republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2020/hb-959.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Health Insurance - Consumer Protections	Health Insurance - Consumer Protections	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2020	HB 959	Maryland HB 959 (2020)	bill		enacted	Bagnall Barron Bhandari Carr Charles Cullison Hill Johnson K. Young Kelly Kerr Pena-Melnyk Pendergrass R. Lewis Rosenberg	3	13	2	2020-02-05	2020-05-08	openstates	ocd-bill/0d7ac21e-68d4-4eb1-821e-759fff96d619	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0959?ys=2020RS&search=True	0982b41089adaca7cb15a1b03698a8ebc11165def246eebbc17fc624349f79e8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 959 (2020) — Health Insurance - Consumer Protections

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Health Insurance - Consumer Protections (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Health Insurance - Consumer Protections (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Health Insurance - Consumer Protections (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading (Emerg) — 110–28 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading (Emerg) — 31–14 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bagnall — primary (person)
• Barron — primary (person)
• Bhandari — primary (person)
• Carr — primary (person)
• Charles — primary (person)
• Cullison — primary (person)
• Hill — primary (person)
• Johnson — primary (person)
• K. Young — primary (person)
• Kelly — primary (person)
• Kerr — primary (person)
• Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
• Pendergrass — primary (person)
• R. Lewis — primary (person)
• Rosenberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-05 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2020-02-06 Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2020-03-05 Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-09 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-09 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2020-03-10 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-11 Referred Finance referral-committee
• 2020-03-15 Favorable Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-15 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-15 Second Reading Passed
• 2020-03-16 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-16 Returned Passed
• 2020-05-08 Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 620 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0d7ac21e-68d4-4eb1-821e-759fff96d619. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).