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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Life Insurance - Life of a Minor - Underwriting Standards and Procedures"
+description: "Life Insurance - Life of a Minor - Underwriting Standards and Procedures"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 168"
+citation: "Maryland SB 168 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Beneficiaries", "Communications", "Disclosure", "Fraud", "Insurance Administration", "Insurance", "Minors", "Records", "Signatures"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Feldman"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-15"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a300219-262c-4205-bf78-c9625ae72c6f"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB168&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "3e8b9c7ea8e0226dbffbd7d03f14e6d53a9e4a1402dd5bac8a1d5ee3dc6f4f64"
+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 168 (2018) — Life Insurance - Life of a Minor - Underwriting Standards and Procedures
+
+## 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/sb0168f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Feldman — primary (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-15** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-17** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-16** Favorable with Amendments {237578/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-02-20** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2018-02-21** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 431 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a300219-262c-4205-bf78-c9625ae72c6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+