---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Care Providers - Prescription Opioids - Limits on Prescribing (The Prescriber Limits Act of 2017)"
description: "Health Care Providers - Prescription Opioids - Limits on Prescribing (The Prescriber Limits Act of 2017)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1432"
citation: "Maryland HB 1432 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Public Health", "Committees and Commissions", "Controlled Dangerous Substances", "Dentists", "Discipline", "Drugs", "Emergency Bills", "Health and Mental Hygiene", "Department of", "Health Occupations", "Nurses", "Physicians", "Podiatrists", "Registration", "Rules and Regulations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1d98f4b8-f6a1-49aa-8f00-f53518e2d7ac"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1432&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "2d19546e8e9e545f991d35ec95e37a77efab8a722742e5c84087f7d922f552ed"
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 1432 (2017) — Health Care Providers - Prescription Opioids - Limits on Prescribing (The Prescriber Limits Act of 2017)

## 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/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1432f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- B. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Folden — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Health and Government Operations Committee (By Request - Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene) and Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-10** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-31** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Favorable with Amendments {526580/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Rereferred to Finance
- **2017-04-06** Hearing 4/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Hearing canceled
- **2017-04-06** Reassigned to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2017-04-06** Hearing 4/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 570 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1d98f4b8-f6a1-49aa-8f00-f53518e2d7ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).