---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Care Practitioners - Medical Examinations on Anesthetized or Unconscious Patients"
description: "Health Care Practitioners - Medical Examinations on Anesthetized or Unconscious Patients"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 909"
citation: "Maryland SB 909 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Public Health", "Certifications", "Committees and Commissions", "Communications", "Drugs", "Emergencies", "Examinations", "Health", "Health Occupations", "Hearings", "Job Training", "Jurisdiction", "Licenses", "Medical Treatments", "Patients", "Penalties and Sentences", "Students", "Vulnerable Adults"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Feldman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-14"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44c299ec-5a92-4612-a23a-a4ae611e0153"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB909&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "78970e366d475192a38c7cff346de0b7b4129949cdae953c8cfc8d9546ad91fe"
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 909 (2019) — Health Care Practitioners - Medical Examinations on Anesthetized or Unconscious Patients

## 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/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0909f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On third reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Feldman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-14** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2019-02-26** Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {774539/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-19** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Favorable with Amendments {216788/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-01** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 425 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44c299ec-5a92-4612-a23a-a4ae611e0153`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).