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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Board of Nursing - Maryland Nurse Practice Act - Revisions"
+description: "State Board of Nursing - Maryland Nurse Practice Act - Revisions"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 8"
+citation: "Maryland SB 8 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Committees and Commissions", "Crimes and Punishments", "Criminal Background Investigations", "Licenses", "Notices", "Nurses", "Penalties and Sentences", "Records", "Reports"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-09-27"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79dccfb9-81da-4638-857b-d19612935472"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB8&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "c9c54c701fa6996f543ca733f8b8b91e54719d1876830154d3dc193e38bb6ab9"
+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 8 (2018) — State Board of Nursing - Maryland Nurse Practice Act - Revisions
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/sb/sb0008f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chair — primary (person)
+- Education — cosponsor (person)
+- Environmental Affairs Committee (By Request - Departmental - Health) — cosponsor (person)
+- Health — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-09-27** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2018-01-10** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-03** Hearing 1/18 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-01-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-01-29** Favorable with Amendments {404331/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-01-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-01-31** Third Reading Passed (42-0) `passage`
+- **2018-02-01** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-05** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-06** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 656 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79dccfb9-81da-4638-857b-d19612935472`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+