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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Health Insurance – Coverage for Mental Health Benefits and Substance Use Disorder Benefits – Treatment Criteria"
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description: "Health Insurance – Coverage for Mental Health Benefits and Substance Use Disorder Benefits – Treatment Criteria"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
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legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
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session: "2019"
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identifier: "HB 599"
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citation: "Maryland HB 599 (2019)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Committees and Commissions", "Health Insurance", "Insurance", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Patients", "Reports"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Kelly and Hill"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 13
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2019-02-06"
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last_action: "2019-04-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e579054f-907c-4cdc-ab26-83a17c0c976e"
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source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB599&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
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source_hash: "d946ad8c35d6b841cf698bd8d96c503edaff96ed2ba184e1a72736a72fd62e67"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
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---
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# Maryland HB 599 (2019) — Health Insurance – Coverage for Mental Health Benefits and Substance Use Disorder Benefits – Treatment Criteria
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0599f.pdf)
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## Votes
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- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
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- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Kelly and Hill — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-02-06** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
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- **2019-02-13** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
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- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {576284/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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- **2019-03-15** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
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- **2019-03-18** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2019-03-25** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-03-27** Second Reading Passed
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- **2019-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
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- **2019-03-29** Returned Passed
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- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 358 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e579054f-907c-4cdc-ab26-83a17c0c976e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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