---
type: "Bill"
title: "Primary and Secondary Education - Certificated School Personnel - Training Requirement"
description: "Primary and Secondary Education - Certificated School Personnel - Training Requirement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 920"
citation: "Maryland HB 920 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Continuing Education", "Counties", "Death", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "State Board of", "Licenses", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Rules and Regulations", "Students", "Teachers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fraser-Hidalgo and Pena-Melnyk"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-06"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd6689d3-5176-4a62-8256-2a170200afcf"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB920&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "95ddac661bd21f7d9e46703fca10b33dd7538aa9789b2188d4918db00232400d"
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 920 (2017) — Primary and Secondary Education - Certificated School Personnel - Training Requirement

## 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/hb0920f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Fraser-Hidalgo and Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-06** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-10** Favorable with Amendments {865264/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-14** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-15** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable with Amendments {504230/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 335 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd6689d3-5176-4a62-8256-2a170200afcf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).