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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Managed Care Organizations and Health Insurance Carriers - Prior Authorization for HIV Postexposure Prophylaxis - Prohibition"
+description: "Managed Care Organizations and Health Insurance Carriers - Prior Authorization for HIV Postexposure Prophylaxis - Prohibition"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 970"
+citation: "Maryland HB 970 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Belcastro", "Bhandari", "Carr", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Hill", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kaiser", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Krebs", "Landis", "Morgan", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "Saab", "Sample-Hughes", "Szeliga"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-02-10"
+last_action: "2022-05-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ed2613e-829a-4b8a-82ee-34e0542f5cae"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0970?ys=2022RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "37b4bdcbf64d80a4e0cad48dcb404e3b63f50021ebbcb14a149434e2d846589f"
+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 970 (2022) — Managed Care Organizations and Health Insurance Carriers - Prior Authorization for HIV Postexposure Prophylaxis - Prohibition
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Managed Care Organizations and Health Insurance Carriers - Prior Authorization for HIV Postexposure Prophylaxis - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_684_hb0970t.pdf)
+2. **First - Managed Care Organizations and Health Insurance Carriers – Prior Authorization for HIV Postexposure Prophylaxis for Victims of Sexual Offenses – Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0970f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Managed Care Organizations and Health Insurance Carriers - Prior Authorization for HIV Postexposure Prophylaxis - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0970t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Belcastro — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Carr — primary (person)
+- Chisholm — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Johnson — primary (person)
+- K. Young — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kelly — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Kipke — primary (person)
+- Krebs — primary (person)
+- Landis — primary (person)
+- Morgan — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Reilly — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- Saab — primary (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
+- Szeliga — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-02-10** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-11** Hearing 2/17 at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2022-02-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-03-01** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-03-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2022-03-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2022-03-04** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-07** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-04-07** Second Reading Passed
+- **2022-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2022-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 684 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ed2613e-829a-4b8a-82ee-34e0542f5cae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+