---
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: "SB 217"
citation: "Maryland SB 217 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-10-06"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8a08fc7-3596-4fe9-a734-38453f6011f8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0217?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "a866b5383591864988daa791ffcd74d3f61a5ae7e516070dd94eac32047d3917"
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 SB 217 (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_32_sb0217t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Occupations Boards - Membership Alteration and Sunset Extensions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0217f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Occupations Boards - Membership Alteration and Sunset Extensions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0217t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair, Finance Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-06** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Hearing 1/21 at 3:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-07** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-15** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 32 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b8a08fc7-3596-4fe9-a734-38453f6011f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).