---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Health Benefit Exchange – Assessment Applicability and State–Based Individual Market Health Insurance Subsidies"
description: "Maryland Health Benefit Exchange – Assessment Applicability and State–Based Individual Market Health Insurance Subsidies"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 124"
citation: "Maryland SB 124 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine", "Beidle", "Benson", "Feldman", "Hayes", "Hershey", "Jennings", "Kelley", "Klausmeier", "Kramer", "Reilly"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-09"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0ae60ee-dfb7-41f0-bfa0-ecbd7c8a4532"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0124?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "cecb3e2aa75c7b06b445dd95bc11a12f9823175c41d98da6092363d1c0fb86e6"
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 124 (2020) — Maryland Health Benefit Exchange – Assessment Applicability and 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 State–Based Individual Market Health Insurance Subsidies** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_104_sb0124e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Maryland Health Benefit Exchange – Assessment Applicability and State–Based Individual Market Health Insurance Subsidies** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0124e.pdf)
3. **First - Maryland Health Benefit Exchange - Establishment of a State-Based Health Insurance Subsidies Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0124f.pdf)
4. **Third - Maryland Health Benefit Exchange – Assessment Applicability and State–Based Health Insurance Subsidies Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0124t.pdf)

## Votes

- On third reading — **40–6** (pass) · upper
- ON THIRD READING (Rules Suspended) (Amend) — **99–33** (pass) · lower
- Motion to suspend rules and allow 2 Rdgs on 1 Day — **133–1** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **43–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Augustine — primary (person)
- Beidle — primary (person)
- Benson — primary (person)
- Feldman — primary (person)
- Hayes — primary (person)
- Hershey — primary (person)
- Jennings — primary (person)
- Kelley — primary (person)
- Klausmeier — primary (person)
- Kramer — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-09** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-13** Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-03** Motion Laid Over (Senator Ready) Adopted
- **2020-03-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-06** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-15** Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day (Delegate Cullison) Adopted
- **2020-03-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-16** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-16** Passed Enrolled
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 104 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f0ae60ee-dfb7-41f0-bfa0-ecbd7c8a4532`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).