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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program – Telemedicine – Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners and Psychiatrists"
+description: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program – Telemedicine – Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners and Psychiatrists"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 605"
+citation: "Maryland HB 605 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Health", "Electronic Communication", "Examinations", "Health", "Department of", "Health Occupations", "Internet", "Medical Assistance", "Medical Treatments", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Mobile Devices", "Nurses", "Patients", "Psychiatrists", "Reports", "Sunset", "Telecommunications and Information Technology", "Telephones", "Video"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kelly"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-06"
+last_action: "2019-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f268043-302d-4c94-a453-d551494df360"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB605&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "8078d18217c46c9c1823eda31edb65d80596d8b51fce5143a78ae86774647162"
+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 605 (2019) — Maryland Medical Assistance Program – Telemedicine – Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners and Psychiatrists
+
+## 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/hb0605f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kelly — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
+- Barron — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles — cosponsor (person)
+- Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-06** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-13** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {316181/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-18** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-27** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-27** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-29** Returned Passed
+- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 479 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8f268043-302d-4c94-a453-d551494df360`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+