---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Provider Panels - Credentialing Practices"
description: "Health Insurance - Provider Panels - Credentialing Practices"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1310"
citation: "Maryland HB 1310 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Health Care Facilities", "Health Insurance", "Health Occupations", "Insurance Administration", "Licenses", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Notices", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ghrist"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-09"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dbc39943-bda7-4b24-8e3b-9e230d88f449"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1310&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "840eb8791f7385d2816a6fe287443e7d2e7195da794d3cc4a64740973087d01e"
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 1310 (2018) — Health Insurance - Provider Panels - Credentialing Practices

## 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/hb1310f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ghrist — primary (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — 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 3/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-30** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable with Amendments {796488/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-03** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-04** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-09** Rereferred to Finance
- **2018-04-09** Hearing 4/09 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 247 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dbc39943-bda7-4b24-8e3b-9e230d88f449`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).