---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Coverage Requirements for Behavioral Health Disorders - Short-Term Limited Duration Insurance"
description: "Health Insurance - Coverage Requirements for Behavioral Health Disorders - Short-Term Limited Duration Insurance"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 28"
citation: "Maryland SB 28 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Health", "Health Insurance", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Substance Abuse"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-10-15"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e4712fc-c2f1-4879-b38b-e98cd81d9930"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB28&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "0b92f252ca546b585b4c1b7627ba21064f247a4d28d769209e109685abe426da"
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 28 (2019) — Health Insurance - Coverage Requirements for Behavioral Health Disorders - Short-Term Limited Duration Insurance

## 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/sb/sb0028f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Finance Committee (By Request - Departmental - Maryland Insurance Administration) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-10-15** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-09** Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-01-25** Hearing canceled
- **2019-01-25** Hearing 1/30 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-04** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-02-07** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-28** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 101 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7e4712fc-c2f1-4879-b38b-e98cd81d9930`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).