---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Occupations – Limited License to Practice Dentistry – Services for Adults"
description: "Health Occupations – Limited License to Practice Dentistry – Services for Adults"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 786"
citation: "Maryland HB 786 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-01-31"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0adb41d0-a8e2-465c-9b34-e7334b2b41e7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0786?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "8a0d8918370eb66762e8db67e62808ecbf678e146738be6926f5a5ea19dd9a3e"
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 786 (2024) — Health Occupations – Limited License to Practice Dentistry – Services for Adults

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health Occupations – Limited License to Practice Dentistry – Services for Adults** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_901_hb0786t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Occupations – Limited License to Practice Dentistry – Services for Adults** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0786f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Occupations – Limited License to Practice Dentistry – Services for Adults** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0786t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — 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)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-31** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-08** 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 901 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0adb41d0-a8e2-465c-9b34-e7334b2b41e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).