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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Outpatient Mental Health Centers – Medical Directors – Telehealth"
+description: "Outpatient Mental Health Centers – Medical Directors – Telehealth"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 570"
+citation: "Maryland HB 570 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Health", "Communications", "Health", "Health Care Facilities", "Health Occupations", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Patients", "Rules and Regulations", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Sample-Hughes"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-02-04"
+last_action: "2019-04-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16066ca1-99f6-4de1-8112-7952285ea72e"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB570&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "0d4d5f73e5dbb549570b83b6150a1f9c371baf2b27f9a5539376d772d3d64d0f"
+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 570 (2019) — Outpatient Mental Health Centers – Medical Directors – Telehealth
+
+## 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/hb/hb0570f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **133–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
+- Barron — cosponsor (person)
+- Bhandari — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles — cosponsor (person)
+- Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
+- Crutchfield — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-04** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-08** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-05** Favorable with Amendments {596783/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-07** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-08** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Floor Amendment {413929/1 (Senator McCray) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-04** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (133-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-04** Passed Enrolled
+- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 274 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16066ca1-99f6-4de1-8112-7952285ea72e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+