---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Medical Practice Act and Maryland Physician Assistants Act - Revisions"
description: "Maryland Medical Practice Act and Maryland Physician Assistants Act - Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 423"
citation: "Maryland SB 423 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beidle"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e036ec5f-5554-4d7e-bc0c-3d3a56db02c2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0423?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "172b7c0b6788425c518d77a25ee1f5ed047ec07152f18cba41e224a73451b8a3"
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 423 (2025) — Maryland Medical Practice Act and Maryland Physician Assistants Act - Revisions

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Medical Practice Act and Maryland Physician Assistants Act - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_675_sb0423t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Medical Practice Act and Maryland Physician Assistants Act - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0423f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Medical Practice Act and Maryland Physician Assistants Act - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0423t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beidle — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 675 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e036ec5f-5554-4d7e-bc0c-3d3a56db02c2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).