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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: "SB 418"
citation: "Maryland SB 418 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Simonaire"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-29"
last_action: "2026-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87c3d113-68bc-4404-8e87-02be375518c5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0418?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "9d64997ed4c2678786f3f258e8c1d6db54c40acb9988e4b32545092eefb0dc7a"
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 418 (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_493_sb0418t.pdf)
2. **First - Professional Licensing Portability - Members of the Foreign Service and Spouses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0418f.pdf)
3. **Third - Professional Licensing Portability - Members of the Foreign Service and Spouses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0418t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1280** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **440** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Simonaire — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-29** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment and Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-09** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Energy, and the Environment)
- **2026-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-10** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-10** Floor Amendment {
- **2026-03-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-13** Referred Economic Matters Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-08** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-08** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-13** Returned Passed
- **2026-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 493 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87c3d113-68bc-4404-8e87-02be375518c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).