---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Health Care Commission – Electronic Prescription Records System – Assessment and Report"
description: "Maryland Health Care Commission – Electronic Prescription Records System – Assessment and Report"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 13"
citation: "Maryland SB 13 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Public Health", "Assessments", "Data", "Disclosure", "Drugs", "Electronic Communication", "Fees", "Health", "Health Benefit Exchange", "Health Care Commission", "Health Occupations", "Notices", "Patients", "Pharmacists and Pharmacies", "Prices", "Records", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Sunset"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rosapepe"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-06-09"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67e1d528-0d0a-4150-b20c-3233b35073be"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB13&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "be1fa0f7b783cffa1583ea1319f193c4d31fd67a371bd54819764cb42734a005"
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 SB 13 (2018) — Maryland Health Care Commission – Electronic Prescription Records System – Assessment and Report

## 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/sb/sb0013f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rosapepe — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-06-09** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-17** Hearing 1/31 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {827375/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-20** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-07** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 436 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/67e1d528-0d0a-4150-b20c-3233b35073be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).