---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Licensure of Direct-Entry Midwives Act - Revisions"
description: "Maryland Licensure of Direct-Entry Midwives Act - Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 1114"
citation: "Maryland SB 1114 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Administrative Agencies", "Diseases", "Health", "Health Care Facilities", "Health Occupations", "Licenses", "Midwives", "Nurses", "Pregnancy"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Conway"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-15"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0a95bc5-6191-441c-9a10-f9656cabc15e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1114&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "57632c021c6e30c17ebf430eb83bfedff6389f88ae883fc7f51e9bf05edc423d"
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 1114 (2018) — Maryland Licensure of Direct-Entry Midwives 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/2018RS/bills/sb/sb1114f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Conway — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-15** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2018-02-16** Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {784135/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-20** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-23** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 529 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0a95bc5-6191-441c-9a10-f9656cabc15e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).