---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Family Planning Services"
description: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Family Planning Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 994"
citation: "Maryland HB 994 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Administrative Agencies", "Birth Control", "Committees and Commissions", "Drugs", "Health", "Health Benefit Exchange", "Health", "Department of", "Medical Assistance", "Reports", "Time", "Youth"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barron"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-07"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ffbe3bf6-b394-48d5-92c7-29994b44d68a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB994&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "d296d8f28f2c5512a538c259abfc763362918d6166c3a869ffa39e81ee72163f"
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 994 (2018) — Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Family Planning Services

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0994f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barron — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-07** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-14** Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-16** Hearing canceled
- **2018-02-16** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {516988/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-03** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 464 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ffbe3bf6-b394-48d5-92c7-29994b44d68a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).