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type: "Bill"
title: "State Board of Physicians - Physician Licensure - Prohibition on Requiring Specialty Certification"
description: "State Board of Physicians - Physician Licensure - Prohibition on Requiring Specialty Certification"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1054"
citation: "Maryland HB 1054 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Assessments", "Committees and Commissions", "Licenses", "Physicians"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["West"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-08"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d86f1e6-9bab-4cf5-8e74-66477458a527"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1054&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "5da18f513e62759e3b4c4cea0118b3976a70fa231ee91ee86ec922c24e02dfb5"
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 1054 (2017) — State Board of Physicians - Physician Licensure - Prohibition on Requiring Specialty Certification
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1054f.pdf)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **460** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **1230** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- West — primary (person)
- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {596580/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (123-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 546 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d86f1e6-9bab-4cf5-8e74-66477458a527`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).