---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Health Benefit Exchange - Establishment of a Reinsurance Program"
description: "Maryland Health Benefit Exchange - Establishment of a Reinsurance Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 1267"
citation: "Maryland SB 1267 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Emergency Bills", "Federal Government", "Health Benefit Exchange", "Health Insurance", "Insurance Administration", "Medical Assistance", "Prices", "Rules and Regulations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Middleton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-14"
last_action: "2018-04-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12837865-8758-4a3e-936d-6bf6e37f1b46"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1267&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "b3faa61a87dc75e77caf340e6d485f19a60f24d4b177901b4578143ff5b3d4ac"
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 SB 1267 (2018) — Maryland Health Benefit Exchange - Establishment of a Reinsurance Program

## 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/sb/sb1267f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **43–4** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **130–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Middleton — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-14** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Motion Rules Suspended for late introduction (Senator Middleton) Adopted
- **2018-03-14** Motion Rules Suspended Referred (Senator Middleton) Adopted
- **2018-03-14** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {377071/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Special Order until later today (Senator Hough) Adopted
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {377071/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (43-4) `passage`
- **2018-03-20** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-23** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed (130-6) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-05** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 7 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12837865-8758-4a3e-936d-6bf6e37f1b46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).