---
type: "Bill"
title: "Dental Hygienists - Consultation Requirements - Health Care Practitioners"
description: "Dental Hygienists - Consultation Requirements - Health Care Practitioners"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 306"
citation: "Maryland SB 306 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lam"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-20"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b2bdecf-fdb2-42b2-aa31-bec6f37bb04d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0306?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "57a2af991bca99cff3446e3a7c80780d27e877f1f0eb6f36ab3db198aac01c2a"
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 306 (2022) — Dental Hygienists - Consultation Requirements - Health Care Practitioners

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Dental Hygienists - Consultation Requirements - Health Care Practitioners** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_678_sb0306t.pdf)
2. **First - Dental Hygienists - Consultation Requirements - Health Care Practitioners** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0306f.pdf)
3. **Third - Dental Hygienists - Consultation Requirements - Health Care Practitioners** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0306t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **122–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lam — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Hearing 2/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-08** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-11** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-18** Hearing 3/22 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-03-30** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-30** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 678 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b2bdecf-fdb2-42b2-aa31-bec6f37bb04d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).