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type: "Bill"
title: "Health Care Providers - Opioid and Benzodiazepine Prescriptions - Discussion of Benefits and Risks"
description: "Health Care Providers - Opioid and Benzodiazepine Prescriptions - Discussion of Benefits and Risks"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 522"
citation: "Maryland SB 522 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Occupations", "Public Health", "Controlled Dangerous Substances", "Discipline", "Drugs", "Health", "Health Occupations", "Minors", "Notices", "Parents and Guardians", "Patients", "Penalties and Sentences", "Records", "Review Boards"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Klausmeier"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-29"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df4fdf0f-fb17-4e06-a007-c6576e18038c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB522&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "7fc573efe581970158c0645fa8a488718fad0c4c9a1295a49b30d2dc450bc700"
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 SB 522 (2018) — Health Care Providers - Opioid and Benzodiazepine Prescriptions - Discussion of Benefits and Risks
## 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/sb/sb0522f.pdf)
## Votes
- On third reading — **450** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **1304** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **470** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Klausmeier — primary (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Muse — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-29** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {434233/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-20** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-28** Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {426989/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (130-4) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 216 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df4fdf0f-fb17-4e06-a007-c6576e18038c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).