republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2019/hb-814.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Easy Enrollment Health Insurance Program"
description: "Maryland Easy Enrollment Health Insurance Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 814"
citation: "Maryland HB 814 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Taxes - Income", "Agents and Brokers", "Communications", "Comptroller", "Data", "Forms", "Health", "Health Insurance", "Income Tax", "Medical Assistance", "Prices", "Reports", "Tax Credits", "Tax Returns"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pena-Melnyk"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c79b1cf-f983-47a9-a1db-af9aee6efcd3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB814&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "58baf468e49a29a282164c9c1b95a2f23197bd48927441df0dc202fa28300d70"
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 814 (2019) — Maryland Easy Enrollment Health Insurance Program

## 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/hb0814f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **119–12** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **123–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Acevero — cosponsor (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
- Barve — cosponsor (person)
- Boyce — cosponsor (person)
- Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Cain — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Charkoudian — cosponsor (person)
- Charles — cosponsor (person)
- Conaway — cosponsor (person)
- Crutchfield — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- D.M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Feldmark — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Haynes — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Ivey — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- Lehman — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Love — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Palakovich Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Proctor — cosponsor (person)
- Qi — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- R. Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Solomon — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)
- Terrasa — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
- W. Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {716387/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-16** Third Reading Passed (119-12) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** First Reading Finance and Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Favorable with Amendments {877971/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (123-15) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 423 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c79b1cf-f983-47a9-a1db-af9aee6efcd3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).