---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Occupations - Physician Assistants - Dispensing of Drugs Under a Delegation Agreement"
description: "Health Occupations - Physician Assistants - Dispensing of Drugs Under a Delegation Agreement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 591"
citation: "Maryland HB 591 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Controlled Dangerous Substances", "Drugs", "Health Occupations", "Identification", "Physician Assistants", "Physicians"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Platt"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-29"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a04801a-a291-440c-9a17-aceace5af7ae"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB591&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "e3a1c0119d60c0b4033ea25a6c64c9b798d1a418244a4518bcc760704b6e43f1"
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 591 (2018) — Health Occupations - Physician Assistants - Dispensing of Drugs Under a Delegation Agreement

## 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/hb0591f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Platt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-29** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-28** Favorable with Amendments {416980/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-02** Third Reading Passed (136-1) `passage`
- **2018-03-05** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 442 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a04801a-a291-440c-9a17-aceace5af7ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).