Maryland Senate Bill 449 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-3)
Status: Passed on April 11 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-04-11 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 61
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]

Altering the definition of "hearing aid dispensing" to include certain actions taken for the purpose of ordering certain hearing instruments and specifying that certain hearing instruments include prescription hearing aids; altering the definition of "practice audiology" for purposes of certain provisions of law governing the licensure of audiologists to include prescribing, ordering, selling, dispensing, or fitting hearing aids to an individual for the correction or relief of a condition for which hearing aids are worn; etc.

Maryland Audiology, Hearing Aid Dispensing, Speech-Language Pathology, and Music Therapy Act - Definitions and Application

Sen. Dawn Gile [D]	Sen. Pamela Beidle [D]	Sen. Arthur Ellis [D]	Sen. Stephen Hershey [R]
Sen. Benjamin Kramer [D]	Sen. Johnny Mautz [R]	Sen. Justin Ready [R]	Sen. Ariana Kelly [D]

2023-04-05 - House - Third Reading Passed (Y: 135 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2023-03-16 - Senate - Third Reading Passed (Y: 47 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-04-11	Senate	Approved by the Governor - Chapter 61
2023-04-06	Senate	Returned Passed
2023-04-05	House	Third Reading Passed (135-0)
2023-03-31	House	Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed
2023-03-31	House	Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations
2023-03-18	House	Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
2023-03-17	House	Referred Health and Government Operations
2023-03-16	Senate	Third Reading Passed (47-0)
2023-03-14	Senate	Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2023-03-14	Senate	Favorable with Amendments {693820/1 Adopted
2023-03-13	Senate	Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
2023-02-03	Senate	Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
2023-02-02	Senate	First Reading Finance

HB401 (Crossfiled) 2023-04-11 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 60

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Health Occupations	2	101	(n/a)	See Bill Text
Health Occupations	2	102	(n/a)	See Bill Text
Health Occupations	2	301	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0449?ys=2023RS
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0449f.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0449t.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_61_sb0449t.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/amds/bil_0009/sb0449_69382001.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/votes_comm/sb0449_fin.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/votes_comm/sb0449_hgo.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/votes/Senate/0464.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/votes/House/0986.pdf