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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health Occupations – Dental Assistants – Certification and Regulation"
+description: "Health Occupations – Dental Assistants – Certification and Regulation"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 968"
+citation: "Maryland HB 968 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Hill", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kaiser", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Landis", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "R. Lewis"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2022-02-10"
+last_action: "2022-05-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8aeec201-1d2d-410d-ba78-c0fd9847f6ee"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0968?ys=2022RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "395629340d9441240d2d9fd1db076c952f943967aebcd1eb4282db58e4ed81cc"
+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 968 (2022) — Health Occupations – Dental Assistants – Certification and Regulation
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Health Occupations – Dental Assistants – Certification and Regulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_364_hb0968e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Health Occupations – Dental Assistants – Certification and Regulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0968e.pdf)
+3. **First - Health Occupations – Dental Assistants – Certification and Regulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0968f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Health Occupations – Dental Assistants – Certification and Regulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0968t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **43–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **130–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **121–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Chisholm — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Johnson — primary (person)
+- K. Young — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kelly — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Kipke — primary (person)
+- Landis — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Pendergrass — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-02-10** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-14** Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2022-03-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2022-03-21** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-04-08** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-04-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2022-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2022-04-11** House Concurs Senate Amendments
+- **2022-04-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2022-04-11** Passed Enrolled
+- **2022-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 364 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8aeec201-1d2d-410d-ba78-c0fd9847f6ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+