---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Board of Nursing - Maryland Nurse Practice Act - Revisions"
description: "State Board of Nursing - Maryland Nurse Practice Act - Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 8"
citation: "Maryland SB 8 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Committees and Commissions", "Crimes and Punishments", "Criminal Background Investigations", "Licenses", "Notices", "Nurses", "Penalties and Sentences", "Records", "Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-09-27"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79dccfb9-81da-4638-857b-d19612935472"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB8&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "c9c54c701fa6996f543ca733f8b8b91e54719d1876830154d3dc193e38bb6ab9"
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 8 (2018) — State Board of Nursing - Maryland Nurse Practice 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/sb0008f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Education — cosponsor (person)
- Environmental Affairs Committee (By Request - Departmental - Health) — cosponsor (person)
- Health — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-09-27** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-03** Hearing 1/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-01-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-29** Favorable with Amendments {404331/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-01-31** Third Reading Passed (42-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-01** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/21 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
- **2018-04-05** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 656 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79dccfb9-81da-4638-857b-d19612935472`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).