---
type: "Bill"
title: "Long-Term Care Insurance - Premium Rates"
description: "Long-Term Care Insurance - Premium Rates"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 493"
citation: "Maryland HB 493 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Assessments", "Committees and Commissions", "Contracts", "Disclosure", "Discrimination", "Electronic Communication", "Hearings", "Insurance Administration", "Insurance", "Licenses", "Long-Term Care", "Notices", "Prices"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kramer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-27"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b55a481-2655-40cd-a533-b54d451769c0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB493&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "51b2f5dca514248d4f6cbaee8129b5834e702402da6d5913fae3e09d4cab5cc6"
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 493 (2017) — Long-Term Care Insurance - Premium Rates

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0493f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **135–1** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Kramer — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Aumann — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Carey — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
- Frush — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-27** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {486886/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (135-1) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Reassigned to Finance
- **2017-03-24** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 672 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4b55a481-2655-40cd-a533-b54d451769c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).