---
type: "Bill"
title: "Controlled Dangerous Substances - Distributors - Reporting Suspicious Orders"
description: "Controlled Dangerous Substances - Distributors - Reporting Suspicious Orders"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1480"
citation: "Maryland HB 1480 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Public Safety", "Public Health", "Attorney General", "Controlled Dangerous Substances", "Dealers", "Disclosure", "Health", "Department of", "Privacy", "Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["The Speaker (By Request - Office of the Attorney General) and Anderson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-09"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f2e5ad8-5aab-4388-a31b-0df9684d08c6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1480&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "d23cbc8d4d23aa8f8472080c5ffef6928d8b07e554f707f15c4210eba80d53ed"
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 1480 (2018) — Controlled Dangerous Substances - Distributors - Reporting Suspicious Orders

## 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/hb1480f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- The Speaker (By Request - Office of the Attorney General) and Anderson — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — 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)
- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — 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 3/07 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 {526989/1 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 Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 592 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f2e5ad8-5aab-4388-a31b-0df9684d08c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).