---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program – Modifications"
description: "Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program – Modifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 550"
citation: "Maryland SB 550 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Disabled", "Public Health", "Agents and Brokers", "Beneficiaries", "Death", "Estates and Trusts", "Federal Government", "Health Insurance", "Investments", "Revenue and Taxes", "Time", "Tuition"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Zucker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd00fd81-6050-4687-9b5b-2810092849de"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB550&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "64d9bb39b9b79050bdf36af4f17e53a413f768111cbfaa4683d5e105fa278ed0"
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 550 (2018) — Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program – Modifications

## 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/sb0550f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Zucker — primary (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-31** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Favorable with Amendments {309138/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/21 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 {456280/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 391 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd00fd81-6050-4687-9b5b-2810092849de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).