---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program - Contraceptive Drugs and Devices and Male Sterilization"
description: "State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program - Contraceptive Drugs and Devices and Male Sterilization"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1024"
citation: "Maryland HB 1024 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Personnel", "Insurance - Health", "Birth Control", "Budget and Management", "Department of", "Drugs", "Equipment", "Federal Government", "Gender", "Health", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Prices", "Religion", "Salaries and Compensation", "State Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hettleman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-07"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b701ba91-3e36-41ab-afda-330c614c12ee"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1024&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "ab574b3bf94df02671f3659e0214bdb527d7eb79b74243ea660565d5dff86975"
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 1024 (2018) — State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program - Contraceptive Drugs and Devices and Male Sterilization

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1024f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **133–3** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hettleman — primary (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-07** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Hearing 2/23 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {944965/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-14** Third Reading Passed (133-3) `passage`
- **2018-03-15** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-04** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (42-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 510 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b701ba91-3e36-41ab-afda-330c614c12ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).