---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Authority and Stakeholder Council Membership (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Now Act)"
description: "Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Authority and Stakeholder Council Membership (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Now Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 424"
citation: "Maryland HB 424 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/301a695b-abdd-413c-b92d-695e601fd6ed"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0424?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ceb82ed40b12552ab9685ed79c50d972a8b4306f0200bdc0d4e8372d157247a8"
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 424 (2025) — Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Authority and Stakeholder Council Membership (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Now Act)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Authority and Stakeholder Council Membership (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Now Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_611_hb0424e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Authority and Stakeholder Council Membership (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Now Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0424e.pdf)
3. **First - Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Authority for Upper Payment Limits (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Now Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0424f.pdf)
4. **Third - Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Authority for Upper Payment Limits (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Now Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0424t.pdf)

## Votes

- FLA Del. Pippy /503520/1 — **36–98** (fail) · lower
- FLA Del. Buckel /783722/1 — **36–96** (fail) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **33–12** (pass) · upper
- FLA Del. Rose /113920/1 — **35–97** (fail) · lower
- FLA Del. Hornberger /573427/1 — **37–97** (fail) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **100–38** (pass) · lower
- FLA Del. Buckel /293321/1 — **34–100** (fail) · lower
- FLA Del. Hartman /573729/1 — **36–98** (fail) · lower
- FLA Del. Griffith /583124/1 — **38–95** (fail) · lower
- On Third Reading — **94–38** (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)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Motion Special Order until 02/19 (Delegate Buckel) Adopted
- **2025-02-19** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-02-19** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-02-19** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-02-19** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-02-19** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-02-19** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-02-19** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-02-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-24** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 611 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/301a695b-abdd-413c-b92d-695e601fd6ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).