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Bill	Health Occupations - Violations of the Maryland Dentistry Act - Penalties and Cease and Desist Orders	Health Occupations - Violations of the Maryland Dentistry Act - Penalties and Cease and Desist Orders	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2020	HB 947	Maryland HB 947 (2020)	bill		enacted	Bagnall Bhandari Carr Charles Chisholm Cullison Hill Johnson K. Young Kerr Kipke Krebs Morgan Pena-Melnyk Pendergrass R. Lewis Rosenberg Saab Sample-Hughes Szeliga	3	14	2	2020-02-05	2020-05-08	openstates	ocd-bill/e828715e-c751-43d9-8667-9eacba664ebe	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0947?ys=2020RS&search=True	f97475d6ecae173d7252d14279353cb9c30055a89067cd44b922ad0d18ddadca	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 947 (2020) — Health Occupations - Violations of the Maryland Dentistry Act - Penalties and Cease and Desist Orders

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Health Occupations - Violations of the Maryland Dentistry Act - Penalties and Cease and Desist Orders (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Health Occupations - Violations of the Maryland Dentistry Act - Penalties and Cease and Desist Orders (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Health Occupations - Violations of the Maryland Dentistry Act - Penalties and Cease and Desist Orders (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Bagnall — 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)
• Kerr — primary (person)
• Kipke — primary (person)
• Krebs — primary (person)
• Morgan — primary (person)
• Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
• Pendergrass — primary (person)
• R. Lewis — primary (person)
• Rosenberg — primary (person)
• Saab — primary (person)
• Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
• Szeliga — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-05 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2020-02-05 Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2020-03-09 Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-10 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-10 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2020-03-11 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-12 Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
• 2020-03-17 Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-17 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-17 Second Reading Passed
• 2020-03-17 Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day Const/Rule 24 (Senator King) Adopted
• 2020-03-17 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-18 Returned Passed
• 2020-05-08 Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 385 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e828715e-c751-43d9-8667-9eacba664ebe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).