---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospitals - Financial Assistance Policies and Bill Collections"
description: "Hospitals - Financial Assistance Policies and Bill Collections"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1420"
citation: "Maryland HB 1420 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barron", "Carr", "Charkoudian", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "Ruth"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-07"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31b5ed25-1740-4e3b-9210-9ad66f68b783"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1420?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "7c006fa218fbc5e52d26aa5fd9a26332242c6cd8a01611d05c622f4af090c7cc"
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 1420 (2020) — Hospitals - Financial Assistance Policies and Bill Collections

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Hospitals - Financial Assistance Policies and Bill Collections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_470_hb1420t.pdf)
2. **First - Hospitals - Financial Assistance Policies and Bill Collections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb1420f.pdf)
3. **Third - Hospitals - Financial Assistance Policies and Bill Collections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb1420t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barron — primary (person)
- Carr — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-07** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-18** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-18** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-18** Second Reading Passed
- **2020-03-18** Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Hershey) Adopted
- **2020-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 470 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31b5ed25-1740-4e3b-9210-9ad66f68b783`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).