---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Maryland Health Benefit Exchange - Small Business Tax Credit Subsidy"
description: "Health Insurance - Maryland Health Benefit Exchange - Small Business Tax Credit Subsidy"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1098"
citation: "Maryland HB 1098 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Commerce and Business", "Health Benefit Exchange", "Health Insurance", "Insurance Administration", "Revenue and Taxes", "Small Business", "State Aid", "Tax Credits", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kipke"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45ec1acb-2414-4d33-899d-12e4dfdb16a5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1098&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "96bb61b76760dc0e48f485e69354ae75b661cb1680be5f3f0c01da66aa7afccb"
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 HB 1098 (2019) — Health Insurance - Maryland Health Benefit Exchange - Small Business Tax Credit Subsidy

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb1098f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kipke — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {196483/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 401 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/45ec1acb-2414-4d33-899d-12e4dfdb16a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).