---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance – Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Enrollment – Effective Dates"
description: "Health Insurance – Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Enrollment – Effective Dates"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 273"
citation: "Maryland HB 273 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-09-16"
last_action: "2026-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0da75e6-9ea9-4d21-a270-bee0bf0ffdf4"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0273?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "ee7a49704a5cde3b8b13ed79743b0080f671f3ce08372768a42dfe6adf748f11"
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 273 (2026) — Health Insurance – Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Enrollment – Effective Dates

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health Insurance – Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Enrollment – Effective Dates** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_137_hb0273t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Insurance – Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Enrollment – Effective Dates** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0273f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Insurance – Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Enrollment – Effective Dates** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0273t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair, Health Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-09-16** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2026-01-14** First Reading Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-20** Hearing 1/29 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2026-02-09** Favorable Report by Health `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-10** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2026-02-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-02-13** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-30** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-31** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2026-04-14** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 137 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0da75e6-9ea9-4d21-a270-bee0bf0ffdf4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).