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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Upper Payment Limits"
description: "Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Upper Payment Limits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 279"
citation: "Maryland HB 279 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cullison"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-25"
last_action: "2023-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30512077-6da9-41c8-b8ca-1c505228b2ed"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0279?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "3c8c47e7f97659dab3f4697a967f538c3f7c15def5f151966e87bbf86ec2625f"
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 279 (2023) — Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Upper Payment Limits
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Upper Payment Limits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_39_hb0279t.pdf)
2. **First - Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Upper Payment Limits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0279f.pdf)
3. **Third - Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Upper Payment Limits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0279t.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Cullison — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-25** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Hearing 2/02 at 3:00 p.m.
- **2023-02-13** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-14** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-17** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2023-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 39 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30512077-6da9-41c8-b8ca-1c505228b2ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).