---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Occupations - Health Care Workforce Expansion"
description: "Health Occupations - Health Care Workforce Expansion"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1208"
citation: "Maryland HB 1208 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Belcastro", "Bhandari", "Carr", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Hill", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kaiser", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Landis", "Morgan", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "Saab", "Sample-Hughes", "Szeliga"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-02-11"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47a5824b-13d6-47f8-96ce-f41f5f82638e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1208?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e6031afaa7db7fc6bb864ba94d8254ef8790282b9fb748e10b4881c496cde372"
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 1208 (2022) — Health Occupations - Health Care Workforce Expansion

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health Occupations - Health Care Workforce Expansion** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_675_hb1208e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Health Occupations - Health Care Workforce Expansion** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb1208e.pdf)
3. **First - Health Occupations - Health Care Workforce Expansion** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb1208f.pdf)
4. **Third - Health Occupations - Health Care Workforce Expansion** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb1208t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **127–1** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **129–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-11** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** Hearing 3/03 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Referred Budget and Taxation Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-22** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
- **2022-04-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-04-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-11** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2022-04-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-11** Passed Enrolled
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 675 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47a5824b-13d6-47f8-96ce-f41f5f82638e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).