---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospitals - Financial Assistance - Medical Bill Reimbursement"
description: "Hospitals - Financial Assistance - Medical Bill Reimbursement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 694"
citation: "Maryland HB 694 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Belcastro", "Bhandari", "Carr", "Charkoudian", "Cullison", "Hill", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kaiser", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Landis", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "Sample-Hughes"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-01-31"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75d801c1-caf7-41eb-8d8d-4f60cecb70dd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0694?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "39600281918e180859e7d119bb9d3aa7a668232da9ecd4fca5f6fa2f52c17837"
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 694 (2022) — Hospitals - Financial Assistance - Medical Bill Reimbursement

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Hospitals - Financial Assistance - Medical Bill Reimbursement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_683_hb0694e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Hospitals - Financial Assistance - Medical Bill Reimbursement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0694e.pdf)
3. **First - Hospitals - Financial Assistance - Medical Bill Reimbursement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0694f.pdf)
4. **Third - Hospitals - Financial Assistance - Medical Bill Reimbursement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0694t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **115–2** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **131–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Belcastro — primary (person)
- Bhandari — 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)
- Landis — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Pendergrass — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-31** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-15** Hearing 3/02 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-03-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-19** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-22** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-04-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-08** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-11** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2022-04-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-11** Passed Enrolled
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 683 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/75d801c1-caf7-41eb-8d8d-4f60cecb70dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).