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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act amending Title 40 (Insurance) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in regulation of insurers and related persons generally, providing for telemedicine."
+description: "An Act amending Title 40 (Insurance) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in regulation of insurers and related persons generally, providing for telemedicine."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
+legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
+session: "2023-2024"
+identifier: "SB 739"
+citation: "Pennsylvania SB 739 (2023-2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Elder Vogel"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 12
+first_action: "2023-06-02T04:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2024-07-03T04:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7475621f-a790-4bc5-a905-341180807c06"
+source_url: "https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=22&rollcallid=1795&sessYr=2023&sessInd=0"
+source_hash: "c6de45c3644234ca1200d9c70961aa1b39f1a843e6dc11c1dd7adcb45c9677cf"
+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-pa"]
+---
+
+# Pennsylvania SB 739 (2023-2024) — An Act amending Title 40 (Insurance) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in regulation of insurers and related persons generally, providing for telemedicine.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **House Amendment A04588** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/amendments/text/2023/0/A04588)
+2. **Printer's No. PN0824** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2023/0/SB0739/PN0824)
+3. **Printer's No. PN0981** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2023/0/SB0739/PN0981)
+4. **Printer's No. PN1590** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2023/0/SB0739/PN1590)
+5. **Printer's No. PN1670** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2023/0/SB0739/PN1670)
+6. **Senate Amendment A01268** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/amendments/text/2023/0/A01268)
+7. **Senate Amendment A04347** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/amendments/text/2023/0/A04347)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-Reported as Committed — **24–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **47–1** (pass) · upper
+- CONCUR IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS — **49–1** (pass) · upper
+- Committee vote (Insurance): Report Bill As Amended — **25–0** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Health): Re-refer Bill To Another Committee — **25–0** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Banking & Insurance): Reported as Amended — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — **37–0** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Insurance): Adopt Amendment — **25–0** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Banking & Insurance): Adopt Amendment — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **194–8** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Rules & Executive Nominations): Re-Reported as Committed — **17–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOGEL AMENDMENT NO. A-4347 — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Elder Vogel — primary (person)
+- Art Haywood — cosponsor (person)
+- Camera Bartolotta — cosponsor (person)
+- Daniel Laughlin — cosponsor (person)
+- David Argall — cosponsor (person)
+- Devlin Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gene Yaw — cosponsor (person)
+- Greg Rothman — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Costa — cosponsor (person)
+- John Kane — cosponsor (person)
+- Judith Schwank — cosponsor (person)
+- Judy Ward — cosponsor (person)
+- Lisa Baker — cosponsor (person)
+- Maria Collett — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Stefano — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosemary Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryan Aument — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott Martin — cosponsor (person)
+- Sharif Street — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven Santarsiero — cosponsor (person)
+- Tracy Pennycuick — cosponsor (person)
+- Wayne Langerholc — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-02T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Banking & Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-27T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as amended `amendment-passage, committee-passage`
+- **2023-06-27T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2023-10-04T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2023-10-04T04:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2024-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Amended on third consideration `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-05-08T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-05-09T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Health `referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-21T04:00:00+00:00** Reported with request to re-refer to Insurance `committee-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-21T04:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-03T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as amended `amendment-passage, committee-passage`
+- **2024-06-03T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2024-06-03T04:00:00+00:00** Laid on the table
+- **2024-06-11T04:00:00+00:00** Removed from table
+- **2024-06-12T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2024-06-12T04:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-24T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2024-06-24T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-06-25T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Rules & Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-25T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported on concurrence, as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2024-06-26T04:00:00+00:00** Senate concurred in House amendments
+- **2024-06-26T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
+- **2024-06-27T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
+- **2024-06-27T04:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-07-03T04:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2024-07-03T04:00:00+00:00** Act No. 42 of 2024
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7475621f-a790-4bc5-a905-341180807c06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).
+