---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Cancellation and Nonrenewal of Coverage - Required Notice"
description: "Health Insurance - Cancellation and Nonrenewal of Coverage - Required Notice"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 936"
citation: "Maryland HB 936 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "D. Jones", "Forbes", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "J. Lewis", "Kaiser", "Kaufman", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "Martinez", "McCaskill", "Pena-Melnyk", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Shetty", "Smith", "Solomon", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "Watson", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2af468f1-2922-47f7-b6e9-5325c00d5227"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0936?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "17ec83178df6822946ffa6f25c62123011967a92736ae6dbf8b5095fed5cb3df"
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 936 (2025) — Health Insurance - Cancellation and Nonrenewal of Coverage - Required Notice

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Health Insurance - Cancellation and Nonrenewal of Coverage - Required Notice** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_744_hb0936t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Insurance - Cancellation and Nonrenewal of Coverage - Required Notice** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0936f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Insurance - Cancellation and Nonrenewal of Coverage - Required Notice** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0936t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Forbes — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- J. Lewis — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Watson — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 744 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2af468f1-2922-47f7-b6e9-5325c00d5227`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).