---
type: "Bill"
title: "Office of the Attorney General - Investigative Authority - Health Care Fraud"
description: "Office of the Attorney General - Investigative Authority - Health Care Fraud"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1002"
citation: "Maryland HB 1002 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Boyce", "Cullison", "Harris", "Hill", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lehman", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Office of the Attorney General", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-05"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79bfbecc-f3f9-4265-8c28-fa5c6bf4c424"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1002?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "111af836cc434258dfd3529a432e11fb780c9334e60961bb4bf9afa250cd6711"
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 1002 (2024) — Office of the Attorney General - Investigative Authority - Health Care Fraud

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Office of the Attorney General - Investigative Authority - Health Care Fraud** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_140_hb1002t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Department of Health - Office of the Attorney General - Investigative Authority** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1002f.pdf)
3. **Third - Office of the Attorney General - Investigative Authority - Health Care Fraud** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1002t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee — primary (organization)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Harris — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Office of the Attorney General — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-05** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-07** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-15** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-25** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-26** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-26** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-03-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-28** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 140 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79bfbecc-f3f9-4265-8c28-fa5c6bf4c424`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).