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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Professional Licensing Portability - Members of the Foreign Service and Spouses"
+description: "Professional Licensing Portability - Members of the Foreign Service and Spouses"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 1120"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1120 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson", "Adams", "Arentz", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Fennell", "Howard", "Lehman", "Nkongolo", "Pippy", "Queen", "Rogers", "Rose", "Wivell"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-02-11"
+last_action: "2026-05-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9218202d-4473-4205-bc4e-2b2da627f0d6"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1120?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "b690b505dfae75dd84f915df68a3ee103c10fee4373a34dc654b1b2d47abe8b9"
+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 1120 (2026) — Professional Licensing Portability - Members of the Foreign Service and Spouses
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Professional Licensing Portability - Members of the Foreign Service and Spouses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_492_hb1120t.pdf)
+2. **First - Professional Licensing Portability - Members of the Foreign Service and Spouses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb1120f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Professional Licensing Portability - Members of the Foreign Service and Spouses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb1120t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- A. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Adams — primary (person)
+- Arentz — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Chisholm — primary (person)
+- Fennell — primary (person)
+- Howard — primary (person)
+- Lehman — primary (person)
+- Nkongolo — primary (person)
+- Pippy — primary (person)
+- Queen — primary (person)
+- Rogers — primary (person)
+- Rose — primary (person)
+- Wivell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-02-11** First Reading Economic Matters and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-19** Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m. (Economic Matters)
+- **2026-03-03** Hearing canceled (Economic Matters)
+- **2026-03-03** Hearing 3/04 at 1:30 p.m. (Economic Matters)
+- **2026-03-23** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-23** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-23** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-03-23** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-23** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-04-10** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-10** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-10** Second Reading Passed
+- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-13** Returned Passed
+- **2026-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 492 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9218202d-4473-4205-bc4e-2b2da627f0d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+