Maryland House Bill 1420 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Passed on May 8 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-05-08 - Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 470
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Increasing the family income threshold at which a hospital's financial assistance policy must provide free and reduced cost medically necessary care to patients; requiring that a certain financial assistance policy include a certain payment plan, available to uninsured patients with family income between 200% and 500% of the federal poverty level and a certain mechanism for a patient to request a reconsideration; requiring that a certain financial assistance policy provide presumptive eligibility for certain care; etc.

Hospitals - Financial Assistance Policies and Bill Collections

Del. Robbyn Lewis [D]	Del. Erek Barron [D]	Del. Alfred Carr [D]	Del. Lorig Charkoudian [D]
Del. Samuel Rosenberg [D]	Del. Sheila Ruth [D]

2020-03-18 - Senate - Third Reading Passed (Y: 45 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2020-03-17 - House - Third Reading Passed (Y: 134 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 7) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-05-08	House	Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 470
2020-03-18	House	Returned Passed
2020-03-18	Senate	Third Reading Passed (45-0)
2020-03-18	Senate	Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Hershey) Adopted
2020-03-18	Senate	Second Reading Passed
2020-03-18	Senate	Favorable Adopted
2020-03-18	Senate	Favorable Report by Finance
2020-03-18	Senate	Referred Finance
2020-03-17	House	Third Reading Passed (134-0)
2020-03-17	House	Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2020-03-17	House	Favorable with Amendments {786781/1 Adopted
2020-03-16	House	Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
2020-02-11	House	Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
2020-02-07	House	First Reading Health and Government Operations

SB875 (Crossfiled) 2020-02-07 - Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Health - General	19	214.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
Health - General	19	214.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB1420?ys=2020RS
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb1420f.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb1420t.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/amds/bil_0000/hb1420_78678101.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes_comm/hb1420_hgo.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes_comm/hb1420_fin.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes/House/1057.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes/Senate/1089.pdf