---
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: "SB 549"
citation: "Maryland SB 549 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Contracts", "Controlled Dangerous Substances", "Drugs", "Health Occupations", "Identification", "Licenses", "Physician Assistants", "Physicians"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Zucker and Conway"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/007732e7-6ea9-45e8-9d2c-67321fa9658a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB549&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "4ffeaa58661081cc5b2be7d7375e025dc89a09f772fdcb3521aaa8fb9febc2bb"
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 549 (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/sb/sb0549f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Zucker and Conway — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-31** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-21** Favorable with Amendments {784038/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-23** Third Reading Passed (40-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-26** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-05** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 443 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/007732e7-6ea9-45e8-9d2c-67321fa9658a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).