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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Criminal Law - Distribution of Controlled Dangerous Substances - Fentanyl"
+description: "Criminal Law - Distribution of Controlled Dangerous Substances - Fentanyl"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 539"
+citation: "Maryland SB 539 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Controlled Dangerous Substances", "Crimes and Punishments", "Death", "Drugs", "Emergency Bills", "Good Samaritan", "Penalties and Sentences"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["The President (By Request - Administration) and Bates"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-01"
+last_action: "2017-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d60fdea4-ea55-423d-948b-dcac4be54066"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB539&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "295ccc61ebe4c42448478d089417d1484a361106b936bff75cacf29588471b68"
+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 SB 539 (2017) — Criminal Law - Distribution of Controlled Dangerous Substances - Fentanyl
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/sb/sb0539f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **46–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **132–8** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- The President (By Request - Administration) and Bates — primary (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Ready — cosponsor (person)
+- Salling — cosponsor (person)
+- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-01** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-15** Rereferred to Judicial Proceedings
+- **2017-02-16** Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {498670/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (46-1) `passage`
+- **2017-03-15** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-16** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-07** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (132-8) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
+- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 569 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d60fdea4-ea55-423d-948b-dcac4be54066`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+