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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health Insurance - Prescription Insulin Drugs - Limits on Copayment and Coinsurance (Insulin Cost Reduction Act)"
+description: "Health Insurance - Prescription Insulin Drugs - Limits on Copayment and Coinsurance (Insulin Cost Reduction Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 1397"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1397 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["B. Barnes", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Carey", "Carr", "Charles", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Henson", "Hill", "Howell", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kaiser", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Landis", "Lehman", "Morgan", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Reznik", "Rosenberg", "Saab", "Sample-Hughes", "Szeliga", "Valderrama", "Valentino-Smith"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-02-17"
+last_action: "2022-05-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51ee8ac3-c05f-4647-bff5-425b339347a8"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1397?ys=2022RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "5aff2044a224fb8c761518816584dd75c42d73d430ee53cff94b2e2081afb82f"
+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 1397 (2022) — Health Insurance - Prescription Insulin Drugs - Limits on Copayment and Coinsurance (Insulin Cost Reduction Act)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Health Insurance - Prescription Insulin Drugs - Limits on Copayment and Coinsurance (Insulin Cost Reduction Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_405_hb1397t.pdf)
+2. **First - Health Insurance - Prescription Insulin Drugs - Limits on Copayment and Coinsurance (Insulin Cost Reduction Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb1397f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Health Insurance - Prescription Insulin Drugs - Limits on Copayment and Coinsurance (Insulin Cost Reduction Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb1397t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **130–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- B. Barnes — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Carey — primary (person)
+- Carr — primary (person)
+- Charles — primary (person)
+- Chisholm — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Henson — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Howell — primary (person)
+- Johnson — primary (person)
+- K. Young — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kelly — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Kipke — primary (person)
+- Landis — primary (person)
+- Lehman — primary (person)
+- Morgan — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Pendergrass — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Reilly — primary (person)
+- Reznik — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- Saab — primary (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
+- Szeliga — primary (person)
+- Valderrama — primary (person)
+- Valentino-Smith — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-02-17** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-03** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
+- **2022-03-03** Hearing 3/15 at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2022-03-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2022-03-21** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-04** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-04-05** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-04-05** Second Reading Passed
+- **2022-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2022-04-07** Returned Passed
+- **2022-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 405 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/51ee8ac3-c05f-4647-bff5-425b339347a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+