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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Authority and Stakeholder Council Membership (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Now Act)"
+description: "Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Authority and Stakeholder Council Membership (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Now Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 424"
+citation: "Maryland HB 424 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 10
+first_action: "2025-01-16"
+last_action: "2025-05-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/301a695b-abdd-413c-b92d-695e601fd6ed"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0424?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "ceb82ed40b12552ab9685ed79c50d972a8b4306f0200bdc0d4e8372d157247a8"
+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 424 (2025) — Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Authority and Stakeholder Council Membership (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Now Act)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Authority and Stakeholder Council Membership (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Now Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_611_hb0424e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Authority and Stakeholder Council Membership (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Now Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0424e.pdf)
+3. **First - Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Authority for Upper Payment Limits (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Now Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0424f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Authority for Upper Payment Limits (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Now Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0424t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FLA Del. Pippy /503520/1 — **36–98** (fail) · lower
+- FLA Del. Buckel /783722/1 — **36–96** (fail) · lower
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **33–12** (pass) · upper
+- FLA Del. Rose /113920/1 — **35–97** (fail) · lower
+- FLA Del. Hornberger /573427/1 — **37–97** (fail) · lower
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **100–38** (pass) · lower
+- FLA Del. Buckel /293321/1 — **34–100** (fail) · lower
+- FLA Del. Hartman /573729/1 — **36–98** (fail) · lower
+- FLA Del. Griffith /583124/1 — **38–95** (fail) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **94–38** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alston — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- Martinez — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- S. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Taveras — primary (person)
+- White Holland — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+- Woorman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-16** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-21** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-02-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-18** Motion Special Order until 02/19 (Delegate Buckel) Adopted
+- **2025-02-19** Floor Amendment {
+- **2025-02-19** Floor Amendment {
+- **2025-02-19** Floor Amendment {
+- **2025-02-19** Floor Amendment {
+- **2025-02-19** Floor Amendment {
+- **2025-02-19** Floor Amendment {
+- **2025-02-19** Floor Amendment {
+- **2025-02-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-02-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-24** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** House Concurs Senate Amendments
+- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
+- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 611 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/301a695b-abdd-413c-b92d-695e601fd6ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+