---
type: "Bill"
title: "Dental Hygienist – Scope of Practice – Practice Settings Under General Supervision"
description: "Dental Hygienist – Scope of Practice – Practice Settings Under General Supervision"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 738"
citation: "Maryland HB 738 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Public Health", "Assisted Living", "Communications", "Contracts", "Data", "Demographics", "Dental Hygienists", "Dentists", "Disclosure", "Electronic Communication", "Equipment", "Examinations", "Health Care Facilities", "Licenses", "Long-Term Care", "Medical Treatments", "Names", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Notices", "Nursing Homes", "Patients", "Records", "Reports", "Telecommunications and Information Technology", "Telephones", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kipke"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b870581-4464-4fa1-a7de-edfb7a4051df"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB738&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "338ceec22519fb081df343a7fe4019ce758efea11c682195328756c8b199f90a"
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 738 (2019) — Dental Hygienist – Scope of Practice – Practice Settings Under General Supervision

## 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/hb0738f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kipke — primary (person)
- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bhandari — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Charles — cosponsor (person)
- Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {236283/2 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (137-1) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 399 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3b870581-4464-4fa1-a7de-edfb7a4051df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).