", "Spouses", "Time", "Veterans"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Griffith"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-04"
+last_action: "2019-04-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5379ce3b-1411-451b-9b19-bb07c2ed8721"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB852&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "3d2cbc4074f03e4ee114bcd344ee3e07fff22594413477455792d2bfd4b8e60e"
+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 SB 852 (2019) — Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation - Veterans and Military Service Members and Spouses - Occupational Licenses
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0852f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Griffith — primary (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Ellis — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hester — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-04** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-07** Reassigned to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
+- **2019-02-08** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-12** Favorable with Amendments {394530/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-14** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-14** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-22** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
+- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 312 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5379ce3b-1411-451b-9b19-bb07c2ed8721`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+