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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Pharmacists - Dispensing of Prescription Drugs - Single Dispensing of Dosage Units"
+description: "Pharmacists - Dispensing of Prescription Drugs - Single Dispensing of Dosage Units"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1558"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1558 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Birth Control", "Controlled Dangerous Substances", "Drugs", "Patients", "Pharmacists and Pharmacies", "Time", "Weights and Measures"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Morales"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-09"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c775104-f7ec-4c17-a224-369ab6ff486b"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1558&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "2217d9a8eb5341a24a314debb4ee4094972e74bf7706dcad9b060c66837b86ba"
+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 1558 (2018) — Pharmacists - Dispensing of Prescription Drugs - Single Dispensing of Dosage Units
+
+## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1558f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Morales — primary (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
+- Barron — cosponsor (person)
+- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- Lam — cosponsor (person)
+- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Miele — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-09** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-14** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-19** Favorable with Amendments {896185/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-23** Hearing canceled
+- **2018-03-23** Reassigned to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
+- **2018-03-26** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-26** Hearing canceled
+- **2018-03-28** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-04** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-06** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 461 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c775104-f7ec-4c17-a224-369ab6ff486b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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