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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: "SB 522"
+citation: "Maryland SB 522 (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: ["Klausmeier"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-01-29"
+last_action: "2018-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df4fdf0f-fb17-4e06-a007-c6576e18038c"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB522&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "7fc573efe581970158c0645fa8a488718fad0c4c9a1295a49b30d2dc450bc700"
+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 522 (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/sb/sb0522f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **130–4** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Klausmeier — primary (person)
+- Bates — cosponsor (person)
+- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
+- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Muse — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Salling — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-29** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-29** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {434233/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-20** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-28** Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {426989/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (130-4) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
+- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 216 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df4fdf0f-fb17-4e06-a007-c6576e18038c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+