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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Managed Care Organizations That Use Pharmacy Benefits Managers – Audit and Professional Dispensing Fees"
+description: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Managed Care Organizations That Use Pharmacy Benefits Managers – Audit and Professional Dispensing Fees"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 589"
+citation: "Maryland HB 589 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Auditors and Audits", "Contracts", "Data", "Drugs", "Emergency Bills", "Fees", "Health", "Department of", "Insurance", "Managed Care Organizations", "Medical Assistance", "Pharmacy Benefits Managers", "Pharmacists and Pharmacies", "Prices", "Reimbursement Rates", "Reports", "Sunset"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barron"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-04"
+last_action: "2019-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d00575c-7c45-4996-9b14-a093ed724a01"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB589&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "6e508d2d4749b4335926eeb8c189cd7d2206ebd382b37a83a0cbeacb074b62dd"
+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 589 (2019) — Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Managed Care Organizations That Use Pharmacy Benefits Managers – Audit and Professional Dispensing Fees
+
+## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0589f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barron — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
+- Bhandari — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles — cosponsor (person)
+- Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-04** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-13** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {676183/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-18** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 534 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d00575c-7c45-4996-9b14-a093ed724a01`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+