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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Pharmacy Benefits Managers - Pharmacies and Pharmacists - Information on and Sales of Prescription Drugs"
+description: "Pharmacy Benefits Managers - Pharmacies and Pharmacists - Information on and Sales of Prescription Drugs"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 576"
+citation: "Maryland SB 576 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Health Occupations", "Drugs", "Health Occupations", "Pharmacists and Pharmacies", "Prices", "Retail Sales"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Klausmeier"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-31"
+last_action: "2018-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6dba5790-5e12-40d9-bb9c-1d2ca6ea0fb3"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB576&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "bbb32b0dacf098dd1bc113be665608c36747b40e31e25e02c8f11d51aff121c3"
+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 576 (2018) — Pharmacy Benefits Managers - Pharmacies and Pharmacists - Information on and Sales of Prescription Drugs
+
+## 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/sb0576f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Klausmeier — primary (person)
+- Astle — cosponsor (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-31** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-06** Favorable with Amendments {117276/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-09** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 218 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6dba5790-5e12-40d9-bb9c-1d2ca6ea0fb3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+