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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program"
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description: "Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
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legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "HB 265"
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citation: "Maryland HB 265 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "S. Johnson", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 14
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2024-11-01"
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last_action: "2025-05-06"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17fc6504-f023-4f8b-9ca0-76b65d22eaec"
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source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0265?ys=2025RS&search=True"
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source_hash: "198512ab7439a7df4d4e4a262dc944830c03e0156e86642d4bde4b14db72906c"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
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---
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# Maryland HB 265 (2025) — Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Chapter - Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_356_hb0265t.pdf)
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2. **First - Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program and Study on Use of Dental Online Credentialing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0265f.pdf)
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3. **Third - Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program and Study on Use of Dental Online Credentialing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0265t.pdf)
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## Votes
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- On Third Reading — **122–13** (pass) · lower
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- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Alston — primary (person)
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- Bagnall — primary (person)
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- Bhandari — primary (person)
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- Chisholm — primary (person)
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- Cullison — primary (person)
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- Guzzone — primary (person)
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- Hill — primary (person)
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- Hutchinson — primary (person)
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- Kaiser — primary (person)
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- Kerr — primary (person)
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- Kipke — primary (person)
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- Lopez — primary (person)
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- M. Morgan — primary (person)
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- Martinez — primary (person)
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- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
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- S. Johnson — primary (person)
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- White Holland — primary (person)
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- Woods — primary (person)
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- Woorman — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-11-01** Pre-filed `introduction`
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- **2025-01-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations and Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-08** Hearing 1/28 at 2:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
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- **2025-02-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-02-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-02-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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- **2025-02-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
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- **2025-02-21** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-03** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed
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- **2025-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
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- **2025-04-05** Returned Passed
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- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 356 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17fc6504-f023-4f8b-9ca0-76b65d22eaec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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