---
type: "Bill"
title: "Real Estate Commission - Continuing Education Requirements - Alterations"
description: "Real Estate Commission - Continuing Education Requirements - Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 972"
citation: "Maryland HB 972 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2ff846f-6066-4f75-b80c-4167bc14f3e0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0972?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "eb622f4c8ead3ee2e9f04778ba21c590d52d3c12e5fb1987a228e4f25c52511d"
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 972 (2025) — Real Estate Commission - Continuing Education Requirements - Alterations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Real Estate Commission - Continuing Education Requirements - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_397_hb0972e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Real Estate Commission - Continuing Education Requirements - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0972e.pdf)
3. **First - Real Estate Commission - Continuing Education Requirements - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0972f.pdf)
4. **Third - Real Estate Commission - Continuing Education Requirements - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0972t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **126–13** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **133–2** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **42–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- A. Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 397 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a2ff846f-6066-4f75-b80c-4167bc14f3e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).