---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Physicians and Physician Assistants - Administration and Funding"
description: "Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Physicians and Physician Assistants - Administration and Funding"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 998"
citation: "Maryland HB 998 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderton", "Arentz", "Bagnall", "Beitzel", "Crosby", "Hartman", "Jacobs", "Mautz", "McKay", "Morgan", "Otto", "P. Young", "Proctor", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "Sample-Hughes"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-05"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff4bf931-ba1c-48f3-9b14-9d4f4f616b2c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0998?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "b4f1e104c56e5a43ae22fe8a8915b18f06a70e765659b6e7f447205a67b0069c"
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 998 (2020) — Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Physicians and Physician Assistants - Administration and Funding

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Physicians and Physician Assistants - Administration and Funding** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_402_hb0998t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Physicians and Physician Assistants - Administration and Funding** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0998f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Physicians and Physician Assistants - Administration and Funding** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0998t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Anderton — primary (person)
- Arentz — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Beitzel — primary (person)
- Crosby — primary (person)
- Hartman — primary (person)
- Jacobs — primary (person)
- Mautz — primary (person)
- McKay — primary (person)
- Morgan — primary (person)
- Otto — primary (person)
- P. Young — primary (person)
- Proctor — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-05** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-13** Motion Special Order until Next Session (Delegate McIntosh) Adopted
- **2020-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-14** Floor Amendment {
- **2020-03-14** Floor Amendment {
- **2020-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-16** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-17** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Second Reading Passed
- **2020-03-17** Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day Const/Rule 24 (Senator King) Adopted
- **2020-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 402 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff4bf931-ba1c-48f3-9b14-9d4f4f616b2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).