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type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Qualified Resident Enrollment Program (Access to Care Act)"
description: "Health Insurance - Qualified Resident Enrollment Program (Access to Care Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 728"
citation: "Maryland HB 728 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Boafo", "Boyce", "Charkoudian", "Cullison", "Embry", "Fair", "Fennell", "Fraser-Hidalgo", "Guzzone", "Harris", "Healey", "Hill", "J. Long", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lehman", "Lopez", "Love", "Martinez", "McCaskill", "Mireku-North", "Palakovich Carr", "Patterson", "Pena-Melnyk", "Queen", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "Ruth", "S. Johnson", "Simpson", "Solomon", "Spiegel", "Stein", "Taveras", "Terrasa", "Turner", "White Holland", "Williams", "Ziegler"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-29"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab790ca0-ee0a-4e5b-bb5e-00956b68ea95"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0728?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "022c7ffb64e4dbff15544f1fdf9760042f54b88efa906b79b54b30b4b113e57f"
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 728 (2024) — Health Insurance - Qualified Resident Enrollment Program (Access to Care Act)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Health Insurance - Qualified Resident Enrollment Program (Access to Care Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_842_hb0728t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Insurance - Qualified Resident Enrollment Program (Access to Care Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0728f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Insurance - Qualified Resident Enrollment Program (Access to Care Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0728t.pdf)
## Votes
- FLA Del. Pippy /483422/1 — **33102** (fail) · lower
- On Third Reading — **3413** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **10134** (pass) · lower
- FLA Del. Tomlinson /143122/1 — **36100** (fail) · lower
## Sponsors
- Acevero — primary (person)
- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Boafo — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Embry — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Fennell — primary (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Harris — primary (person)
- Healey — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- J. Long — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Love — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- Mireku-North — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Queen — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Simpson — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)
- Spiegel — primary (person)
- Stein — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- Turner — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)
- Ziegler — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-29** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-20** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-20** Motion Special Order until 2/21 (Delegate Pippy) Adopted
- **2024-02-21** Floor Amendment {
- **2024-02-21** Floor Amendment {
- **2024-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-02-23** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-02-26** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 842 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ab790ca0-ee0a-4e5b-bb5e-00956b68ea95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).