---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pharmacists - Status as Health Care Providers and Study on Reimbursement"
description: "Pharmacists - Status as Health Care Providers and Study on Reimbursement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1219"
citation: "Maryland HB 1219 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bhandari"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-02-11"
last_action: "2022-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bcf2f71-5ce0-456f-aa05-f0918c07b2c9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1219?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "17501aaef79128c51e6550f0e25542b27f702bd19f57a822a1d9d03fb166c80c"
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 1219 (2022) — Pharmacists - Status as Health Care Providers and Study on Reimbursement

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Pharmacists - Status as Health Care Providers and Study on Reimbursement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_371_hb1219t.pdf)
2. **First - Pharmacists - Status as Health Care Providers and Reimbursement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb1219f.pdf)
3. **Third - Pharmacists - Status as Health Care Providers and Study on Reimbursement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb1219t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **125–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bhandari — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-11** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** Hearing 3/03 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-04** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-05** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 371 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2bcf2f71-5ce0-456f-aa05-f0918c07b2c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).