---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Required Coverage - Hearing Aids"
description: "Health Insurance - Required Coverage - Hearing Aids"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1355"
citation: "Maryland HB 1355 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hartman", "Miller", "Reilly"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-02-07"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d8499b04-0703-46b4-954d-d3c54b93e7fd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1355?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "1968aab302acd75ccf9139b1ee1aa030b68ee2e12872a17f1edd2b8c048b2d63"
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 1355 (2025) — Health Insurance - Required Coverage - Hearing Aids

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health Insurance - Required Coverage - Hearing Aids** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_742_hb1355t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Insurance - Required Coverage - Hearing Aids** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1355f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Insurance - Required Coverage - Hearing Aids** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1355t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hartman — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-07** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-11** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-11** Hearing 3/11 at 2:45 p.m.
- **2025-03-15** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 742 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d8499b04-0703-46b4-954d-d3c54b93e7fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).