---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Board of Architects and State Board for Professional Land Surveyors - Membership"
description: "State Board of Architects and State Board for Professional Land Surveyors - Membership"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 77"
citation: "Maryland SB 77 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business Regulation and Occupations", "Architects", "Committees and Commissions", "Higher Education", "Licenses", "Surveyors"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-09-19"
last_action: "2018-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b37aa75-2b1c-405d-92b4-f0bb40d7384d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB77&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "7ab3b28673ad3c8e77b1e11f23e7ceb8892b56d0ba259b01e8226fffc239b881"
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 SB 77 (2018) — State Board of Architects and State Board for Professional Land Surveyors - Membership

## 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/2018RS/bills/sb/sb0077f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Education — cosponsor (person)
- Environmental Affairs Committee (By Request - Departmental - Labor — cosponsor (person)
- Health — cosponsor (person)
- Licensing and Regulation) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-09-19** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-03** Hearing 1/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-01-12** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-12** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-12** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-01-16** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-01-18** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-30** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 46 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b37aa75-2b1c-405d-92b4-f0bb40d7384d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).