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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health Care Providers - Opioid and Benzodiazepine Prescriptions - Discussion of Benefits and Risks"
+description: "Health Care Providers - Opioid and Benzodiazepine Prescriptions - Discussion of Benefits and Risks"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 653"
+citation: "Maryland HB 653 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Public Health", "Controlled Dangerous Substances", "Discipline", "Drugs", "Health", "Health Occupations", "Minors", "Notices", "Parents and Guardians", "Patients", "Penalties and Sentences", "Records", "Review Boards"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["K. Young"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-29"
+last_action: "2018-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee1a160d-63df-4671-97f8-8eb39c71abd0"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB653&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "dc7f4d39ab6c6f5c93ec3da7dc67304ca366cdc808712fa3969dfaf29a529f1c"
+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 653 (2018) — Health Care Providers - Opioid and Benzodiazepine Prescriptions - Discussion of Benefits and Risks
+
+## 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/hb0653f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **131–6** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- K. Young — primary (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- Barron — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
+- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
+- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
+- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
+- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Vogt — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-29** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-02** Hearing canceled
+- **2018-02-02** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {516289/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed (131-6) `passage`
+- **2018-04-05** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-09** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
+- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-09** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-10** Returned Passed
+- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 215 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ee1a160d-63df-4671-97f8-8eb39c71abd0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+