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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Massage Therapy - Discipline"
description: "Massage Therapy - Discipline"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 238"
citation: "Maryland HB 238 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Boafo", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "White", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-23"
last_action: "2023-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/096aa528-327a-4f1b-93b8-0572a271aa54"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0238?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "c4e5be45bc44c0dd1794960cfd185d667f66cd9f41f0692d830e6163cf3cbac3"
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 238 (2023) — Massage Therapy - Discipline
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Massage Therapy - Discipline** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_56_hb0238t.pdf)
2. **First - Massage Therapy Definition and Discipline** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0238f.pdf)
3. **Third - Massage Therapy - Discipline** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0238t.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Boafo — 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)
- 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.
- **2023-01-23** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-02-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-28** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-03** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-31** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2023-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 56 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/096aa528-327a-4f1b-93b8-0572a271aa54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).