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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Medical Professional Liability Insurance Policies - Mandated Deductible Levels - Limitation"
+description: "Medical Professional Liability Insurance Policies - Mandated Deductible Levels - Limitation"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 162"
+citation: "Maryland HB 162 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Health", "Health Insurance", "Health Occupations", "Insurance", "Liability", "Medical Malpractice", "Prices"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-23"
+last_action: "2019-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47434403-1b13-471b-85b7-fe7522603969"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB162&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "2b821622bdb7003d2c35234667b2fa8686b2f51176499fb9e9b69db5618ef0a5"
+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 162 (2019) — Medical Professional Liability Insurance Policies - Mandated Deductible Levels - Limitation
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0162f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chair — primary (person)
+- Economic Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Maryland Insurance Administration) — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-23** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-23** Hearing 1/31 at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2019-02-14** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-14** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-14** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-02-19** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
+- **2019-02-20** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-12** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-25** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-27** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-29** Returned Passed
+- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 113 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47434403-1b13-471b-85b7-fe7522603969`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+