---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program - Contraceptive Drugs and Devices and Male Sterilization"
description: "State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program - Contraceptive Drugs and Devices and Male Sterilization"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 986"
citation: "Maryland SB 986 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Personnel", "Insurance - Health", "Birth Control", "Budget and Management", "Department of", "Drugs", "Equipment", "Gender", "Health", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Salaries and Compensation", "State Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelley"]
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/65adce0b-dc87-4cd6-a19b-190c3f63db68"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB986&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "bc37693a8c093ef7eab893c720f19bf8c32a4e41fc517fd04e9b89270a75c866"
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 986 (2018) — State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program - Contraceptive Drugs and Devices and Male Sterilization

## 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/sb0986f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Kelley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-05** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {347178/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-20** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-23** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed (136-2) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 511 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/65adce0b-dc87-4cd6-a19b-190c3f63db68`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).