---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Coverage for Elevated or Impaired Blood Glucose Levels, Prediabetes, and Obesity Treatment"
description: "Health Insurance - Coverage for Elevated or Impaired Blood Glucose Levels, Prediabetes, and Obesity Treatment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 656"
citation: "Maryland SB 656 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Chemical Tests", "Contracts", "Dietitians and Nutritionists", "Diseases", "Education", "Equipment", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Health Occupations", "Patients", "Pregnancy", "Reimbursement Rates", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Benson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-01"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1824fcaa-254b-468e-8804-1a51dffc73ba"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB656&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "0ccf15f69516adfe9a3e9d50df2b95c56c132b0617cd0b690921412ca41a2c67"
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 656 (2018) — Health Insurance - Coverage for Elevated or Impaired Blood Glucose Levels, Prediabetes, and Obesity Treatment

## 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/sb0656f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Benson — primary (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-01** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Favorable with Amendments {837172/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-30** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-30** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
- **2018-04-02** Hearing 4/04 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
- **2018-04-07** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 433 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1824fcaa-254b-468e-8804-1a51dffc73ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).