---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program – Doula Services – Coverage"
description: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program – Doula Services – Coverage"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 669"
citation: "Maryland HB 669 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Belcastro", "Bhandari", "Bridges", "Carr", "Charkoudian", "Cullison", "Hill", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kaiser", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Krebs", "Landis", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "Sample-Hughes", "Wells", "Wilkins"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-31"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/baf87a15-aff7-4172-9e54-996292a32487"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0669?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "8e70992b42af0215c2411efafb76974990eca5727eb19e8e7288c419b5966b3f"
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 669 (2022) — Maryland Medical Assistance Program – Doula Services – Coverage

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Medical Assistance Program – Doula Services – Coverage** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_682_hb0669t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Medical Assistance Program – Doula Services – Coverage** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0669f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Medical Assistance Program – Doula Services – Coverage** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0669t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **117–22** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **33–14** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Belcastro — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Bridges — primary (person)
- Carr — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Hill — 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)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Pendergrass — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
- Wells — primary (person)
- Wilkins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-31** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03** Hearing 2/16 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-03-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-08** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-11** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-30** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 682 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/baf87a15-aff7-4172-9e54-996292a32487`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).