---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance – Prostate Cancer Screening Services – Prohibiting Cost–Sharing"
description: "Health Insurance – Prostate Cancer Screening Services – Prohibiting Cost–Sharing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 852"
citation: "Maryland HB 852 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Anderson", "Bagnall", "Barron", "Bhandari", "Branch", "Bridges", "Brooks", "C. Jackson", "Carr", "Charles", "Chisholm", "Conaway", "Cullison", "D. Barnes", "D.E. Davis", "Haynes", "Hill", "Holmes", "Ivey", "J. Lewis", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Kipke", "M. Jackson", "Mautz", "Morgan", "Mosby", "Palakovich Carr", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "R. Lewis", "R. Watson", "Reilly", "Rogers", "Rosenberg", "Sample-Hughes", "Solomon", "Szeliga", "Walker", "Washington", "Williams", "Wilson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-02-03"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90d68a01-323f-4fd6-a9ef-3c32b26e425f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0852?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2431e943fd43ff229fbf99a0b8aa99967f2c631cec010b85c858cc721dbc8fef"
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 852 (2020) — Health Insurance – Prostate Cancer Screening Services – Prohibiting Cost–Sharing

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health Insurance – Prostate Cancer Screening Services – Prohibiting Cost–Sharing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_343_hb0852t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Insurance - Prostate Cancer Screening - Prohibiting Cost-Sharing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0852f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Insurance – Prostate Cancer Screening Services – ProhibitingCost–Sharing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0852t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Acevero — primary (person)
- Anderson — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Barron — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Branch — primary (person)
- Bridges — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- C. Jackson — primary (person)
- Carr — primary (person)
- Charles — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Conaway — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- D. Barnes — primary (person)
- D.E. Davis — primary (person)
- Haynes — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Holmes — primary (person)
- Ivey — primary (person)
- J. Lewis — primary (person)
- Johnson — primary (person)
- K. Young — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- M. Jackson — primary (person)
- Mautz — primary (person)
- Morgan — primary (person)
- Mosby — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Pendergrass — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- R. Watson — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Walker — primary (person)
- Washington — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)
- Wilson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-03** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-04** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-09** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-15** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-15** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 343 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/90d68a01-323f-4fd6-a9ef-3c32b26e425f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).