---
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: "SB 661"
citation: "Maryland SB 661 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine", "Beidle", "Benson", "Ellis", "Feldman", "Griffith", "Hayes", "Hershey", "Jennings", "Kelley", "Klausmeier", "Kramer", "Lam", "McCray", "Miller", "Patterson", "Smith", "Sydnor"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-03"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4fb171de-2f2b-41fa-b926-300cb9f46f06"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0661?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e9cfdb60293aafdbfa09c032ff42a9891ca5acb09c2f8271e37a80cf2383643b"
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 661 (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_344_sb0661t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Insurance - Prostate Cancer Screening - Prohibiting Cost-Sharing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0661f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Insurance - Prostate Cancer Screening Services - Prohibiting Cost-Sharing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0661t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Augustine — primary (person)
- Beidle — primary (person)
- Benson — primary (person)
- Ellis — primary (person)
- Feldman — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)
- Hayes — primary (person)
- Hershey — primary (person)
- Jennings — primary (person)
- Kelley — primary (person)
- Klausmeier — primary (person)
- Kramer — primary (person)
- Lam — primary (person)
- McCray — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Sydnor — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-04** Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 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** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-06** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-14** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-14** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 344 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4fb171de-2f2b-41fa-b926-300cb9f46f06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).