---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commission on Public Health - Establishment"
description: "Commission on Public Health - Establishment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 214"
citation: "Maryland HB 214 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Kaiser", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Taveras", "White", "Woods"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-20"
last_action: "2023-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2019b18e-6fa8-45ef-be51-26d4976fa0ce"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0214?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "efd34c2dd15cbe02a8b53f6d69d42688f6728571fb34b88296f7575b0e136ccd"
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 214 (2023) — Commission on Public Health - Establishment

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Commission on Public Health - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_385_hb0214e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Commission on Public Health - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0214e.pdf)
3. **First - Commission on Public Health - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0214f.pdf)
4. **Third - Commission on Public Health - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0214t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-20** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-21** Hearing 1/26 at 3:00 p.m.
- **2023-02-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-02-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-17** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-05** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2023-04-05** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2023-04-05** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Bagnall, Rosenberg and Kipke)
- **2023-04-07** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2023-04-07** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2023-04-07** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Bagnall, Rosenberg and Kipke)
- **2023-04-07** Senate Refuses Recede
- **2023-04-07** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Lam, Ellis and Ready)
- **2023-04-07** Senate Refuses Recede
- **2023-04-07** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Lam, Ellis and Ready)
- **2023-04-10** Conference Committee Report {
- **2023-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-10** Conference Committee Report {
- **2023-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2023-05-03** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 385 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2019b18e-6fa8-45ef-be51-26d4976fa0ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).