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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education - Initial Teacher Certification - Qualifications"
description: "Education - Initial Teacher Certification - Qualifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 888"
citation: "Maryland HB 888 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ebersole", "Fair", "Kerr"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/818210ac-720d-4903-9f7f-22e75c0a3050"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0888?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ebb0d46777818e8046a384d36bb3a9078eda139ba55ef9da1a0b8ab077ea1147"
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 888 (2025) — Education - Initial Teacher Certification - Qualifications
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Education - Initial Teacher Certification - Qualifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_337_hb0888t.pdf)
2. **First - Education - Initial Teacher Certification - Qualifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0888f.pdf)
3. **Third - Education - Initial Teacher Certification - Qualifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0888t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **434** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **12612** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Ebersole — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-30** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-12** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-12** Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Hearing 4/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-02** Hearing canceled
- **2025-04-02** Hearing 4/02 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2025-04-02** Hearing canceled
- **2025-04-02** Hearing 4/02 at 3:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Motion Special Order until Next Session (Senator Bailey) Adopted
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 337 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/818210ac-720d-4903-9f7f-22e75c0a3050`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).