---
type: "Bill"
title: "Occupational and Professional Licensing Boards, Commissions, and Regulatory Entities - Notifications of Applicants, Licensees, Registrants, and Permit Holders"
description: "Occupational and Professional Licensing Boards, Commissions, and Regulatory Entities - Notifications of Applicants, Licensees, Registrants, and Permit Holders"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 138"
citation: "Maryland HB 138 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business Regulation and Occupations", "Committees and Commissions", "Electronic Communication", "License Commissioners", "Boards of", "Licenses", "Notices", "Postal Service", "Registration", "Rules and Regulations", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6bbd10d8-907d-457a-b9a0-a8fa8e15cdb8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB138&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "affedbe321b2fdc9824c51c7c04f54f9c68166e1830ecce5c399653bdd826b2b"
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 138 (2017) — Occupational and Professional Licensing Boards, Commissions, and Regulatory Entities - Notifications of Applicants, Licensees, Registrants, and Permit Holders

## 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/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0138f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Economic Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Labor — cosponsor (person)
- Licensing and Regulation) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** Hearing 1/31 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Favorable with Amendments {513199/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-23** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-24** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2017-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {594838/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 247 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6bbd10d8-907d-457a-b9a0-a8fa8e15cdb8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).