---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vaccinations by Pharmacists and Health Insurance Coverage for Immunizations"
description: "Vaccinations by Pharmacists and Health Insurance Coverage for Immunizations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1315"
citation: "Maryland HB 1315 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Barnes", "Bhandari", "Crutchfield", "Cullison", "Embry", "Fair", "Forbes", "Guzzone", "Harris", "Hill", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Palakovich Carr", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pruski", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "Ross", "Ruff", "S. Johnson", "Schindler", "Smith", "Stewart", "Taveras", "Terrasa", "White Holland", "Williams", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-07"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d08540d-00b5-442c-a6a3-e7524aeaa9ed"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1315?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "0b2c068f509225be16f0810c9ad4709f6c4462fb2f594088079324ca5fe42445"
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 1315 (2025) — Vaccinations by Pharmacists and Health Insurance Coverage for Immunizations

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Vaccinations by Pharmacists and Health Insurance Coverage for Immunizations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_738_hb1315t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Insurance - Coverage for Child Wellness Services - Immunizations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1315f.pdf)
3. **Third - Vaccinations by Pharmacists and Health Insurance Coverage for Immunizations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1315t.pdf)

## Votes

- Floor Amendment Folden /873227/1 — **12–31** (fail) · upper
- On Third Reading — **103–36** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **35–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Barnes — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Embry — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Forbes — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Harris — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Pruski — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Ross — primary (person)
- Ruff — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Schindler — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Stewart — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-07** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-03** Hearing 3/06 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-03** Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-03** Hearing 3/10 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2025-03-08** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-08** Hearing 3/10 at 11:30 a.m.
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Motion Special Order until Next Session (Senator Folden) Adopted
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 738 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d08540d-00b5-442c-a6a3-e7524aeaa9ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).