---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance – Technical Corrections and Required Conformity With Federal Law"
description: "Health Insurance – Technical Corrections and Required Conformity With Federal Law"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 54"
citation: "Maryland SB 54 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Corrective Legislation", "Federal Government", "Health Benefit Exchange", "Health Insurance", "Health Occupations", "Insurance", "Salaries and Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-09-19"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c254ade-f6b7-46a5-a38d-0acef51664e3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB54&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "4b10df524cf02dc43f82da90de40dc39aa0fb206f34f1cd943a4112abe16a43b"
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 54 (2018) — Health Insurance – Technical Corrections and Required Conformity With Federal Law

## 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/sb0054f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **43–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Finance Committee (By Request - Departmental - Maryland Insurance Administration) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-09-19** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-03** Hearing 1/11 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2018-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {267173/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-15** Third Reading Passed (43-2) `passage`
- **2018-03-15** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-06** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 665 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c254ade-f6b7-46a5-a38d-0acef51664e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).