---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Insurance Commissioner - Specialty Mental Health Services and Payment of Claims - Enforcement"
description: "Maryland Insurance Commissioner - Specialty Mental Health Services and Payment of Claims - Enforcement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 919"
citation: "Maryland HB 919 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-02"
last_action: "2021-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40b885a9-e9a5-4372-bbbf-41080cf85a21"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0919?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e8ababbc9df05f56861a61f8a4d37075e661d2647df8a10bb78fdd7a871684bd"
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 919 (2021) — Maryland Insurance Commissioner - Specialty Mental Health Services and Payment of Claims - Enforcement

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Insurance Commissioner - Specialty Mental Health Services and Payment of Claims - Enforcement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_151_hb0919t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Insurance Commissioner – Specialty Mental Health Services and Payment of Claims – Enforcement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0919f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Insurance Commissioner - Specialty Mental Health Services and Payment of Claims - Enforcement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0919t.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Bagnall — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-02** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02** Hearing 2/25 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-03-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-19** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-22** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-26** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-26** Second Reading Passed
- **2021-03-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-30** Returned Passed
- **2021-05-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 151 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/40b885a9-e9a5-4372-bbbf-41080cf85a21`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).