---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Occupations - Dental Hygienists - Authority to Prescribe and Administer Medication"
description: "Health Occupations - Dental Hygienists - Authority to Prescribe and Administer Medication"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 749"
citation: "Maryland HB 749 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Barron", "Bhandari", "Carr", "Charles", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Hill", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Krebs", "Morgan", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "Sample-Hughes", "Szeliga"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-31"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71f72bd6-c3a6-4d40-b4ba-f0a0c84605da"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0749?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e797514c1648e48b7a1d6013db810cf2dc844a6907b875544037b97467e1dd0d"
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 749 (2020) — Health Occupations - Dental Hygienists - Authority to Prescribe and Administer Medication

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Health Occupations - Dental Hygienists - Authority to Prescribe and Administer Medication** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_311_hb0749t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Occupations - Dental Hygienists - Authority to Prescribe and Administer Medication** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0749f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Occupations - Dental Hygienists - Authority to Prescribe and Administer Medication** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0749t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- On third reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Barron — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Carr — primary (person)
- Charles — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Johnson — primary (person)
- K. Young — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Krebs — primary (person)
- Morgan — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Pendergrass — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-31** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-04** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-09** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-10** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-15** Hearing canceled
- **2020-03-15** Hearing 3/16 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2020-03-18** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-18** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-18** Second Reading Passed
- **2020-03-18** Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Jennings) Adopted
- **2020-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 311 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71f72bd6-c3a6-4d40-b4ba-f0a0c84605da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).