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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Telemedicine - Assertive Community Treatment and Mobile Treatment Services"
+description: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Telemedicine - Assertive Community Treatment and Mobile Treatment Services"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 704"
+citation: "Maryland SB 704 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Health", "Committees and Commissions", "Health", "Department of", "Medical Assistance", "Patients", "Psychiatrists", "Reimbursement Rates", "Reports", "Sunset", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Klausmeier"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-02-02"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c903d9d8-0328-4f29-9f3e-80dd64b2344a"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB704&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "d560d5fb13ecd304d45971971f7612a7da4b44d022ffc3b860f612c9d8a4fb0b"
+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 704 (2018) — Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Telemedicine - Assertive Community Treatment and Mobile Treatment Services
+
+## 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/2018RS/bills/sb/sb0704f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Klausmeier — primary (person)
+- Astle — cosponsor (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-02** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-02** Favorable with Amendments {897078/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-06** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-07** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-30** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-30** Favorable with Amendments {476880/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-04-05** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
+- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 691 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c903d9d8-0328-4f29-9f3e-80dd64b2344a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+