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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health Insurance - Consumer Protections"
+description: "Health Insurance - Consumer Protections"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 959"
+citation: "Maryland HB 959 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Barron", "Bhandari", "Carr", "Charles", "Cullison", "Hill", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-02-05"
+last_action: "2020-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d7ac21e-68d4-4eb1-821e-759fff96d619"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0959?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "0982b41089adaca7cb15a1b03698a8ebc11165def246eebbc17fc624349f79e8"
+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 959 (2020) — Health Insurance - Consumer Protections
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Health Insurance - Consumer Protections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_620_hb0959t.pdf)
+2. **First - Health Insurance - Consumer Protections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0959f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Health Insurance - Consumer Protections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0959t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **110–28** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **31–14** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Barron — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Carr — primary (person)
+- Charles — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Johnson — primary (person)
+- K. Young — primary (person)
+- Kelly — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Pendergrass — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-05** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-06** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-03-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-09** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2020-03-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-11** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-15** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-15** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-15** Second Reading Passed
+- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-16** Returned Passed
+- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 620 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0d7ac21e-68d4-4eb1-821e-759fff96d619`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+