---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health, Health Insurance, and Health Occupations - Perinatal Behavioral Health Conditions"
description: "Health, Health Insurance, and Health Occupations - Perinatal Behavioral Health Conditions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 891"
citation: "Maryland SB 891 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beidle", "Gile", "Hester", "Hettleman", "King"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-02-06"
last_action: "2026-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0aac2b4d-e976-4e10-9767-8e717706dd3d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0891?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "b7f1fca75b7223b9ad7d8e1e986468c8392f0005f2957e7c7dbbdaa9a3330f0c"
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 891 (2026) — Health, Health Insurance, and Health Occupations - Perinatal Behavioral Health Conditions

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health, Health Insurance, and Health Occupations - Perinatal Behavioral Health Conditions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_636_sb0891t.pdf)
2. **First - Health, Health Insurance, and Health Occupations - Perinatal Mental Health Conditions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0891f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health, Health Insurance, and Health Occupations - Perinatal Behavioral Health Conditions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0891t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **129–8** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beidle — primary (person)
- Gile — primary (person)
- Hester — primary (person)
- Hettleman — primary (person)
- King — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-06** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-12** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-04-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-08** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-09** Referred Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-09** Rereferred to Health
- **2026-04-13** Favorable Report by Health `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-13** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-13** Returned Passed
- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 636 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0aac2b4d-e976-4e10-9767-8e717706dd3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).