---
type: "Bill"
title: "Advanced Practice Registered Nurses - Certification Requirement and Exceptions"
description: "Advanced Practice Registered Nurses - Certification Requirement and Exceptions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1105"
citation: "Maryland HB 1105 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Guzzone", "J. Long", "Martinez", "Roberts", "Simmons", "Taveras", "Turner", "White Holland", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-07"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e614e248-33f5-4b04-b35e-0c65a398e130"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1105?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "af6a79b3a57e9928402bd82759e77f50d987b9416bfdc214c8d6b65e7a057f0c"
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 1105 (2024) — Advanced Practice Registered Nurses - Certification Requirement and Exceptions

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Advanced Practice Registered Nurses - Certification Requirement and Exceptions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_890_hb1105t.pdf)
2. **First - Advanced Practice Registered Nurses - Certification Requirement and Exceptions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1105f.pdf)
3. **Third - Advanced Practice Registered Nurses - Certification Requirement and Exceptions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1105t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- J. Long — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Roberts — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Turner — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-07** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-13** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-13** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-13** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-13** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-14** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-18** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-01** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 890 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e614e248-33f5-4b04-b35e-0c65a398e130`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).