---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Real Estate Commission - Continuing Education Requirements - Ethics and Professionalism"
description: "State Real Estate Commission - Continuing Education Requirements - Ethics and Professionalism"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1446"
citation: "Maryland HB 1446 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderton", "Arentz", "Carey", "Cox", "Jacobs", "Krebs", "Long", "Malone", "Mautz", "McComas", "Rose", "Shoemaker", "Turner"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-07"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e5878172-2318-415e-8f7d-7994bf704802"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1446?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e2ee5e521235bd941ee611e9c9b1f1e67b23cf2296f5f542ae7295a8088b0193"
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 1446 (2020) — State Real Estate Commission - Continuing Education Requirements - Ethics and Professionalism

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Real Estate Commission - Continuing Education Requirements - Ethics and Professionalism** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_475_hb1446t.pdf)
2. **First - State Real Estate Commission - Continuing Education Requirements - Ethics and Professionalism** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb1446f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Real Estate Commission - Continuing Education Requirements - Ethics and Professionalism** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb1446t.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1446 — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **130–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Anderton — primary (person)
- Arentz — primary (person)
- Carey — primary (person)
- Cox — primary (person)
- Jacobs — primary (person)
- Krebs — primary (person)
- Long — primary (person)
- Malone — primary (person)
- Mautz — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- Rose — primary (person)
- Shoemaker — primary (person)
- Turner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-07** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-10** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-13** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-16** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 475 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e5878172-2318-415e-8f7d-7994bf704802`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).