---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Occupations - Nursing - Loan Repayment, Education, and Sunset Extension (Building Opportunities for Nurses Act of 2025)"
description: "Health Occupations - Nursing - Loan Repayment, Education, and Sunset Extension (Building Opportunities for Nurses Act of 2025)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 19"
citation: "Maryland HB 19 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-10-09"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/117eacfb-60d7-45c6-a68c-63edb3097960"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0019?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "dd1680d6365eb7f563b3d96acda88a39a90f9c6b1ba53b7cb9b00ef00c44a817"
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 19 (2025) — Health Occupations - Nursing - Loan Repayment, Education, and Sunset Extension (Building Opportunities for Nurses Act of 2025)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health Occupations - Nursing - Loan Repayment, Education, and Sunset Extension (Building Opportunities for Nurses Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_416_hb0019e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Health Occupations - Nursing - Loan Repayment, Education, and Sunset Extension (Building Opportunities for Nurses Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0019e.pdf)
3. **First - Health Occupations - Nursing - Loan Repayment, Education, and Sunset Extension (Building Opportunities for Nurses Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0019f.pdf)
4. **Third - Health Occupations - Nursing - Loan Repayment, Education, and Sunset Extension (Building Opportunities for Nurses Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0019t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **135–2** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-09** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08** Hearing 1/28 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 416 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/117eacfb-60d7-45c6-a68c-63edb3097960`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).