Maryland’s nursing and healthcare workforce is at a breaking point. Staffing shortages, burnout, and policy delays are compromising both patient safety and provider wellbeing. We need legislation that reflects frontline insight—and that means healthcare professionals like YOU must be at the table.

Whether you’re a bedside nurse, tech, student, professor, social worker, or advocate, your lived experience is powerful policy evidence.

This toolkit is your launchpad.

Maryland proof: Health professionals show up—and it matters

These recent dockets featured healthcare voices (nurses, forensic nurses, advanced practice leaders, public health colleagues) testifying and submitting written statements:

• HB0019 / SB0216 (2025) – Building Opportunities for Nurses Act. Workforce/education & loan-repayment expansion. 

• HB0553 / SB0094 (2025) – Maternal Health: Self-Measured BP Monitoring (Medicaid). Clinical testimony highlighted feasibility and training needs. 

• HB1047 / SB0949 (2024) – Consumer Protection – Self–Administered Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kits. 

• HB0545 / SB0441 (2024) – Public School Nurses—Loan Assistance Repayment. Witness signup docket for this bill shows active testimony participation. 

• HB1127 / SB0950 (2024) – Sexual Assault Forensic Exams via Telehealth—Reimbursement & Study. Forensic nursing/community health expertise informed the record.

• HB0808 / SB0859 (2023) – Reproductive Health Protection Act. Health professionals weighed in on patient-safety and legal interfaces.