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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health Occupations - Requirements for the Practice of Optometry - Miscellaneous Revisions"
+description: "Health Occupations - Requirements for the Practice of Optometry - Miscellaneous Revisions"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 471"
+citation: "Maryland HB 471 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Age of Majority", "Certifications", "Committees and Commissions", "Consumer Protection", "Curriculum", "Data", "Diseases", "Drugs", "Education", "Equipment", "Examinations", "Health", "Department of", "Health and Higher Educational Facilities Authority", "Health Occupations", "Licenses", "Medical Treatments", "Medical Schools", "Minors", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Ophthalmologists", "Optometrists", "Patients", "Records", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Students", "Time"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["K. Young"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-02-01"
+last_action: "2019-04-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1f22f68-2605-4d0f-8deb-7231faacf1b9"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB471&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "0774ef07cd459a88014f07bd9b4558b850e811611c2705a6a8c9df17bf617600"
+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 471 (2019) — Health Occupations - Requirements for the Practice of Optometry - Miscellaneous 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0471f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- K. Young — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
+- Bhandari — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles — cosponsor (person)
+- Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-01** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-11** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {956783/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-16** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-18** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Favorable with Amendments {244637/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-03** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-03** Passed Enrolled
+- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 344 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1f22f68-2605-4d0f-8deb-7231faacf1b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+