---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Occupations - Clinical Marriage and Family Therapists - Reciprocal Licensure Requirements"
description: "Health Occupations - Clinical Marriage and Family Therapists - Reciprocal Licensure Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 628"
citation: "Maryland HB 628 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["S. Johnson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-25"
last_action: "2024-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23add0bd-10d0-4738-ad70-a03e67054176"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0628?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "b60bd28fc0bbde07b3d696f8b35ed2e96b86706cb27a253a8856288f985320d0"
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 628 (2024) — Health Occupations - Clinical Marriage and Family Therapists - Reciprocal Licensure Requirements

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health Occupations - Clinical Marriage and Family Therapists - Reciprocal Licensure Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_45_hb0628t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Occupations - Clinical Marriage and Family Therapists - Reciprocal Licensure Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0628f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Occupations - Clinical Marriage and Family Therapists - Reciprocal Licensure Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0628t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **43–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- S. Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-25** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-26** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-02-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-03-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 45 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23add0bd-10d0-4738-ad70-a03e67054176`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).