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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Occupations - Psychologists - Licensure Qualification"
description: "Health Occupations - Psychologists - Licensure Qualification"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 26"
citation: "Maryland HB 26 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "White", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-11-17"
last_action: "2023-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48734408-780b-458a-832a-a44f303e2b2b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0026?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "045fc7700b51e1e133b692bae09ea16eeaaa90b2e7e7d8fbc2a3ef8683667f21"
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 26 (2023) — Health Occupations - Psychologists - Licensure Qualification
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Health Occupations - Psychologists - Licensure Qualification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_55_hb0026t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Occupations - Psychologists - Licensure Qualification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0026f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Occupations - Psychologists - Licensure Qualification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0026t.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-11-17** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-11** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19** Hearing 2/09 at 3:00 p.m.
- **2023-02-07** Hearing canceled
- **2023-02-07** Hearing 2/09 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2023-02-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-21** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-02-23** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-19** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-04-04** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2023-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 55 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/48734408-780b-458a-832a-a44f303e2b2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).