---
type: "Bill"
title: "Accountants - Licensed Out-of-State Practice Privileges - Qualifications"
description: "Accountants - Licensed Out-of-State Practice Privileges - Qualifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 887"
citation: "Maryland HB 887 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson", "Arentz", "Fraser-Hidalgo", "Howard", "Valderrama", "Wivell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45901e12-8a2c-4827-9c23-decded993964"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0887?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "a0f120928391ed1d5b25e45452b1aac2c5060f1073b88015b6f05219330f5b75"
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 887 (2025) — Accountants - Licensed Out-of-State Practice Privileges - Qualifications

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Accountants - Licensed Out-of-State Practice Privileges - Qualifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_407_hb0887t.pdf)
2. **First - Accountants - Reciprocal Licenses - Qualifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0887f.pdf)
3. **Third - Accountants - Licensed Out-of-State Practice Privileges - Qualifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0887t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Johnson — primary (person)
- Arentz — primary (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Valderrama — primary (person)
- Wivell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-19** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-20** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-20** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-02-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-25** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-26** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 407 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/45901e12-8a2c-4827-9c23-decded993964`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).