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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 and Pharmacy Benefits Managers - Cost Pricing and Reimbursement"
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description: "Health Insurance and Pharmacy Benefits Managers - Cost Pricing and Reimbursement"
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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 754"
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citation: "Maryland HB 754 (2019)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Appeals", "Claims", "Consumer Protection", "Contracts", "Drugs", "Emergency Bills", "Equipment", "Fees", "Health Care Commission", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Health Planning and Cost Review", "Investigations and Inquiries", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Pharmacy Benefits Managers", "Pharmacists and Pharmacies", "Prices", "Public Information", "Records", "Reimbursement Rates", "Rules and Regulations"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Kipke"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 14
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2019-02-08"
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last_action: "2019-05-13"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/018015a9-ec1d-4cc3-9291-f53fca03db8b"
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source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB754&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
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source_hash: "d416321cb97e46b965849ed4984ed2ab8c4f7f18108942f08396ca30b9c1587b"
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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 754 (2019) — Health Insurance and Pharmacy Benefits Managers - Cost Pricing and Reimbursement
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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/hb0754f.pdf)
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## Votes
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- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
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- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Kipke — primary (person)
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- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
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- Barron — cosponsor (person)
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- Bhandari — cosponsor (person)
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- Carr — cosponsor (person)
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- Charles — cosponsor (person)
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- Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
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- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
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- Hill — cosponsor (person)
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- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
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- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
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- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
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- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
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- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
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- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
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- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
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- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
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- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
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- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
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- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
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- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
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- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-02-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
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- **2019-02-13** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
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- **2019-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {276784/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
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- **2019-03-18** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2019-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
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- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed
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- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
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- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
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- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 400 `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/018015a9-ec1d-4cc3-9291-f53fca03db8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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