---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Medicare Supplement Policies - Insurance Producer Commission"
description: "Health Insurance - Medicare Supplement Policies - Insurance Producer Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 956"
citation: "Maryland SB 956 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["West"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cac89ecd-f5ab-4158-a659-de1ca304b439"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0956?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e74b08a805ad9a9d2caeb161a81bfd310e04f45e96105890cfaf55769b13f7a2"
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 956 (2025) — Health Insurance - Medicare Supplement Policies - Insurance Producer Commission

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health Insurance - Medicare Supplement Policies - Insurance Producer Commission** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_740_sb0956t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Insurance - Medicare Supplement Policies - Broker Commission** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0956f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Insurance - Medicare Supplement Policies - Insurance Producer Commission** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0956t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- West — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Motion Laid Over (Senator Augustine) Adopted
- **2025-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-14** 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 740 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cac89ecd-f5ab-4158-a659-de1ca304b439`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).