---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation - Veterans and Military Service Members and Spouses - Occupational Licenses"
description: "Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation - Veterans and Military Service Members and Spouses - Occupational Licenses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 852"
citation: "Maryland SB 852 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business Regulation and Occupations", "Armed Forces", "Labor", "Licensing", "and Regulation", "Department of", "Licenses", "Spouses", "Time", "Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Griffith"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5379ce3b-1411-451b-9b19-bb07c2ed8721"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB852&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "3d2cbc4074f03e4ee114bcd344ee3e07fff22594413477455792d2bfd4b8e60e"
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 852 (2019) — Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation - Veterans and Military Service Members and Spouses - Occupational Licenses

## 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/sb0852f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Griffith — primary (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Ellis — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Reassigned to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2019-02-08** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Favorable with Amendments {394530/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-14** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-14** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-22** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 312 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5379ce3b-1411-451b-9b19-bb07c2ed8721`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).