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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Board of Nursing - Advanced Practice Nursing Licensure and Specialty Certification - Reciprocity Discussions (Maryland Border States Advanced Practice Nursing Act)"
+description: "State Board of Nursing - Advanced Practice Nursing Licensure and Specialty Certification - Reciprocity Discussions (Maryland Border States Advanced Practice Nursing Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 602"
+citation: "Maryland HB 602 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Adams", "Hutchinson"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-23"
+last_action: "2025-05-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a42d3e11-a2eb-41a8-840a-93cb0c6c401e"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0602?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "78a50f526b67ae4146a3508d2058f043c9ad8b6c7ac601071b53540fb32637f2"
+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 602 (2025) — State Board of Nursing - Advanced Practice Nursing Licensure and Specialty Certification - Reciprocity Discussions (Maryland Border States Advanced Practice Nursing Act)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - State Board of Nursing - Advanced Practice Nursing Licensure and Specialty Certification - Reciprocity Discussions (Maryland Border States Advanced Practice Nursing Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_673_hb0602t.pdf)
+2. **First - State Board of Nursing - Advanced Practice Nursing Licensure and Specialty Certification - Reciprocity Discussions (Maryland Border States Advanced Practice Nursing Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0602f.pdf)
+3. **Third - State Board of Nursing - Advanced Practice Nursing Licensure and Specialty Certification - Reciprocity Discussions (Maryland Border States Advanced Practice Nursing Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0602t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Adams — primary (person)
+- Hutchinson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-23** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-10** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-11** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-12** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-28** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 673 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a42d3e11-a2eb-41a8-840a-93cb0c6c401e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+