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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Life and Health Insurance Policies and Annuity and Health Maintenance Organization Contracts - Discretionary Clauses - Prohibition"
+description: "Life and Health Insurance Policies and Annuity and Health Maintenance Organization Contracts - Discretionary Clauses - Prohibition"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1069"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1069 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kaufman", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "Ross", "S. Johnson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-05"
+last_action: "2025-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74efee15-2747-43a5-958c-74a13c5ae061"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1069?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "0c7061ea96edbef9f976ac919b4c008dcd69003fea64fc0563b7ba94ca31aa16"
+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 1069 (2025) — Life and Health Insurance Policies and Annuity and Health Maintenance Organization Contracts - Discretionary Clauses - Prohibition
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Life and Health Insurance Policies and Annuity and Health Maintenance Organization Contracts - Discretionary Clauses - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_396_hb1069t.pdf)
+2. **First - Life and Health Insurance Policies and Annuity Contracts - Discretionary Clauses - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1069f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Life and Health Insurance Policies and Annuity and Health Maintenance Organization Contracts - Discretionary Clauses - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1069t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alston — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Chisholm — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Hutchinson — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Kipke — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- M. Morgan — primary (person)
+- Martinez — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Reilly — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- Ross — primary (person)
+- S. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Szeliga — primary (person)
+- Taveras — primary (person)
+- White Holland — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+- Woorman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-05** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-12** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-02-17** Hearing canceled
+- **2025-02-17** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-02-26** Hearing canceled
+- **2025-02-26** Hearing 2/28 at 12:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-12** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-26** Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 396 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74efee15-2747-43a5-958c-74a13c5ae061`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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