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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance Coverage for Mental Health Benefits and Substance Use Disorder Benefits Treatment Criteria"
description: "Health Insurance Coverage for Mental Health Benefits and Substance Use Disorder Benefits Treatment Criteria"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 631"
citation: "Maryland SB 631 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Claims", "Disclosure", "Drugs", "Forms", "Health Insurance", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Health Occupations", "Insurance Administration", "Medical Treatments", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Notices", "Opioids", "Patients", "Penalties and Sentences", "Records", "Reimbursement Rates", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Substance Abuse"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/525a25fa-b89e-400b-a7b7-e89d84f8b43c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB631&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "e14f2a57e6e29850cfeac04791f5432d83d453155fb9bf524fcfedc5a265820b"
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 SB 631 (2019) — Health Insurance Coverage for Mental Health Benefits and Substance Use Disorder Benefits Treatment Criteria
## 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/sb/sb0631f.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **470** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **1320** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Augustine — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-04** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-22** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Favorable with Amendments {737971/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-25** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-26** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
- **2019-04-03** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed (132-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 357 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/525a25fa-b89e-400b-a7b7-e89d84f8b43c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).