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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cancer Screening - Health Insurance and Assessment of Outreach, Education, and Health Disparities"
description: "Cancer Screening - Health Insurance and Assessment of Outreach, Education, and Health Disparities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 965"
citation: "Maryland SB 965 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Benson", "Carter", "Lewis Young"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-27"
last_action: "2023-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d9aabd6-9e16-459a-9312-617400001d9d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0965?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "cb11afde637fe72cdcbfac5b6dd85d029766345790900c5c57bd14f70228f49e"
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 965 (2023) — Cancer Screening - Health Insurance and Assessment of Outreach, Education, and Health Disparities
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Cancer Screening - Health Insurance and Assessment of Outreach, Education, and Health Disparities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_353_sb0965t.pdf)
2. **First - Breast and Lung Cancer - Establishment of Screening Awareness Program and Insurance Coverage and Cost Sharing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0965f.pdf)
3. **Third - Cancer Screening - Health Insurance and Assessment of Outreach, Education, and Health Disparities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0965t.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Benson — primary (person)
- Carter — primary (person)
- Lewis Young — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-27** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-14** Rereferred to Finance
- **2023-03-16** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-23** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-23** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-23** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-28** Referred Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
- **2023-04-06** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-06** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2023-05-03** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 353 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d9aabd6-9e16-459a-9312-617400001d9d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).