---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Occupations Boards - Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities"
description: "Health Occupations Boards - Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 503"
citation: "Maryland SB 503 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Health Occupations", "Committees and Commissions", "Ethnic Affairs", "General Assembly", "Health", "Health Occupations", "Public Information", "Reports", "Sunset"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nathan-Pulliam"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-01"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0fe4f454-1abc-4a8e-931f-e25fce1873f9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB503&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "a5742316ba46c1e0816f418a6991378729676c92ee0d4d1b5cf281c353dad361"
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 SB 503 (2017) — Health Occupations Boards - Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

## 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/sb/sb0503f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Nathan-Pulliam — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-01** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** Favorable with Amendments {414733/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-03** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {686783/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 499 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0fe4f454-1abc-4a8e-931f-e25fce1873f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).