---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education - Initial Teacher Certification - Requirements"
description: "Education - Initial Teacher Certification - Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 945"
citation: "Maryland HB 945 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ebersole", "Fair", "Palakovich Carr", "Patterson", "Vogel", "Wilkins", "Wu"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-02-02"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b24002d4-e8e4-43a5-a7b0-f24852a82540"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0945?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "65476ccabe9819642617214c36cf16db6ec46f4c2c88e380ef3e642c46e4bf04"
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 945 (2024) — Education - Initial Teacher Certification - Requirements

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Education - Initial Teacher Certification - Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_188_hb0945t.pdf)
2. **First - Education - Initial Teacher Certification - Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0945f.pdf)
3. **Third - Education - Initial Teacher Certification - Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0945t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ebersole — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Vogel — primary (person)
- Wilkins — primary (person)
- Wu — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-02** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 188 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b24002d4-e8e4-43a5-a7b0-f24852a82540`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).