---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Prescription Drugs - Formulary Changes"
description: "Health Insurance - Prescription Drugs - Formulary Changes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 405"
citation: "Maryland SB 405 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Drugs", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Insurance", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Notices", "Prices", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hayes"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-31"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9267853e-220d-4806-8304-8b5af64f2302"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB405&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "2802b4dcea9f2cd364f8c34fda5f1d89f2ed5e06949d61ae5db718d6142b3d69"
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 SB 405 (2019) — Health Insurance - Prescription Drugs - Formulary Changes

## 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/sb/sb0405f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hayes — primary (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-31** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {567978/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-19** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 504 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9267853e-220d-4806-8304-8b5af64f2302`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).