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type: "Bill"
title: "Health Occupations - Violations of the Maryland Dentistry Act - Penalties and Cease and Desist Orders"
description: "Health Occupations - Violations of the Maryland Dentistry Act - Penalties and Cease and Desist Orders"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 947"
citation: "Maryland HB 947 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Carr", "Charles", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Hill", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Krebs", "Morgan", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "Saab", "Sample-Hughes", "Szeliga"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-05"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e828715e-c751-43d9-8667-9eacba664ebe"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0947?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "f97475d6ecae173d7252d14279353cb9c30055a89067cd44b922ad0d18ddadca"
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 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](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_385_hb0947t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Occupations - Violations of the Maryland Dentistry Act - Penalties and Cease and Desist Orders** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0947f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Occupations - Violations of the Maryland Dentistry Act - Penalties and Cease and Desist Orders** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0947t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1370** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **450** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e828715e-c751-43d9-8667-9eacba664ebe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).