---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pharmacy Benefits Managers - Pharmacies and Pharmacists - Information on and Sales of Prescription Drugs"
description: "Pharmacy Benefits Managers - Pharmacies and Pharmacists - Information on and Sales of Prescription Drugs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 736"
citation: "Maryland HB 736 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Health Occupations", "Drugs", "Health Occupations", "Pharmacists and Pharmacies", "Prices", "Retail Sales"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bromwell"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-01"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c26edec9-2243-40cc-bc6f-9afd84025e80"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB736&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "f0a565fe696e9f292dec8d37908983a8c0debe45f337cfc1d098edd3b32713a4"
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 736 (2018) — Pharmacy Benefits Managers - Pharmacies and Pharmacists - Information on and Sales of Prescription Drugs

## 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/hb0736f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bromwell — primary (person)
- Anderton — cosponsor (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-01** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-14** Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {556082/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-30** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 217 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c26edec9-2243-40cc-bc6f-9afd84025e80`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).