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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Board of Nursing – Sunset Extension, Licensure Exceptions, and Board Operations and Membership"
+description: "State Board of Nursing – Sunset Extension, Licensure Exceptions, and Board Operations and Membership"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 611"
+citation: "Maryland HB 611 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "Woods"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 0
+first_action: "2023-02-03"
+last_action: "2023-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1d6d0a5d-9d6b-4eb9-9100-2eedcc9c29ad"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0611?ys=2023RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "6cf4587fa8a284c49d1bad91129fecdc3c33b7f992bbb252278428debc370a98"
+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 611 (2023) — State Board of Nursing – Sunset Extension, Licensure Exceptions, and Board Operations and Membership
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - State Board of Nursing – Sunset Extension, Licensure Exceptions, and Board Operations and Membership** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_222_hb0611e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - State Board of Nursing – Sunset Extension, Licensure Exceptions, and Board Operations and Membership** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0611e.pdf)
+3. **First - State Board of Nursing – Sunset Extension, Licensure Exceptions, and Board Operations and Membership** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0611f.pdf)
+4. **Third - State Board of Nursing – Sunset Extension, Licensure Exceptions, and Board Operations and Membership** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0611t.pdf)
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alston — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Chisholm — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Hutchinson — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kelly — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Kipke — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- M. Morgan — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Reilly — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- S. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Szeliga — primary (person)
+- Taveras — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-03** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-03** Hearing 2/09 at 3:00 p.m.
+- **2023-02-07** Hearing canceled
+- **2023-02-07** Hearing 2/09 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2023-02-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-02-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-02-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2023-02-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2023-02-17** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-30** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-30** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2023-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2023-04-07** House Concurs Senate Amendments
+- **2023-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2023-04-07** Passed Enrolled
+- **2023-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 222 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1d6d0a5d-9d6b-4eb9-9100-2eedcc9c29ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+