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type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Maternal Health Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring"
description: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Maternal Health Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 553"
citation: "Maryland HB 553 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Boafo", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Harrison", "Hill", "Holmes", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lehman", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Taveras", "Terrasa", "Vogel", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5b0aefb-726b-49f3-859a-5eed19f8106e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0553?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "41b7682fb095a399277c045fdeacb8c16e57481529bf5d41b453e90567fafa08"
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 553 (2025) — Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Maternal Health Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Maternal Health Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_714_hb0553t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0553f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Maternal Health Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0553t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1303** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Boafo — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Harrison — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Holmes — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- Vogel — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-22** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-28** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 714 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c5b0aefb-726b-49f3-859a-5eed19f8106e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).