---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance - Producer Licensing Requirements - Education and Experience"
description: "Insurance - Producer Licensing Requirements - Education and Experience"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 265"
citation: "Maryland HB 265 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Qi"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-12"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e39b16b-e4f3-4b9c-b52d-611808912b8f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0265?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e8507e507c715af2685ec547b2965c6df861225088bdfe32994e8d683d0282ef"
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 265 (2024) — Insurance - Producer Licensing Requirements - Education and Experience

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Insurance - Producer Licensing Requirements - Education and Experience** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_874_hb0265t.pdf)
2. **First - Insurance - Producer Licensing Requirements - Education and Experience** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0265f.pdf)
3. **Third - Insurance - Producer Licensing Requirements - Education and Experience** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0265t.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 265 HB 584 HB 611 HB 702 HB 998 — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Qi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-12** First Reading Economic Matters and Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m. (Economic Matters)
- **2024-02-09** Hearing canceled (Economic Matters)
- **2024-02-09** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m. (Economic Matters)
- **2024-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-14** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 874 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e39b16b-e4f3-4b9c-b52d-611808912b8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).