---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Coverage of Fertility Preservation Procedures for Iatrogenic Infertility"
description: "Health Insurance - Coverage of Fertility Preservation Procedures for Iatrogenic Infertility"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 908"
citation: "Maryland HB 908 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Administrative Agencies", "Assessments", "Chemical Tests", "Drugs", "Health", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Hospitals", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Religion", "Reproductive Matters", "Spouses", "Storage"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pena-Melnyk"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-05"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c457e7cd-eaff-4d72-8299-9f6344bc410d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB908&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "0c689fc7adc31ea9f2100416b06c864b3ecef94dd8a926bb06ce20c2684294a7"
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 908 (2018) — Health Insurance - Coverage of Fertility Preservation Procedures for Iatrogenic Infertility

## 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/hb0908f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **133–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Frick — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-05** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-14** Hearing 2/22 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 {416183/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-15** Third Reading Passed (133-2) `passage`
- **2018-03-16** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-30** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 715 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c457e7cd-eaff-4d72-8299-9f6344bc410d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).