---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Board of Public Accountancy - Firm Permits - Attest Services"
description: "State Board of Public Accountancy - Firm Permits - Attest Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1081"
citation: "Maryland HB 1081 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business Regulation and Occupations", "Accountants", "Commerce and Business", "Committees and Commissions", "Licenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charkoudian"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e25b44ce-659d-4438-b13e-c54226b27903"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1081&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "e1d7f490c4b3ef01ff012691b5b5773dc20ae2d09661f164b60874af63a9f35f"
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 1081 (2019) — State Board of Public Accountancy - Firm Permits - Attest Services

## 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/hb/hb1081f.pdf)

## Votes

- No motion given — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Barve — cosponsor (person)
- Branch — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Carey — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Qi — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** Hearing 3/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {423292/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 329 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e25b44ce-659d-4438-b13e-c54226b27903`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).