---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Coverage for Elevated or Impaired Blood Glucose Levels, Prediabetes, and Obesity Treatment"
description: "Health Insurance - Coverage for Elevated or Impaired Blood Glucose Levels, Prediabetes, and Obesity Treatment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 86"
citation: "Maryland HB 86 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Chemical Tests", "Contracts", "Dietitians and Nutritionists", "Diseases", "Education", "Equipment", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Health Occupations", "Health Planning and Cost Review", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Patients", "Pregnancy", "Reimbursement Rates", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barron"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-12"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54c512b1-f016-4e0e-b626-c053c271d126"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB86&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "08d5b0b9683803a581e405683b76efc18c8a2cabdb4c14c42c0888df8d28d6e7"
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 86 (2018) — Health Insurance - Coverage for Elevated or Impaired Blood Glucose Levels, Prediabetes, and Obesity Treatment

## 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/hb0086f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barron — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-12** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-17** Hearing 1/31 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Favorable with Amendments {976383/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-29** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Rereferred to Finance
- **2018-04-03** Hearing 4/04 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 432 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/54c512b1-f016-4e0e-b626-c053c271d126`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).