---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Prescription Contraceptives - Coverage for Single Dispensing"
description: "Health Insurance - Prescription Contraceptives - Coverage for Single Dispensing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1283"
citation: "Maryland HB 1283 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Agents and Brokers", "Birth Control", "Drugs", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Time"]
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/b1df6d21-438f-43a3-92f8-707f53916ddc"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1283&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "990b169132f66980720de28b020e466ebc03e08fee8900a7efbee7c4dafee61d"
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 1283 (2018) — Health Insurance - Prescription Contraceptives - Coverage for Single Dispensing

## 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/hb1283f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–1** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kelly — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Ali — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Barve — cosponsor (person)
- Branch — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
- Frick — cosponsor (person)
- Frush — cosponsor (person)
- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Haynes — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Proctor — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (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 {416482/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (135-1) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-05** 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 (44-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 450 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b1df6d21-438f-43a3-92f8-707f53916ddc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).