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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Consumer Protections"
description: "Health Insurance - Consumer Protections"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 959"
citation: "Maryland HB 959 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Barron", "Bhandari", "Carr", "Charles", "Cullison", "Hill", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-05"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d7ac21e-68d4-4eb1-821e-759fff96d619"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0959?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "0982b41089adaca7cb15a1b03698a8ebc11165def246eebbc17fc624349f79e8"
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 959 (2020) — Health Insurance - Consumer Protections
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Health Insurance - Consumer Protections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_620_hb0959t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Insurance - Consumer Protections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0959f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Insurance - Consumer Protections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0959t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **11028** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **3114** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Barron — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Carr — primary (person)
- Charles — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Johnson — primary (person)
- K. Young — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Pendergrass — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-02-05** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-06** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-09** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-11** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-15** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-15** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-15** Second Reading Passed
- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-16** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 620 `became-law`
## Source
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).