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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances"
+description: "Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 548"
+citation: "Maryland HB 548 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "Fair", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "Ruth", "S. Johnson", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2024-01-24"
+last_action: "2024-05-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c14af6a6-3054-41d8-9ddf-ad5e424e1170"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0548?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "f17a61e55f83438092df197c0c57462f1246eae7b3c4fa2978414c0081a18798"
+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 548 (2024) — Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_792_hb0548t.pdf)
+2. **First - Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0548f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0548t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **136–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alston — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Fair — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Hutchinson — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- Martinez — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- Ruth — primary (person)
+- S. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Taveras — primary (person)
+- White Holland — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-24** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-07** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-14** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-28** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-29** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
+- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 792 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c14af6a6-3054-41d8-9ddf-ad5e424e1170`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+