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Bill	Health Occupations – Dental Assistants – Certification and Regulation	Health Occupations – Dental Assistants – Certification and Regulation	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2022	HB 968	Maryland HB 968 (2022)	bill		enacted	Bagnall Bhandari Chisholm Hill Johnson K. Young Kaiser Kelly Kerr Kipke Landis Pena-Melnyk Pendergrass R. Lewis	4	15	3	2022-02-10	2022-05-16	openstates	ocd-bill/8aeec201-1d2d-410d-ba78-c0fd9847f6ee	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0968?ys=2022RS&search=True	395629340d9441240d2d9fd1db076c952f943967aebcd1eb4282db58e4ed81cc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 968 (2022) — Health Occupations – Dental Assistants – Certification and Regulation

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Health Occupations – Dental Assistants – Certification and Regulation (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled - Health Occupations – Dental Assistants – Certification and Regulation (committee substitute) — source
3. First - Health Occupations – Dental Assistants – Certification and Regulation (committee substitute) — source
4. Third - Health Occupations – Dental Assistants – Certification and Regulation (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading (Amend) — 43–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 130–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — 121–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bagnall — primary (person)
• Bhandari — primary (person)
• Chisholm — primary (person)
• Hill — primary (person)
• Johnson — primary (person)
• K. Young — primary (person)
• Kaiser — primary (person)
• Kelly — primary (person)
• Kerr — primary (person)
• Kipke — primary (person)
• Landis — primary (person)
• Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
• Pendergrass — primary (person)
• R. Lewis — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-10 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2022-02-14 Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2022-03-18 Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-18 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-18 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2022-03-21 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2022-03-21 Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2022-04-08 Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-08 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-08 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2022-04-09 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2022-04-11 House Concurs Senate Amendments
• 2022-04-11 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2022-04-11 Passed Enrolled
• 2022-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 364 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8aeec201-1d2d-410d-ba78-c0fd9847f6ee. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).