---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Board of Social Work Examiners - Revisions"
description: "State Board of Social Work Examiners - Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 986"
citation: "Maryland SB 986 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Committees and Commissions", "Criminal Background Investigations", "Disclosure", "Health Occupations", "Higher Education", "Licenses", "Names", "Records", "Social Workers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nathan-Pulliam"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70ce942e-dfef-4005-9ed6-4127869a5147"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB986&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "70053a28250915b4f6ec65a6167797d2261458e02bed1ce12da23acc7a205329"
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 986 (2017) — State Board of Social Work Examiners - 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/sb/sb0986f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Nathan-Pulliam — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-29** Favorable with Amendments {794735/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-30** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-30** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-04** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {276088/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 549 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/70ce942e-dfef-4005-9ed6-4127869a5147`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).