---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance - Medicare Supplement Policies - Open Enrollment Period Following Birthday"
description: "Insurance - Medicare Supplement Policies - Open Enrollment Period Following Birthday"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 247"
citation: "Maryland HB 247 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Belcastro", "Bhandari", "Carr", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Hill", "Jalisi", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kaiser", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Krebs", "Landis", "McComas", "Moon", "Morgan", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Reznik", "Rosenberg", "Saab", "Sample-Hughes", "Szeliga", "Valentino-Smith"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-13"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57d381e3-cd98-4da7-b4e5-e63296990960"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0247?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "6014446366e13177f557aca81e424a2640d1700b7e3138bceceba6e11d82478c"
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 247 (2022) — Insurance - Medicare Supplement Policies - Open Enrollment Period Following Birthday

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Insurance - Medicare Supplement Policies - Open Enrollment Period Following Birthday** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_680_hb0247t.pdf)
2. **First - Insurance - Medicare Supplement Policy Plans - Open Enrollment Period Following Birthday** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0247f.pdf)
3. **Third - Insurance - Medicare Supplement Policies - Open Enrollment Period Following Birthday** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0247t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **121–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Belcastro — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Carr — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Jalisi — primary (person)
- Johnson — primary (person)
- K. Young — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Krebs — primary (person)
- Landis — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- Moon — primary (person)
- Morgan — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Reznik — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Saab — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Valentino-Smith — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-13** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25** Hearing 2/03 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2022-02-21** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-22** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-22** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-02-24** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-25** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-18** Hearing 3/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-04-04** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-05** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 680 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57d381e3-cd98-4da7-b4e5-e63296990960`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).