---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pharmacy Benefits Managers - Revisions"
description: "Pharmacy Benefits Managers - Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1349"
citation: "Maryland HB 1349 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Appeals", "Beneficiaries", "Claims", "Committees and Commissions", "Contracts", "Disclosure", "Drugs", "Electronic Communication", "Fees", "Fines", "Hearings", "Insurance Administration", "Investigations and Inquiries", "Notices", "Pharmacy Benefits Managers", "Pharmacists and Pharmacies", "Prices", "Records", "Reimbursement Rates"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-09"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6a775cf-5c81-433c-8499-ba884bc511d4"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1349&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "6dfc528c525b24e3ed150ab4d459d21a782280da02f0f0c8b7cce013c52ff818"
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 1349 (2018) — Pharmacy Benefits Managers - Revisions

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1349f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Anderton — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-09** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-14** Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {396081/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Hearing canceled
- **2018-03-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Favorable with Amendments {587573/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-03** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2018-04-03** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-03** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 451 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d6a775cf-5c81-433c-8499-ba884bc511d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).