---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission - Established"
description: "Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission - Established"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 718"
citation: "Maryland HB 718 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "Rosenberg", "Ross", "S. Johnson", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-27"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/06a6916d-807e-44ee-b639-8d28f5982bf8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0718?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "8c633b55a60bd677bfa26e820f6355f90916f909ccd203ac15066ca73266e280"
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 718 (2025) — Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission - Established

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_696_hb0718e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0718e.pdf)
3. **First - Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0718f.pdf)
4. **Third - Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0718t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **98–38** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **101–37** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **35–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Ross — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-27** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-05** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 696 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/06a6916d-807e-44ee-b639-8d28f5982bf8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).