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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program"
description: "Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 265"
citation: "Maryland HB 265 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
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"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-11-01"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17fc6504-f023-4f8b-9ca0-76b65d22eaec"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0265?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "198512ab7439a7df4d4e4a262dc944830c03e0156e86642d4bde4b14db72906c"
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 265 (2025) — Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_356_hb0265t.pdf)
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)
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)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **12213** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **440** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Alston — primary (person)
- 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)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-11-01** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08** Hearing 1/28 at 2:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
- **2025-02-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-21** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 356 `executive-signature`
## Source
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).