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type: "Bill"
title: "State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists Licensure, Disciplinary Action, Criminal History Records Checks, and Trainee Status Revisions"
description: "State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists Licensure, Disciplinary Action, Criminal History Records Checks, and Trainee Status Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 958"
citation: "Maryland SB 958 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Archives", "Art", "Music and Cultural Affairs", "Certifications", "Committees and Commissions", "Communications", "Counselors", "Criminal Background Investigations", "Data", "Disclosure", "Education", "Electronic Government", "Examinations", "Fees", "Higher Education", "Internet", "Job Training", "Licenses", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Notices", "Open Government", "Penalties and Sentences", "Public Information", "Records", "Signs and Billboards", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennings"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-15"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1cc2ef4f-2202-4a48-aa61-5014dcfc0577"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB958&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "c15d110568c937df5c44805b9e2f9fb5cf6810d1a58893c1a838cdd4e505d51a"
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 958 (2019) — State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists Licensure, Disciplinary Action, Criminal History Records Checks, and Trainee Status Revisions
## 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/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0958f.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1372** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **450** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Jennings — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-15** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2019-02-26** Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable with Amendments {654538/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
- **2019-04-04** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-05** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-06** Third Reading Passed (137-2) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 408 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1cc2ef4f-2202-4a48-aa61-5014dcfc0577`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).