---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Preventive Services - High Deductible Health Plans and Enforcement Authority"
description: "Health Insurance - Preventive Services - High Deductible Health Plans and Enforcement Authority"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 974"
citation: "Maryland HB 974 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "D. Jones", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Kaiser", "Kaufman", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "Rosenberg", "Ross", "S. Johnson", "Shetty", "Solomon", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be588ba6-b6db-4ecc-9bfa-e972940934c6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0974?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "6ef27d3bac8ad92be743977610cb51903145a02760398bd745768b6bb7f9c125"
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 974 (2025) — Health Insurance - Preventive Services - High Deductible Health Plans and Enforcement Authority

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health Insurance - Preventive Services - High Deductible Health Plans and Enforcement Authority** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_745_hb0974e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Health Insurance - Preventive Services - High Deductible Health Plans and Enforcement Authority** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0974e.pdf)
3. **First - Health Insurance - Preventive Services - Enforcement Authority** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0974f.pdf)
4. **Third - Health Insurance - Preventive Services - Enforcement Authority** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0974t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **100–37** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **37–5** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **101–38** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Ross — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Solomon — 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.

- **2025-01-31** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 745 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/be588ba6-b6db-4ecc-9bfa-e972940934c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).