---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program – Modifications"
description: "Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program – Modifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 782"
citation: "Maryland HB 782 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Disabled", "Public Health", "Beneficiaries", "Committees and Commissions", "Death", "Estates and Trusts", "Federal Government", "Health Insurance", "Higher Education", "Revenue and Taxes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Waldstreicher"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-01"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27dbba9a-6e31-4526-a398-d35a7ce4c9c0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB782&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "9a38cd437b7192cbc2a138ec02f96015a376ab58afc5b461f122fcd1cb5825eb"
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 782 (2018) — Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program – Modifications

## 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/hb0782f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-01** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {836283/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-15** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-16** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-30** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 390 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27dbba9a-6e31-4526-a398-d35a7ce4c9c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).