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Bill	Tree Expert Licenses - Application and Renewal Fee Alterations and Insurance Requirements	Tree Expert Licenses - Application and Renewal Fee Alterations and Insurance Requirements	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2024	SB 683	Maryland SB 683 (2024)	bill		enacted	Hester	3	17	3	2024-01-29	2024-05-09	openstates	ocd-bill/bb917032-0232-4ca8-8901-1b22fc65971e	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0683?ys=2024RS&search=True	bc178859a1b4c3abca41ec217726092a784b79e2e6c72116d5bd3ef2a148d69c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 683 (2024) — Tree Expert Licenses - Application and Renewal Fee Alterations and Insurance Requirements

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Tree Expert Licenses - Application and Renewal Fee Alterations and Insurance Requirements (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Tree Expert Licenses - Workers' Compensation Insurance Requirements and Application and Renewal Fee Alterations (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Tree Expert Licenses - Application and Renewal Fee Alterations and Insurance Requirements (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 103–27 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 36–10 (pass) · upper
• Floor Amendment Ready /123324/1 — 12–33 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Hester — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-29 First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment referral-committee
• 2024-02-07 Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2024-03-11 Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Motion Laid Over (Senator Ready) Adopted
• 2024-03-12 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-12 Floor Amendment {
• 2024-03-12 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2024-03-14 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-03-15 Referred Environment and Transportation referral-committee
• 2024-03-21 Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2024-04-05 Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-05 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-05 Second Reading Passed
• 2024-04-08 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-04-08 Returned Passed
• 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 510 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bb917032-0232-4ca8-8901-1b22fc65971e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).