---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commission to Study Health Insurance Pooling - Establishment"
description: "Commission to Study Health Insurance Pooling - Establishment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 547"
citation: "Maryland SB 547 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Washington", "Beidle", "C. Jackson", "Ellis", "Gile", "Hayes", "Hershey", "James", "Kramer", "Lam", "Mautz", "Ready"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6178796d-7f29-4ce4-9942-d99598e90c6e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0547?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "0b735be6dc92d11e14379c9d126deb712c2c93f896640737a78c6ee2f9372fff"
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 547 (2025) — Commission to Study Health Insurance Pooling - Establishment

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Commission to Study Health Insurance Pooling - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_741_sb0547t.pdf)
2. **First - Commission to Study Health Insurance Pooling - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0547f.pdf)
3. **Third - Commission to Study Health Insurance Pooling - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0547t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–1** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- A. Washington — primary (person)
- Beidle — primary (person)
- C. Jackson — primary (person)
- Ellis — primary (person)
- Gile — primary (person)
- Hayes — primary (person)
- Hershey — primary (person)
- James — primary (person)
- Kramer — primary (person)
- Lam — primary (person)
- Mautz — primary (person)
- Ready — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-28** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-15** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-01** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 741 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6178796d-7f29-4ce4-9942-d99598e90c6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).