---
type: "Bill"
title: "President Jimmy Carter Cancer Treatment Access Act"
description: "President Jimmy Carter Cancer Treatment Access Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 740"
citation: "Maryland HB 740 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Chemical Tests", "Contracts", "Diseases", "Drugs", "Federal Government", "Hazardous and Toxic Substances", "Health", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Insurance", "Nonprofit Organizations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Angel"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-02"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0d70839-7d7a-4e72-9295-e8487f9d18fa"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB740&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "52f379c491b6dad8abe08518a6126944ea6fe4eb33429c956da0821a5d02bc9e"
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 740 (2017) — President Jimmy Carter Cancer Treatment Access Act

## 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/hb0740f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Angel — primary (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-02** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 2/23 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 {856783/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 678 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c0d70839-7d7a-4e72-9295-e8487f9d18fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).