republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2023/hb-811.md

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Bill	Hospitals - Testing for Fentanyl (The Josh Siems Act)	Hospitals - Testing for Fentanyl (The Josh Siems Act)	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2023	HB 811	Maryland HB 811 (2023)	bill		enacted	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	3	14	0	2023-02-08	2023-05-03	openstates	ocd-bill/c74cb1ae-13cf-48ab-ba8a-bf61a9977bad	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0811?ys=2023RS&search=True	b26a6818a13bdf74c3a905913cdbde6ca57f59be2a8624e955047adc6912bc4f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. First - Hospitals - Overdoses - Testing for Fentanyl (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Hospitals - Testing for Fentanyl (The Josh Siems Act) (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/c74cb1ae-13cf-48ab-ba8a-bf61a9977bad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).