---
type: "Bill"
title: "Professional Licensing Portability - Members of the Foreign Service and Spouses"
description: "Professional Licensing Portability - Members of the Foreign Service and Spouses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1120"
citation: "Maryland HB 1120 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson", "Adams", "Arentz", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Fennell", "Howard", "Lehman", "Nkongolo", "Pippy", "Queen", "Rogers", "Rose", "Wivell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-02-11"
last_action: "2026-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9218202d-4473-4205-bc4e-2b2da627f0d6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1120?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "b690b505dfae75dd84f915df68a3ee103c10fee4373a34dc654b1b2d47abe8b9"
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 1120 (2026) — Professional Licensing Portability - Members of the Foreign Service and Spouses

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Professional Licensing Portability - Members of the Foreign Service and Spouses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_492_hb1120t.pdf)
2. **First - Professional Licensing Portability - Members of the Foreign Service and Spouses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb1120f.pdf)
3. **Third - Professional Licensing Portability - Members of the Foreign Service and Spouses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb1120t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Johnson — primary (person)
- Adams — primary (person)
- Arentz — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Fennell — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Nkongolo — primary (person)
- Pippy — primary (person)
- Queen — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- Rose — primary (person)
- Wivell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-11** First Reading Economic Matters and Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-19** Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m. (Economic Matters)
- **2026-03-03** Hearing canceled (Economic Matters)
- **2026-03-03** Hearing 3/04 at 1:30 p.m. (Economic Matters)
- **2026-03-23** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-23** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-23** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-03-23** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-23** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-10** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-10** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-13** Returned Passed
- **2026-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 492 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9218202d-4473-4205-bc4e-2b2da627f0d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).