---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Occupations - Licensed Direct-Entry Midwives - Revisions"
description: "Health Occupations - Licensed Direct-Entry Midwives - Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 854"
citation: "Maryland SB 854 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lewis Young"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd97551a-04d9-45a0-bc71-332b329e27cb"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0854?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "d0f5078dc03ad0d37fea64adcefcec76722a8b44e90cdd79b54b1abe728c228d"
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 854 (2025) — Health Occupations - Licensed Direct-Entry Midwives - Revisions

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health Occupations - Licensed Direct-Entry Midwives - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_644_sb0854t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Occupations - Licensed Direct-Entry Midwives - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0854f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Occupations - Licensed Direct-Entry Midwives - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0854t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **111–27** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lewis Young — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 644 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd97551a-04d9-45a0-bc71-332b329e27cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).