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---
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Health Insurance - Consumer Protections"
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description: "Health Insurance - Consumer Protections"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
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legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
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session: "2020"
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identifier: "HB 959"
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citation: "Maryland HB 959 (2020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Barron", "Bhandari", "Carr", "Charles", "Cullison", "Hill", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 13
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2020-02-05"
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last_action: "2020-05-08"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d7ac21e-68d4-4eb1-821e-759fff96d619"
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source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0959?ys=2020RS&search=True"
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source_hash: "0982b41089adaca7cb15a1b03698a8ebc11165def246eebbc17fc624349f79e8"
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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 959 (2020) — Health Insurance - Consumer Protections
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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. **Chapter - Health Insurance - Consumer Protections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_620_hb0959t.pdf)
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2. **First - Health Insurance - Consumer Protections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0959f.pdf)
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3. **Third - Health Insurance - Consumer Protections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0959t.pdf)
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## Votes
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- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **110–28** (pass) · lower
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- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **31–14** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Bagnall — primary (person)
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- Barron — primary (person)
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- Bhandari — primary (person)
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- Carr — primary (person)
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- Charles — primary (person)
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- Cullison — primary (person)
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- Hill — primary (person)
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- Johnson — primary (person)
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- K. Young — primary (person)
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- Kelly — primary (person)
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- Kerr — primary (person)
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- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
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- Pendergrass — primary (person)
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- R. Lewis — primary (person)
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- Rosenberg — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-02-05** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-06** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
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- **2020-03-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-03-09** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-03-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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- **2020-03-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
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- **2020-03-11** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2020-03-15** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-03-15** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-03-15** Second Reading Passed
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- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
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- **2020-03-16** Returned Passed
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- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 620 `became-law`
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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/0d7ac21e-68d4-4eb1-821e-759fff96d619`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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