republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2019/hb-738.md

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Bill	Dental Hygienist – Scope of Practice – Practice Settings Under General Supervision	Dental Hygienist – Scope of Practice – Practice Settings Under General Supervision	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2019	HB 738	Maryland HB 738 (2019)	bill	Health Occupations Public Health Assisted Living Communications Contracts Data Demographics Dental Hygienists Dentists Disclosure Electronic Communication Equipment Examinations Health Care Facilities Licenses Long-Term Care Medical Treatments Names Nonprofit Organizations Notices Nursing Homes Patients Records Reports Telecommunications and Information Technology Telephones Time	enacted	Kipke	1	14	2	2019-02-08	2019-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/3b870581-4464-4fa1-a7de-edfb7a4051df	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB738&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs	338ceec22519fb081df343a7fe4019ce758efea11c682195328756c8b199f90a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 738 (2019) — Dental Hygienist – Scope of Practice – Practice Settings Under General Supervision

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 137–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kipke — primary (person)
• Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
• Barron — cosponsor (person)
• Bhandari — cosponsor (person)
• Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Charles — cosponsor (person)
• Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
• Cullison — cosponsor (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly — cosponsor (person)
• Kerr — cosponsor (person)
• Krebs — cosponsor (person)
• Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
• Morgan — cosponsor (person)
• Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
• Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
• R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
• Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
• Saab — cosponsor (person)
• Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
• Szeliga — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-08 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2019-02-11 Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2019-03-14 Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-14 Favorable with Amendments {236283/2 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-14 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2019-03-18 Third Reading Passed (137-1) passage
• 2019-03-18 First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2019-03-19 Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2019-04-03 Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-03 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-03 Second Reading Passed
• 2019-04-04 Third Reading Passed (45-0) passage
• 2019-04-04 Returned Passed
• 2019-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 399 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3b870581-4464-4fa1-a7de-edfb7a4051df. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).