---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Required Conformity With Federal Law"
description: "Health Insurance - Required Conformity With Federal Law"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 123"
citation: "Maryland HB 123 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Consumer Protection", "Contracts", "Diseases", "Domestic Violence", "Federal Government", "Health", "Health Insurance", "Medical Assistance", "Patients", "Rules and Regulations", "Small Business", "Time", "Victims", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0450771-ab52-41ce-b9d6-ad8a21a74052"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB123&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "1e49a8d40f4ba8766556d075025d60381ca430f8437cff3aeacbf1048566355e"
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 123 (2017) — Health Insurance - Required Conformity With Federal Law

## 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/hb0123f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **134–6** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Health and Government Operations Committee (By Request - Departmental - Maryland Insurance Administration) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-22** Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-20** Favorable with Amendments {746788/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (134-6) `passage`
- **2017-03-21** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 720 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e0450771-ab52-41ce-b9d6-ad8a21a74052`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).