---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Coverage for Digital Tomosynthesis"
description: "Health Insurance - Coverage for Digital Tomosynthesis"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 61"
citation: "Maryland SB 61 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Diseases", "Emergency Bills", "Examinations", "Health", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Health Planning and Cost Review", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Patients"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mathias"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2016-10-12"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1b04846-f71b-4530-ac42-211c4e04d1c5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB61&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "1940e46e820cf0885ca8f02016f6dd1a07c26524816787dd43599187db8ea3be"
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 61 (2017) — Health Insurance - Coverage for Digital Tomosynthesis

## 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/sb/sb0061f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Mathias — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-10-12** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-11** Hearing 1/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-07** Favorable with Amendments {887675/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-09** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-10** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 677 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d1b04846-f71b-4530-ac42-211c4e04d1c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).