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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Board of Professional Landscape Architects - Revisions"
+description: "State Board of Professional Landscape Architects - Revisions"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 485"
+citation: "Maryland HB 485 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["S. Johnson"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2026-01-23"
+last_action: "2026-04-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/466accef-2b66-4d56-897c-7047ad4623f6"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0485?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "81645da19424bbebb333ff558b3d1a5e68c44d8deac3185db1bf864892befee8"
+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 485 (2026) — State Board of Professional Landscape Architects - Revisions
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - State Board of Professional Landscape Architects - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_224_hb0485t.pdf)
+2. **First - State Board of Professional Landscape Architects - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0485f.pdf)
+3. **Third - State Board of Professional Landscape Architects - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0485t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- S. Johnson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-23** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-28** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-02-06** Hearing canceled
+- **2026-02-06** Hearing 2/11 at 2:30 p.m.
+- **2026-02-24** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-26** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-02-27** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2026-04-06** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-07** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2026-04-28** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 224 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/466accef-2b66-4d56-897c-7047ad4623f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+