---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Board of Public Accountancy - Emeritus Status"
description: "State Board of Public Accountancy - Emeritus Status"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 427"
citation: "Maryland HB 427 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Queen"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23649ac2-5ddd-447a-a223-306a1a18d787"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0427?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "9a44f3db09d76c4eff0405e3743cc1a67fa997312b05e9a86290be589230e965"
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 427 (2025) — State Board of Public Accountancy - Emeritus Status

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Board of Public Accountancy - Emeritus Status** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_404_hb0427t.pdf)
2. **First - State Board of Public Accountancy - Emeritus Status** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0427f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Board of Public Accountancy - Emeritus Status** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0427t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Amend) — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Queen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-16** Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-05** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-05** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2025-04-07** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-07** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2025-04-07** Senate Recede
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 404 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23649ac2-5ddd-447a-a223-306a1a18d787`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).