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type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Health Insurance - Required Coverage for Biomarker Testing"
description: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Health Insurance - Required Coverage for Biomarker Testing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1217"
citation: "Maryland HB 1217 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Sample-Hughes", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "Toles", "White", "Wilkins", "Woods"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-10"
last_action: "2023-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ccd4a3d-79a1-4858-8016-f1e796804a35"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1217?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "84cfe5cbaf92fd69201fe4d22f0e65aa693d4c375ecb0b9779b1eef088c84c4c"
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 1217 (2023) — Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Health Insurance - Required Coverage for Biomarker Testing
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Health Insurance - Required Coverage for Biomarker Testing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_323_hb1217e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Health Insurance - Required Coverage for Biomarker Testing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb1217e.pdf)
3. **First - Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Health Insurance - Required Coverage for Biomarker Testing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb1217f.pdf)
4. **Third - Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Health Insurance - Required Coverage for Biomarker Testing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb1217t.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Toles — primary (person)
- White — primary (person)
- Wilkins — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-10** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-13** Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-30** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-30** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-07** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2023-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2023-05-03** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 323 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ccd4a3d-79a1-4858-8016-f1e796804a35`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).