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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program"
+description: "Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 265"
+citation: "Maryland HB 265 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "S. Johnson", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-11-01"
+last_action: "2025-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17fc6504-f023-4f8b-9ca0-76b65d22eaec"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0265?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "198512ab7439a7df4d4e4a262dc944830c03e0156e86642d4bde4b14db72906c"
+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 265 (2025) — Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_356_hb0265t.pdf)
+2. **First - Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program and Study on Use of Dental Online Credentialing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0265f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program and Study on Use of Dental Online Credentialing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0265t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **122–13** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alston — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Chisholm — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Hutchinson — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Kipke — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- M. Morgan — primary (person)
+- Martinez — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- S. Johnson — primary (person)
+- White Holland — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+- Woorman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-11-01** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2025-01-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations and Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-08** Hearing 1/28 at 2:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
+- **2025-02-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-02-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-21** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-03** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-05** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 356 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17fc6504-f023-4f8b-9ca0-76b65d22eaec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+