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type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance Coverage for Male Sterilization HighDeductible Health Plans"
description: "Health Insurance Coverage for Male Sterilization HighDeductible Health Plans"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 135"
citation: "Maryland HB 135 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Birth Control", "Contracts", "Emergency Bills", "Gender", "Health", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Insurance Administration", "Legislative Services", "Department of", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Notices", "Prices", "Sunset"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-15"
last_action: "2018-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8412b0a7-7277-463a-91eb-7895072804e1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB135&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "1aadb90887db473f8a863db0b980ac243e58e98d039e976d12481f6bdaef93af"
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 135 (2018) — Health Insurance Coverage for Male Sterilization HighDeductible Health Plans
## 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/hb0135f.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1370** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **470** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Hill — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-15** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-01-26** Hearing canceled
- **2018-01-26** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {646180/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-13** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 64 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8412b0a7-7277-463a-91eb-7895072804e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).