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type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Coverage for Specialty Drugs"
description: "Health Insurance - Coverage for Specialty Drugs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 975"
citation: "Maryland SB 975 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lam"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62608f88-df2f-4093-ab94-3511bc54ede2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0975?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e899c403cfce5d92d025b49dff8ba9e12e3f8e7c5b0bfbb8c6e59a7b1c41a631"
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 SB 975 (2025) — Health Insurance - Coverage for Specialty Drugs
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Health Insurance - Coverage for Specialty Drugs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_728_sb0975t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Insurance - Coverage for Specialty Drugs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0975f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Insurance - Coverage for Specialty Drugs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0975t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **470** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **1342** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Lam — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Referred Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 728 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/62608f88-df2f-4093-ab94-3511bc54ede2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).