---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Licensed Clinical Professional Art Therapists - Reimbursement"
description: "Health Insurance - Licensed Clinical Professional Art Therapists - Reimbursement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 298"
citation: "Maryland HB 298 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Art", "Music and Cultural Affairs", "Contracts", "Counselors", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Licenses", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Reimbursement Rates", "Social Workers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelly"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-25"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d452f59f-ac18-47d7-a244-59a4659eeabf"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB298&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "87b0ea930e5787434d68e698e4dc05c091e30e5aaf3045212ca638a096816125"
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 298 (2017) — Health Insurance - Licensed Clinical Professional Art Therapists - Reimbursement

## 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/hb0298f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Kelly — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-25** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/09 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-21** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-22** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-22** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-24** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-27** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-03** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 219 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d452f59f-ac18-47d7-a244-59a4659eeabf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).