---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Coverage Requirements for Behavioral Health Disorders - Modifications"
description: "Health Insurance - Coverage Requirements for Behavioral Health Disorders - Modifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1127"
citation: "Maryland HB 1127 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelly"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-09"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b6af863-1dd0-4e6f-ad5a-dd9b832bc726"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1127&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "e2c8bdeb86c424b48cf071118666e75dbf4df83789923ec1b5562944c6ae50b1"
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 1127 (2017) — Health Insurance - Coverage Requirements for Behavioral Health Disorders - 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/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1127f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Kelly — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-09** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-22** Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-09** Hearing canceled
- **2017-03-09** Hearing 3/13 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 579 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b6af863-1dd0-4e6f-ad5a-dd9b832bc726`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).