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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health Insurance - Prior Authorization - Requirements"
+description: "Health Insurance - Prior Authorization - Requirements"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 751"
+citation: "Maryland HB 751 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Consumer Protection", "Diseases", "Drugs", "Emergencies", "Equipment", "Health", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Insurance", "Medical Treatments", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Notices", "Opioids", "Patients", "Pharmacy Benefits Managers", "Pharmacists and Pharmacies", "Physicians", "Records"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-08"
+last_action: "2019-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/35f6cabc-15e0-4801-abd3-99d5823cce11"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB751&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "98f8f09000795abfd39e7a118ec5307ee5a938ad8a9c37f367feab761af90d42"
+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 751 (2019) — Health Insurance - Prior Authorization - Requirements
+
+## 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/hb0751f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hill — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-13** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {296884/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-18** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 549 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/35f6cabc-15e0-4801-abd3-99d5823cce11`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+