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Bill	Health Occupations - Dental Hygienists - Authority to Prescribe and Administer Medication	Health Occupations - Dental Hygienists - Authority to Prescribe and Administer Medication	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2020	HB 749	Maryland HB 749 (2020)	bill		enacted	Bagnall Barron Bhandari Carr Charles Chisholm Cullison Hill Johnson K. Young Kelly Kerr Kipke Krebs Morgan Pena-Melnyk Pendergrass R. Lewis Reilly Rosenberg Sample-Hughes Szeliga	3	17	2	2020-01-31	2020-05-08	openstates	ocd-bill/71f72bd6-c3a6-4d40-b4ba-f0a0c84605da	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0749?ys=2020RS&search=True	e797514c1648e48b7a1d6013db810cf2dc844a6907b875544037b97467e1dd0d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 749 (2020) — Health Occupations - Dental Hygienists - Authority to Prescribe and Administer Medication

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Health Occupations - Dental Hygienists - Authority to Prescribe and Administer Medication (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Health Occupations - Dental Hygienists - Authority to Prescribe and Administer Medication (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Health Occupations - Dental Hygienists - Authority to Prescribe and Administer Medication (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 135–0 (pass) · lower
• On third reading — 44–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-31 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2020-02-04 Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2020-03-03 Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-04 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-04 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2020-03-06 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-09 Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2020-03-10 Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2020-03-15 Hearing canceled
• 2020-03-15 Hearing 3/16 at 11:00 a.m.
• 2020-03-18 Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-18 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-18 Second Reading Passed
• 2020-03-18 Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Jennings) Adopted
• 2020-03-18 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-18 Returned Passed
• 2020-05-08 Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 311 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/71f72bd6-c3a6-4d40-b4ba-f0a0c84605da. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).