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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health Insurance - Qualified Resident Enrollment Program (Access to Care Act)"
+description: "Health Insurance - Qualified Resident Enrollment Program (Access to Care Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 705"
+citation: "Maryland SB 705 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hayes", "Lam"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2024-01-30"
+last_action: "2024-05-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30ee4cbc-1f6d-4055-938b-cb6b3fffdee5"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0705?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "dad3f1ccd24c989f390993b5ad4542ab0e78f35325d9773e019568895cad0dc8"
+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 705 (2024) — Health Insurance - Qualified Resident Enrollment Program (Access to Care Act)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Health Insurance - Qualified Resident Enrollment Program (Access to Care Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_841_sb0705t.pdf)
+2. **First - Health Insurance - Qualified Resident Enrollment Program (Access to Care Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0705f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Health Insurance - Qualified Resident Enrollment Program (Access to Care Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0705t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Floor Amendment Mautz /273024/1 — **14–32** (fail) · upper
+- Floor Amendment Folden /123521/1 — **15–30** (fail) · upper
+- Floor Amendment McKay /853222/1 — **14–32** (fail) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **100–38** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **34–13** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hayes — primary (person)
+- Lam — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-30** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-02** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-05** Committee Amendment Adopted
+- **2024-03-05** Motion Special Order until 3/6 (Senator Folden) Adopted
+- **2024-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-06** Floor Amendment {
+- **2024-03-06** Floor Amendment {
+- **2024-03-06** Floor Amendment {
+- **2024-03-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-03-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-11** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-16** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-25** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-26** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-26** Second Reading Passed
+- **2024-03-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-28** Returned Passed
+- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 841 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30ee4cbc-1f6d-4055-938b-cb6b3fffdee5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+