---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Health Benefit Exchange – Assessment Applicability and Report on State–Based Individual Market Health Insurance Subsidies"
description: "Maryland Health Benefit Exchange – Assessment Applicability and Report on State–Based Individual Market Health Insurance Subsidies"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 196"
citation: "Maryland HB 196 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pena-Melnyk"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-16"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4ec1862-1cff-4570-a05d-3bad19826a32"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0196?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "159f43e75789ee30a90313ede239ee5120bfca1383f88ac5539282d4147a601a"
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 196 (2020) — Maryland Health Benefit Exchange – Assessment Applicability and Report on State–Based Individual Market Health Insurance Subsidies

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Health Benefit Exchange – Assessment Applicability and Report on State–Based Individual Market Health Insurance Subsidies** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_105_hb0196t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Health Benefit Exchange - Establishment of a State-Based Health Insurance Subsidies Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0196f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Health Benefit Exchange – Assessment Applicability and Report on State–Based Individual Market Health Insurance Subsidies** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0196t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **36–9** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-16** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-06** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-13** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-14** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-15** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-15** Second Reading Passed
- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-16** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 105 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f4ec1862-1cff-4570-a05d-3bad19826a32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).