---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Nurse Practice Act - Revisions"
description: "Maryland Nurse Practice Act - Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 482"
citation: "Maryland HB 482 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Committees and Commissions", "Continuing Education", "Education", "Examinations", "Language", "Licenses", "Notices", "Nurses", "Records", "Rules and Regulations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cullison"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-27"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c06afcbc-b2d4-4da8-adfb-1bc474ea5615"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB482&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "59eadcf138960b0f6e8e861303e3ea3504d8a12ddfa4bf59ef1a843d17b84051"
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 482 (2017) — Maryland Nurse Practice Act - Revisions

## 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/hb0482f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cullison — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-27** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {216488/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 515 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c06afcbc-b2d4-4da8-adfb-1bc474ea5615`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).