---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, and Speech-Language Pathologists - Inactive Status of Licenses"
description: "State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, and Speech-Language Pathologists - Inactive Status of Licenses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 168"
citation: "Maryland HB 168 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Audiologists and Speech Pathologists", "Committees and Commissions", "Health Occupations", "Hearing Aids", "Licenses", "Notices", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-17"
last_action: "2018-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d5f6a65-7f52-48a0-999a-c9d52213547f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB168&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "b2ea3ca025c997046467200fc0ddd7859cd130834bad88ff946b5bfb03522c09"
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 168 (2018) — State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, and Speech-Language Pathologists - Inactive Status of Licenses

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0168f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Health and Government Operations Committee (By Request - Departmental - Health) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-17** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-17** Hearing 2/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-13** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-14** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-14** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-02-16** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-19** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-15** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 103 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d5f6a65-7f52-48a0-999a-c9d52213547f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).