---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospitals - Testing for Fentanyl (The Josh Siems Act)"
description: "Hospitals - Testing for Fentanyl (The Josh Siems Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 811"
citation: "Maryland HB 811 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Barve", "Bhandari", "Boafo", "Boyce", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Fair", "Grossman", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Miller", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Taveras", "Vogel", "Watson", "White", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-08"
last_action: "2023-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c74cb1ae-13cf-48ab-ba8a-bf61a9977bad"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0811?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "b26a6818a13bdf74c3a905913cdbde6ca57f59be2a8624e955047adc6912bc4f"
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 811 (2023) — Hospitals - Testing for Fentanyl (The Josh Siems Act)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Hospitals - Testing for Fentanyl (The Josh Siems Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_325_hb0811t.pdf)
2. **First - Hospitals - Overdoses - Testing for Fentanyl** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0811f.pdf)
3. **Third - Hospitals - Testing for Fentanyl (The Josh Siems Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0811t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Barve — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Boafo — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Grossman — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Vogel — primary (person)
- Watson — primary (person)
- White — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-15** Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-21** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-21** Hearing canceled
- **2023-03-31** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-31** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2023-05-03** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 325 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c74cb1ae-13cf-48ab-ba8a-bf61a9977bad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).