---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prescription Drug Monitoring Program – Data Request Exemption – Surgical Procedures"
description: "Prescription Drug Monitoring Program – Data Request Exemption – Surgical Procedures"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 517"
citation: "Maryland HB 517 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Health Occupations", "Health Care Facilities and Regulation", "Data", "Drugs", "Exemptions", "Health", "Pharmacists and Pharmacies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-26"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/03751a1a-2375-405b-aa6a-64fec73ea9cc"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB517&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "e13b2ab796bcc46b4c94da496af135f880b8c724068f1e71f4c6f52ea0721090"
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 517 (2018) — Prescription Drug Monitoring Program – Data Request Exemption – Surgical Procedures

## 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/hb/hb0517f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-26** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {296184/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Favorable with Amendments {987472/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-03** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2018-04-03** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-03** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 772 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/03751a1a-2375-405b-aa6a-64fec73ea9cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).