---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Health – General Hospice Care Programs – Collection and Disposal of Unused Prescription Medication"
description: "Public Health – General Hospice Care Programs – Collection and Disposal of Unused Prescription Medication"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 232"
citation: "Maryland SB 232 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Administrative Agencies", "Death", "Drugs", "Health Occupations", "Hospices", "Liability", "Patients", "Records", "Refuse Disposal", "Safety", "Witnesses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Feldman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-19"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ede1ec07-9a84-46a4-b2ae-b940039b6c36"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB232&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "463cc15d6cfd4b66d1ed04084de338eda40b4bbfabdab47fb33a2e2451c2e788"
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 232 (2018) — Public Health – General Hospice Care Programs – Collection and Disposal of Unused Prescription Medication

## 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/sb0232f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-14** Favorable with Amendments {257873/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-16** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-19** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 440 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ede1ec07-9a84-46a4-b2ae-b940039b6c36`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).