---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Board of Pharmacy - Renewal Notices - Electronic Means"
description: "State Board of Pharmacy - Renewal Notices - Electronic Means"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 565"
citation: "Maryland HB 565 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hutchinson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e57f0e56-2a2e-402f-a91f-5d87b9449caa"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0565?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "5027096f62a7cfe2270431f9a210bfc565d981628110588c697303b96867c4d6"
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 565 (2025) — State Board of Pharmacy - Renewal Notices - Electronic Means

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Board of Pharmacy - Renewal Notices - Electronic Means** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_307_hb0565t.pdf)
2. **First - State Board of Pharmacy - Renewal Notices - Electronic Means** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0565f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Board of Pharmacy - Renewal Notices - Electronic Means** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0565t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hutchinson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-17** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-21** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 307 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e57f0e56-2a2e-402f-a91f-5d87b9449caa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).