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type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance Consumer Protections and Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission"
description: "Health Insurance Consumer Protections and Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 868"
citation: "Maryland SB 868 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Baltimore City", "Baltimore County", "Consumer Protection", "Counties", "Diseases", "District of Columbia", "Drugs", "Emergency Medical Services", "Genetics", "Health", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Hospices", "Hospitals", "Medical Assistance", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Reports", "Sunset"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Feldman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-06"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80dd0b62-7168-4861-bf74-70661a674b83"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB868&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "eecb5287d9be6b0e55c86d2f38e077447e33c2c3d38f084336d33ffb79e73b34"
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 SB 868 (2019) — Health Insurance Consumer Protections and Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission
## 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/sb/sb0868f.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **12811** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **396** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Feldman — primary (person)
- Augustine — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Elfreth — cosponsor (person)
- Ellis — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-06** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Rereferred to Finance
- **2019-02-22** Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {397172/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (39-6) `passage`
- **2019-03-19** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (128-11) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 417 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80dd0b62-7168-4861-bf74-70661a674b83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).