republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2025/hb-970.md

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Bill	Health Insurance - Insulin - Prohibition on Step Therapy or Fail-First Protocols	Health Insurance - Insulin - Prohibition on Step Therapy or Fail-First Protocols	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2025	HB 970	Maryland HB 970 (2025)	bill		enacted	Alston Bagnall Bhandari Chisholm Cullison Davis Fisher Ghrist Guzzone Harris Harrison Hill Hutchinson J. Long Kaiser Kaufman Kerr Kipke Lopez M. Morgan Martinez McCaskill Patterson Pena-Melnyk Reilly Roberts Rosenberg Ross S. Johnson Schmidt Simmons Szeliga Taveras Taylor Terrasa White Holland Wilkins Woods Woorman	4	22	3	2025-01-31	2025-05-20	openstates	ocd-bill/7d55d7d9-e523-44d4-ac11-10f85c03af0e	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0970?ys=2025RS&search=True	b3caad0b7ec4e36b152dbe2dd670bac55b00daa58d35285edad185f6f5b3bb6c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 970 (2025) — Health Insurance - Insulin - Prohibition on Step Therapy or Fail-First Protocols

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Health Insurance - Insulin - Prohibition on Step Therapy or Fail-First Protocols (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled - Health Insurance - Insulin - Prohibition on Step Therapy or Fail-First Protocols (committee substitute) — source
3. First - Health Insurance - Insulin - Prohibition on Step Therapy or Fail-First Protocols (committee substitute) — source
4. Third - Health Insurance - Insulin - Prohibition on Step Therapy or Fail-First Protocols (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 137–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading (Amend) — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — 134–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alston — primary (person)
• Bagnall — primary (person)
• Bhandari — primary (person)
• Chisholm — primary (person)
• Cullison — primary (person)
• Davis — primary (person)
• Fisher — primary (person)
• Ghrist — primary (person)
• Guzzone — primary (person)
• Harris — primary (person)
• Harrison — primary (person)
• Hill — primary (person)
• Hutchinson — primary (person)
• J. Long — primary (person)
• Kaiser — primary (person)
• Kaufman — primary (person)
• Kerr — primary (person)
• Kipke — primary (person)
• Lopez — primary (person)
• M. Morgan — primary (person)
• Martinez — primary (person)
• McCaskill — primary (person)
• Patterson — primary (person)
• Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
• Reilly — primary (person)
• Roberts — primary (person)
• Rosenberg — primary (person)
• Ross — primary (person)
• S. Johnson — primary (person)
• Schmidt — primary (person)
• Simmons — primary (person)
• Szeliga — primary (person)
• Taveras — primary (person)
• Taylor — primary (person)
• Terrasa — primary (person)
• White Holland — primary (person)
• Wilkins — primary (person)
• Woods — primary (person)
• Woorman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-31 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2025-02-03 Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2025-02-26 Hearing canceled
• 2025-02-26 Hearing 2/27 at 2:00 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
• 2025-03-31 Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-01 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-01 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2025-04-02 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-04-03 House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
• 2025-04-03 House Requests Senate Recede
• 2025-04-03 House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
• 2025-04-03 House Requests Senate Recede
• 2025-04-03 Senate Refuses Recede
• 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 688 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7d55d7d9-e523-44d4-ac11-10f85c03af0e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).