---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Occupations - Licensed Athletic Trainers - Dry Needling Approval"
description: "Health Occupations - Licensed Athletic Trainers - Dry Needling Approval"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 172"
citation: "Maryland HB 172 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Fair", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kerr", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Simpson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "White", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-18"
last_action: "2023-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ab410d7-9f73-4d1d-90f7-49ca1371dabd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0172?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "470743a88e33b7f883fb22ab0a85d41bc753c8e0663a37ce016f7b82b9aae566"
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 172 (2023) — Health Occupations - Licensed Athletic Trainers - Dry Needling Approval

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health Occupations - Licensed Athletic Trainers - Dry Needling Approval** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_302_hb0172t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Occupations - Licensed Athletic Trainers - Dry Needling Approval** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0172f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Occupations - Licensed Athletic Trainers - Dry Needling Approval** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0172t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Simpson — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-18** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-16** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-04** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2023-05-03** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 302 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ab410d7-9f73-4d1d-90f7-49ca1371dabd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).