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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health Insurance - Coverage of Fertility Preservation Procedures for Iatrogenic Infertility"
+description: "Health Insurance - Coverage of Fertility Preservation Procedures for Iatrogenic Infertility"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 271"
+citation: "Maryland SB 271 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Administrative Agencies", "Assessments", "Chemical Tests", "Drugs", "Health", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Hospitals", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Religion", "Reproductive Matters", "Spouses", "Storage"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mathias"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-01-22"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c18c425-fe12-4a1d-95cd-e77eb90f1cdc"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB271&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "bf92c07056935ab414ef625ca200bba416f6046e86673dffcce9ad5bf544eddb"
+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 271 (2018) — Health Insurance - Coverage of Fertility Preservation Procedures for Iatrogenic Infertility
+
+## 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/sb0271f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **136–2** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mathias — primary (person)
+- Astle — cosponsor (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-22** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-24** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-14** Favorable with Amendments {737070/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-02-16** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-02-19** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Favorable with Amendments {656786/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-2) `passage`
+- **2018-03-29** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-29** Passed Enrolled
+- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 716 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c18c425-fe12-4a1d-95cd-e77eb90f1cdc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+