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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public Health - General Hospice Care Programs - Collection and Disposal of Unused Prescription Medication"
+description: "Public Health - General Hospice Care Programs - Collection and Disposal of Unused Prescription Medication"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 407"
+citation: "Maryland HB 407 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Health", "Administrative Agencies", "Assisted Living", "Death", "Drugs", "Health Occupations", "Hospices", "Liability", "Nursing Homes", "Patients", "Records", "Refuse Disposal", "Safety", "Witnesses"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cullison"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-24"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8bb3cf1c-5e8c-43ee-a435-1557ab48ae46"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB407&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "8c72495a902b464ba4f6cc2bea7b00a01fb497eaf66a2ad8d6d45a4c61a09406"
+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 407 (2018) — Public Health - General Hospice Care Programs - Collection and Disposal of Unused Prescription Medication
+
+## 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/hb0407f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- Barron — cosponsor (person)
+- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Miele — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — 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.
+
+- **2018-01-24** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-28** Favorable with Amendments {876589/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-02** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-05** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-29** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 439 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8bb3cf1c-5e8c-43ee-a435-1557ab48ae46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+