---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Health Benefit Exchange - State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Pilot Program - Sunset Repeal"
description: "Maryland Health Benefit Exchange - State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Pilot Program - Sunset Repeal"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 297"
citation: "Maryland HB 297 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-09"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e45531ad-4bb5-4817-bb82-2db65b47471c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0297?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "07b2bca3c8329cab4fb9af0a47ee801042103f2e7967d1bbc6f9382ab043dfcd"
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 297 (2025) — Maryland Health Benefit Exchange - State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Pilot Program - Sunset Repeal

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Health Benefit Exchange - State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Pilot Program - Sunset Repeal** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_721_hb0297t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Health Benefit Exchange - State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Pilot Program - Sunset Repeal** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0297f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Health Benefit Exchange - State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Pilot Program - Sunset Repeal** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0297t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **98–37** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-09** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-10** Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-21** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 721 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e45531ad-4bb5-4817-bb82-2db65b47471c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).