---
type: "Bill"
title: "Certified Nursing Assistants - Licensing Requirements and Administrative Updates"
description: "Certified Nursing Assistants - Licensing Requirements and Administrative Updates"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 999"
citation: "Maryland SB 999 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beidle"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-02"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05f51d46-4425-47c0-b425-6d6f716e2bc5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0999?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "06bb7f29c2e7eaaca5997263a85c8e708952239ac521408d46be6de0eac080b7"
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 999 (2024) — Certified Nursing Assistants - Licensing Requirements and Administrative Updates

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Certified Nursing Assistants - Licensing Requirements and Administrative Updates** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_819_sb0999t.pdf)
2. **First - Certified Nursing Assistants - Licensing Requirements and Administrative Updates** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0999f.pdf)
3. **Third - Certified Nursing Assistants - Licensing Requirements and Administrative Updates** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0999t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beidle — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-02** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-06** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-16** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-25** Hearing canceled
- **2024-03-25** Hearing 3/26 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2024-03-27** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-03-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 819 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/05f51d46-4425-47c0-b425-6d6f716e2bc5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).