---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business Occupations and Professions - Professional Engineers - Examination"
description: "Business Occupations and Professions - Professional Engineers - Examination"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 529"
citation: "Maryland SB 529 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be175ea0-d92a-4afe-a035-88317cc00de8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0529?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "4257d83d2c7ae9faabc7b115396ae3185c9cbc2f0347ca45e33b03877108a800"
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 SB 529 (2025) — Business Occupations and Professions - Professional Engineers - Examination

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Business Occupations and Professions - Professional Engineers - Examination** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_338_sb0529t.pdf)
2. **First - Business Occupations and Professions - Professional Engineers - Examination** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0529f.pdf)
3. **Third - Business Occupations and Professions - Professional Engineers - Examination** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0529t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **131–9** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **35–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brooks — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-11** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-14** Referred Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Rereferred to Economic Matters
- **2025-03-25** Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 338 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/be175ea0-d92a-4afe-a035-88317cc00de8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).