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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health Insurance – Consumer Protections and Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission"
+description: "Health Insurance – Consumer Protections and Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 697"
+citation: "Maryland HB 697 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Baltimore City", "Baltimore County", "Consumer Protection", "Counties", "Courts", "Diseases", "District of Columbia", "Drugs", "Emergency Medical Services", "Health", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Hospices", "Hospitals", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Reports", "Sunset"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Pendergrass"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-07"
+last_action: "2019-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/748facc7-196a-4b23-879f-f01e8d8f2753"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB697&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "0f64843f4a86a9b579236df45fbce6e1504abe8fc61e8275767b8a34178191f5"
+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 697 (2019) — Health Insurance – Consumer Protections and Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission
+
+## 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/hb0697f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **131–6** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Pendergrass — primary (person)
+- Acevero — cosponsor (person)
+- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
+- Barve — cosponsor (person)
+- Boyce — cosponsor (person)
+- Branch — cosponsor (person)
+- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
+- Busch — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Watson — cosponsor (person)
+- Cain — cosponsor (person)
+- Cardin — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Chang — cosponsor (person)
+- Charkoudian — cosponsor (person)
+- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Crutchfield — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- D.M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
+- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldmark — cosponsor (person)
+- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
+- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
+- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
+- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
+- Guyton — cosponsor (person)
+- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Haynes — cosponsor (person)
+- Healey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
+- Korman — cosponsor (person)
+- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
+- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
+- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
+- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
+- Love — cosponsor (person)
+- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
+- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
+- Moon — cosponsor (person)
+- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Queen — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Watson — cosponsor (person)
+- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Shetty — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Solomon — cosponsor (person)
+- Stein — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart — cosponsor (person)
+- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)
+- Terrasa — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- W. Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-07** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-11** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {716486/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-15** Third Reading Passed (131-6) `passage`
+- **2019-03-18** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **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 (45-2) `passage`
+- **2019-03-29** Returned Passed
+- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 418 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/748facc7-196a-4b23-879f-f01e8d8f2753`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+