---
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: "SB 271"
citation: "Maryland SB 271 (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: ["Mathias"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-22"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c18c425-fe12-4a1d-95cd-e77eb90f1cdc"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB271&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "bf92c07056935ab414ef625ca200bba416f6046e86673dffcce9ad5bf544eddb"
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 271 (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/sb/sb0271f.pdf)

## Votes

- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–2** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-22** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-14** Favorable with Amendments {737070/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-16** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-19** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Favorable with Amendments {656786/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-2) `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 716 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c18c425-fe12-4a1d-95cd-e77eb90f1cdc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).