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type: "Bill"
title: "Pharmacists - Dispensing of Prescription Drugs - Single Dispensing of Dosage Units"
description: "Pharmacists - Dispensing of Prescription Drugs - Single Dispensing of Dosage Units"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1558"
citation: "Maryland HB 1558 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Birth Control", "Controlled Dangerous Substances", "Drugs", "Patients", "Pharmacists and Pharmacies", "Time", "Weights and Measures"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Morales"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-09"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c775104-f7ec-4c17-a224-369ab6ff486b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1558&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "2217d9a8eb5341a24a314debb4ee4094972e74bf7706dcad9b060c66837b86ba"
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 1558 (2018) — Pharmacists - Dispensing of Prescription Drugs - Single Dispensing of Dosage Units
## 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/hb1558f.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **440** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **1380** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Morales — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — 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 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-19** Favorable with Amendments {896185/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-19** 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 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-23** Hearing canceled
- **2018-03-23** Reassigned to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2018-03-26** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Hearing canceled
- **2018-03-28** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-04** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 461 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c775104-f7ec-4c17-a224-369ab6ff486b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).