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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Telehealth – Mental Health and Chronic Condition Management Services – Coverage and Pilot Program"
+description: "Telehealth – Mental Health and Chronic Condition Management Services – Coverage and Pilot Program"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 1208"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1208 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Atterbeary", "Bartlett", "Carr", "D.M. Davis", "Hill", "Johnson", "Kelly", "Korman", "P. Young", "Ruth", "Saab", "Shetty", "Solomon", "Wilkins"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-02-07"
+last_action: "2020-04-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a7950d5-8f53-4c7f-b211-c5b5c1194bc2"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1208?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "22fb40c0d38295b46eaf39d75f1929a260e5273368763c742d6aee79af8d245e"
+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 1208 (2020) — Telehealth – Mental Health and Chronic Condition Management Services – Coverage and Pilot Program
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Telehealth – Mental Health and Chronic Condition Management Services – Coverage and Pilot Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_17_hb1208t.pdf)
+2. **First - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Telehealth - Pilot Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb1208f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Telehealth – Mental Health and Chronic Condition Management Services – Coverage and Pilot Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb1208t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **134–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Acevero — primary (person)
+- Atterbeary — primary (person)
+- Bartlett — primary (person)
+- Carr — primary (person)
+- D.M. Davis — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Johnson — primary (person)
+- Kelly — primary (person)
+- Korman — primary (person)
+- P. Young — primary (person)
+- Ruth — primary (person)
+- Saab — primary (person)
+- Shetty — primary (person)
+- Solomon — primary (person)
+- Wilkins — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-07** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-14** Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2020-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-18** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-18** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-18** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-18** Second Reading Passed
+- **2020-03-18** Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Hershey) Adopted
+- **2020-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
+- **2020-04-03** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 17 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a7950d5-8f53-4c7f-b211-c5b5c1194bc2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+