---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Commission of Real Estate Appraisers, Appraisal Management Companies, and Home Inspectors - Supervision of Appraiser Trainees"
description: "State Commission of Real Estate Appraisers, Appraisal Management Companies, and Home Inspectors - Supervision of Appraiser Trainees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 140"
citation: "Maryland HB 140 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business Regulation and Occupations", "Appraisals", "Committees and Commissions", "Grants", "Investments", "Job Training", "Licenses", "Real Estate", "Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29452b4e-94ca-4f87-a049-ee0b07b56063"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB140&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "e0b3b2513b6d1b4f7f1bd07d8efeefe17c72f3f48b44e5c49114646906e0f8ee"
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 140 (2017) — State Commission of Real Estate Appraisers, Appraisal Management Companies, and Home Inspectors - Supervision of Appraiser Trainees

## 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/hb0140f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (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.
- **2017-02-07** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-10** Third Reading Passed (132-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-15** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 252 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/29452b4e-94ca-4f87-a049-ee0b07b56063`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).