---
type: "Bill"
title: "Dental Hygienists – Consultation Requirements – Health Care Practitioners"
description: "Dental Hygienists – Consultation Requirements – Health Care Practitioners"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 219"
citation: "Maryland HB 219 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelly"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-13"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d6d5c07-c099-49fb-977a-e402542442ba"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0219?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "94438a7f2d3e830ea9094f4215b3d0189fa1aa01778b3575337ddc465f3f5798"
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 219 (2022) — Dental Hygienists – Consultation Requirements – Health Care Practitioners

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Dental Hygienists – Consultation Requirements – Health Care Practitioners** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_677_hb0219t.pdf)
2. **First - Dental Hygienists – Consultation Requirements – Health Care Practitioners** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0219f.pdf)
3. **Third - Dental Hygienists – Consultation Requirements – Health Care Practitioners** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0219t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kelly — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-13** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13** Hearing 2/01 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2022-01-25** Hearing canceled
- **2022-01-25** Hearing 2/01 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-02-21** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-22** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-22** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-02-24** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-25** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-01** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-01** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 677 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d6d5c07-c099-49fb-977a-e402542442ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).