---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Occupations – Practice Audiology – Definition"
description: "Health Occupations – Practice Audiology – Definition"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 464"
citation: "Maryland HB 464 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-22"
last_action: "2024-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb9219c1-c60b-4310-a52f-0e4bce69cadf"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0464?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "427e38e1bad5e2081103bc656ee352d0824e666253ff8f8e986e2fde5932e968"
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 464 (2024) — Health Occupations – Practice Audiology – Definition

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health Occupations – Practice Audiology – Definition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_1048_hb0464t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Occupations – Practice Audiology – Definition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0464f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Occupations – Practice Audiology – Definition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0464t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **44–1** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **104–30** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-22** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-05** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-05** Hearing canceled
- **2024-02-07** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-03-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-26** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 1048 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fb9219c1-c60b-4310-a52f-0e4bce69cadf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).