---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Provider Panels - Graduate Providers"
description: "Health Insurance - Provider Panels - Graduate Providers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 829"
citation: "Maryland HB 829 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Counselors", "Health Occupations", "Licenses", "Social Workers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ghrist"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09224156-abda-4086-9631-cbe5454689d7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB829&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "7150f154962e2f7db9e01b6d0a7ebdbea7bb1025080eb2715a346f50fd8ea462"
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 829 (2019) — Health Insurance - Provider Panels - Graduate Providers

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0829f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ghrist — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bhandari — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Charles — cosponsor (person)
- Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {906688/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-14** Floor Amendment {323429/1 (Delegate Cullison) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-16** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 551 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/09224156-abda-4086-9631-cbe5454689d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).