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type: "Bill"
title: "Public Health - Phenibut Consumer Protection Act (JT Alvey Phenibut Consumer Protection Act)"
description: "Public Health - Phenibut Consumer Protection Act (JT Alvey Phenibut Consumer Protection Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 996"
citation: "Maryland HB 996 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "Ross", "S. Johnson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a15ea96a-49ec-4f6f-b084-1778dec33067"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0996?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "36bfdd930e03ed2be77ee30d501124509217eb8020599510b7d9fa4e6278928e"
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 996 (2025) — Public Health - Phenibut Consumer Protection Act (JT Alvey Phenibut Consumer Protection Act)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Public Health - Phenibut Consumer Protection Act (JT Alvey Phenibut Consumer Protection Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_704_hb0996t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Health - Phenibut Consumer Protection Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0996f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Health - Phenibut Consumer Protection Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0996t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **470** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **1380** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — 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)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Ross — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-31** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 704 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a15ea96a-49ec-4f6f-b084-1778dec33067`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).