---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Board of Social Work Examiners - Board Membership and Certified Social Worker Licenses"
description: "State Board of Social Work Examiners - Board Membership and Certified Social Worker Licenses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 755"
citation: "Maryland HB 755 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bhandari"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-31"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53336f22-fd32-4cb0-bbb3-de7706a518fb"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0755?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "c0254eec012538da3aa87e898f38b16d8f85cf03b6e7b47b66b6e36c1785b1ba"
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 755 (2024) — State Board of Social Work Examiners - Board Membership and Certified Social Worker Licenses

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Board of Social Work Examiners - Board Membership and Certified Social Worker Licenses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_930_hb0755t.pdf)
2. **First - State Board of Social Work Examiners - Board Membership and Certified Social Worker Licenses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0755f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Board of Social Work Examiners - Board Membership and Certified Social Worker Licenses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0755t.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 755 HB 759 HB 776 HB 786 HB 914 — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bhandari — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-31** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-05** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-26** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-02-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 930 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53336f22-fd32-4cb0-bbb3-de7706a518fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).