---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pharmacists - Substitution and Dispensing of Biological Products"
description: "Pharmacists - Substitution and Dispensing of Biological Products"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1273"
citation: "Maryland HB 1273 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Committees and Commissions", "Communications", "Consumer Protection", "Controlled Dangerous Substances", "Disclosure", "Drugs", "Electronic Communication", "Health", "Health and Mental Hygiene", "Department of", "Identification", "Pharmacists and Pharmacies", "Prices", "Public Information"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cullison"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8837ad18-8aff-4cae-9cae-0fb25092ee3f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1273&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "1c2e2c88a7c11e19cfb7f16f0aae09aa03a3809588625f18adcc8f6b39c5de79"
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 1273 (2017) — Pharmacists - Substitution and Dispensing of Biological Products

## 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/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1273f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cullison — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-10** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 726 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8837ad18-8aff-4cae-9cae-0fb25092ee3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).