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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program – Modifications"
+description: "Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program – Modifications"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 782"
+citation: "Maryland HB 782 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Disabled", "Public Health", "Beneficiaries", "Committees and Commissions", "Death", "Estates and Trusts", "Federal Government", "Health Insurance", "Higher Education", "Revenue and Taxes"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Waldstreicher"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-01"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27dbba9a-6e31-4526-a398-d35a7ce4c9c0"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB782&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "9a38cd437b7192cbc2a138ec02f96015a376ab58afc5b461f122fcd1cb5825eb"
+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 782 (2018) — Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program – Modifications
+
+## 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/hb0782f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Miele — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — 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.
+
+- **2018-02-01** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {836283/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-15** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-16** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-19** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-28** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-30** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 390 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27dbba9a-6e31-4526-a398-d35a7ce4c9c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+