---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Maintenance Organizations – Certificate of Need Requirements – Modification"
description: "Health Maintenance Organizations – Certificate of Need Requirements – Modification"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1282"
citation: "Maryland HB 1282 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care Facilities and Regulation", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Health", "Health Care Facilities", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Health Occupations", "Licenses", "Patients"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelly"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-09"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6be2a57-2f0f-47bf-9016-dba5774ddc7e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1282&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "54f0e3c537f8778319680e78820880b89dfb1d35ce464da90e5e9bace93bc637"
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 1282 (2018) — Health Maintenance Organizations – Certificate of Need Requirements – Modification

## 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/hb1282f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kelly — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-09** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-14** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {756982/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-06** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 448 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6be2a57-2f0f-47bf-9016-dba5774ddc7e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).