---
type: "Bill"
title: "Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program"
description: "Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 456"
citation: "Maryland SB 456 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine", "McKay"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7452e606-ff3c-4717-b1ac-da98494a5003"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0456?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "34daf50f11765af85cf0d2fdfa46daf7bb6487deeb9903ad4244981f3a6b22de"
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 456 (2025) — Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_357_sb0456t.pdf)
2. **First - Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program and Study on Use of Dental Online Credentialing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0456f.pdf)
3. **Third - Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0456t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **126–12** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Augustine — primary (person)
- McKay — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment and Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Hearing 2/12 at 2:00 p.m. (Education, Energy, and the Environment)
- **2025-02-10** Hearing canceled (Education, Energy, and the Environment)
- **2025-02-10** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Energy, and the Environment)
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `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 Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 357 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7452e606-ff3c-4717-b1ac-da98494a5003`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).