---
type: "Bill"
title: "Real Estate Appraisers - Licensure and Certification - Qualifications"
description: "Real Estate Appraisers - Licensure and Certification - Qualifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1021"
citation: "Maryland HB 1021 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holmes", "Taylor"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff48e6c4-844b-40c2-9d8f-5ba7c5b0f080"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1021?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "66f47153f279a3777c6d6e357a6f05f58d0bf3c5e65f26818d3ce4d927c2b9bc"
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 1021 (2025) — Real Estate Appraisers - Licensure and Certification - Qualifications

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Real Estate Appraisers - Licensure and Certification - Qualifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_341_hb1021t.pdf)
2. **First - Real Estate Appraisers - Licensure and Certification - Qualifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1021f.pdf)
3. **Third - Real Estate Appraisers - Licensure and Certification - Qualifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1021t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **135–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Holmes — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 341 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff48e6c4-844b-40c2-9d8f-5ba7c5b0f080`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).