---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Board of Nursing - Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses - Renewal of Licenses - Continuing Education Units"
description: "State Board of Nursing - Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses - Renewal of Licenses - Continuing Education Units"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 253"
citation: "Maryland HB 253 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Committees and Commissions", "Continuing Education", "Health Occupations", "Licenses", "Nurses", "Records", "Rules and Regulations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Angel"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e04a41e-daca-404d-a291-05906395e7be"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB253&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "d42674618ed7fe6cc0df4bbdd0f09f6bf1111dc0ef097a30a6961f9c704eda44"
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 253 (2017) — State Board of Nursing - Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses - Renewal of Licenses - Continuing Education Units

## 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/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0253f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Angel — primary (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-23** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-21** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-22** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-22** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-24** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-27** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 623 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1e04a41e-daca-404d-a291-05906395e7be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).