---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Occupations Boards - Membership Alteration and Sunset Extensions"
description: "Health Occupations Boards - Membership Alteration and Sunset Extensions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 256"
citation: "Maryland HB 256 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-10-06"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3c5d879-77d9-4d29-ba67-bb8392a84fef"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0256?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "a328e182ad9009421d8921e5430c7dcd5ea4ed6206aef49b78bf07c6ff0b8bb5"
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 256 (2025) — Health Occupations Boards - Membership Alteration and Sunset Extensions

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health Occupations Boards - Membership Alteration and Sunset Extensions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_31_hb0256t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Occupations Boards - Membership Alteration and Sunset Extensions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0256f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Occupations Boards - Membership Alteration and Sunset Extensions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0256t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-06** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-10** Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-14** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 31 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b3c5d879-77d9-4d29-ba67-bb8392a84fef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).