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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: "HB 697"
citation: "Maryland HB 697 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Baltimore City", "Baltimore County", "Consumer Protection", "Counties", "Courts", "Diseases", "District of Columbia", "Drugs", "Emergency Medical Services", "Health", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Hospices", "Hospitals", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Reports", "Sunset"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pendergrass"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-07"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/748facc7-196a-4b23-879f-f01e8d8f2753"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB697&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "0f64843f4a86a9b579236df45fbce6e1504abe8fc61e8275767b8a34178191f5"
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 697 (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/hb/hb0697f.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1316** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **452** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Pendergrass — primary (person)
- Acevero — cosponsor (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
- Barve — cosponsor (person)
- Boyce — cosponsor (person)
- Branch — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Busch — cosponsor (person)
- C. Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Cain — cosponsor (person)
- Cardin — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Charkoudian — cosponsor (person)
- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
- Crutchfield — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- D.M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Feldmark — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
- Guyton — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Haynes — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
- Love — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Palakovich Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- R. Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Shetty — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Solomon — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)
- Terrasa — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
- W. Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-07** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {716486/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-15** Third Reading Passed (131-6) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-28** Third Reading Passed (45-2) `passage`
- **2019-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 418 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/748facc7-196a-4b23-879f-f01e8d8f2753`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).