---
type: "Bill"
title: "Anne Arundel County - Practice of Massage - Regulation"
description: "Anne Arundel County - Practice of Massage - Regulation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 309"
citation: "Maryland HB 309 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Anne Arundel County", "Commerce and Business", "Committees and Commissions", "County Administrators", "Health Occupations", "Inspections", "Law Enforcement", "Laws and Ordinances", "Licenses", "Massage", "Notices", "Rules and Regulations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anne Arundel County Delegation"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-22"
last_action: "2018-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44f52a36-86d9-46f1-bb1b-b427fdbf94bf"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB309&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "3e367734add7196adf38a46a744c65f7d4d90e0e7f633548d3de1ae6ac049cdf"
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 309 (2018) — Anne Arundel County - Practice of Massage - Regulation

## 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/hb0309f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **131–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Anne Arundel County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-22** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Hearing 2/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-01-25** Hearing canceled
- **2018-01-25** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-21** Favorable with Amendments {916184/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-23** Third Reading Passed (131-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-26** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-15** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 70 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44f52a36-86d9-46f1-bb1b-b427fdbf94bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).