---
type: "Bill"
title: "Occupational and Professional Licensing - Service Members, Veterans, and Military Spouses - Revisions to Reciprocity Requirements"
description: "Occupational and Professional Licensing - Service Members, Veterans, and Military Spouses - Revisions to Reciprocity Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 349"
citation: "Maryland HB 349 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adams", "Administration", "Anderton", "Arentz", "Arikan", "Beitzel", "Brooks", "Buckel", "C. Jackson", "C. Watson", "Cardin", "Charkoudian", "Charles", "Chisholm", "Ciliberti", "Clark", "Corderman", "Cox", "Crosby", "Dumais", "Fennell", "Ghrist", "Griffith", "Hartman", "Howard", "Impallaria", "Jacobs", "Kipke", "Kittleman", "Krebs", "Long", "M. Fisher", "Malone", "Mangione", "Mautz", "McComas", "McKay", "Metzgar", "Miller", "Morgan", "Otto", "Parrott", "Pippy", "Qi", "Reilly", "Rogers", "Rose", "Saab", "Shoemaker", "Speaker", "Szeliga", "Turner", "Valderrama", "Walker", "Wilson", "Wivell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-01-20"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5fada498-feb1-48bb-a7e4-0a1e9bcc6f5d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0349?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "48df0400db5a74d04acf08cf1eae35725808379c14a7ff87b90b8fdc9ae061fd"
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 349 (2020) — Occupational and Professional Licensing - Service Members, Veterans, and Military Spouses - Revisions to Reciprocity Requirements

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Occupational and Professional Licensing - Service Members, Veterans, and Military Spouses - Revisions to Reciprocity Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_176_hb0349t.pdf)
2. **First - Occupational and Professional Licensing - Service Members, Veterans, and Military Spouses - Revisions to Reciprocity Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0349f.pdf)
3. **Third - Occupational and Professional Licensing - Service Members, Veterans, and Military Spouses - Revisions to Reciprocity Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0349t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Adams — primary (person)
- Administration — primary (person)
- Anderton — primary (person)
- Arentz — primary (person)
- Arikan — primary (person)
- Beitzel — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- Buckel — primary (person)
- C. Jackson — primary (person)
- C. Watson — primary (person)
- Cardin — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Charles — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Ciliberti — primary (person)
- Clark — primary (person)
- Corderman — primary (person)
- Cox — primary (person)
- Crosby — primary (person)
- Dumais — primary (person)
- Fennell — primary (person)
- Ghrist — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)
- Hartman — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Impallaria — primary (person)
- Jacobs — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Kittleman — primary (person)
- Krebs — primary (person)
- Long — primary (person)
- M. Fisher — primary (person)
- Malone — primary (person)
- Mangione — primary (person)
- Mautz — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- McKay — primary (person)
- Metzgar — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Morgan — primary (person)
- Otto — primary (person)
- Parrott — primary (person)
- Pippy — primary (person)
- Qi — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- Rose — primary (person)
- Saab — primary (person)
- Shoemaker — primary (person)
- Speaker — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Turner — primary (person)
- Valderrama — primary (person)
- Walker — primary (person)
- Wilson — primary (person)
- Wivell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-20** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-02-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-02-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-02-21** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-16** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 176 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5fada498-feb1-48bb-a7e4-0a1e9bcc6f5d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).