---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Occupations - Pharmacists - Administration of Vaccines"
description: "Health Occupations - Pharmacists - Administration of Vaccines"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 76"
citation: "Maryland HB 76 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-10-30"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15fc935c-d335-48a5-a9aa-7a78fcaadf93"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0076?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "512f9bc6d9cb5002432dc2eb95f224ed99c8d6739f20349eabf67a10568c08fc"
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 76 (2024) — Health Occupations - Pharmacists - Administration of Vaccines

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health Occupations - Pharmacists - Administration of Vaccines** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_231_hb0076t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Occupations - Pharmacists - Administration of Vaccines** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0076f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Occupations - Pharmacists - Administration of Vaccines** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0076t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **35–10** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **98–36** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-10-30** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Hearing 2/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-14** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-03-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 231 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15fc935c-d335-48a5-a9aa-7a78fcaadf93`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).