---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Board of Public Accountancy - Firm Permits - Attest Services"
description: "State Board of Public Accountancy - Firm Permits - Attest Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 513"
citation: "Maryland SB 513 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business Regulation and Occupations", "Commerce and Business", "Committees and Commissions", "Licenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b7a865d-1e63-47e3-94e4-21e9a74c666b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB513&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "f87ecb907c3ce8d82557bf311213581e641bc52a4d023c889ae89a7a23c48c66"
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 513 (2019) — State Board of Public Accountancy - Firm Permits - Attest Services

## 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/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0513f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ellis — primary (person)
- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-25** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-26** Favorable with Amendments {484632/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-02-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-01** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 330 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1b7a865d-1e63-47e3-94e4-21e9a74c666b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).