---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Board of Physicians – Sunset Evaluation and Termination"
description: "State Board of Physicians – Sunset Evaluation and Termination"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 638"
citation: "Maryland HB 638 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Auditors and Audits", "Committees and Commissions", "Examinations", "Legislative Services", "Department of", "Physician Assistants", "Reports", "Sunset"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pendergrass"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-06"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/281ba007-1cc8-4a94-b41e-8899b381ffe1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB638&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "46b2aac279fed7a0707a0ba6554b74d62c17b0fa0489927b3174de7932870175"
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 638 (2019) — State Board of Physicians – Sunset Evaluation and Termination

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0638e.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **134–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pendergrass — primary (person)
- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Charles — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-06** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Favorable with Amendments {486388/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-07** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-11** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {974534/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-04** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-04** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 419 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/281ba007-1cc8-4a94-b41e-8899b381ffe1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).