---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance – Access to Local Health Departments"
description: "Health Insurance – Access to Local Health Departments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 858"
citation: "Maryland SB 858 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Agents and Brokers", "Health Care Facilities", "Health", "Department of", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Mental and Behavioral Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rosapepe"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-05"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1d9f38c-78d4-4fab-9536-23246d28f50c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB858&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "eba5badbecaecda9e05dfb6186af71dc6039775d3e920d0d4a5dfefc84b56ab8"
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 858 (2018) — Health Insurance – Access to Local Health Departments

## 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/sb0858f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-05** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {107774/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-20** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 488 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1d9f38c-78d4-4fab-9536-23246d28f50c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).