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type: "Bill"
title: "Health Occupations Boards - English Proficiency Requirements and Licensure by Endorsement for Nursing"
description: "Health Occupations Boards - English Proficiency Requirements and Licensure by Endorsement for Nursing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 367"
citation: "Maryland HB 367 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman", "Young"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f0f2ab2-8ca1-46ba-b7ab-c44d995487c9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0367?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "33527075e18fd606fb6705e590557ea6f0f43e51b6c872c60fb1296b13828ff8"
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 367 (2025) — Health Occupations Boards - English Proficiency Requirements and Licensure by Endorsement for Nursing
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Health Occupations Boards - English Proficiency Requirements and Licensure by Endorsement for Nursing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_731_hb0367t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Occupations Boards - English Proficiency Requirements and Licensure by Endorsement for Nursing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0367f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Occupations Boards - English Proficiency Requirements and Licensure by Endorsement for Nursing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0367t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **3313** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **10727** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Acevero — primary (person)
- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)
- Young — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-16** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-28** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 731 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f0f2ab2-8ca1-46ba-b7ab-c44d995487c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).