---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Coverage for Male Sterilization - High-Deductible Health Plans"
description: "Health Insurance - Coverage for Male Sterilization - High-Deductible Health Plans"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 137"
citation: "Maryland SB 137 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Administrative Agencies", "Contracts", "Emergency Bills", "Equipment", "Health Benefit Exchange", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Insurance Administration", "Insurance", "Legislative Services", "Department of", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Notices", "Reproductive Matters", "Sunset", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reilly"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-12"
last_action: "2018-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e9e88f5c-737e-49c6-ad1a-cb11f230d58d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB137&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "15f58cf5226edce314d4d4a4a98e05b5467c77e4a62286d33ce962aad8619165"
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 137 (2018) — Health Insurance - Coverage for Male Sterilization - High-Deductible Health Plans

## 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/sb0137t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-12** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-17** Hearing 1/31 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-22** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-23** Favorable with Amendments {607377/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-23** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-27** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-28** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 65 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e9e88f5c-737e-49c6-ad1a-cb11f230d58d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).