---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Health Care Services Delivered Through Telehealth - Coverage"
description: "Health Insurance - Health Care Services Delivered Through Telehealth - Coverage"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 983"
citation: "Maryland HB 983 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Contracts", "Counselors", "Health", "Health Benefit Exchange", "Health Insurance", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Substance Abuse", "Telecommunications and Information Technology", "Telephones"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pena-Melnyk"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-08"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71534dcd-cd6f-40b6-80c3-cb7a2f58b72f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB983&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "0b718ee6449a3cf3fab6a4813ad45e464357f963efdf00007e0565e0bcca6b47"
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 983 (2017) — Health Insurance - Health Care Services Delivered Through Telehealth - Coverage

## 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/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0983f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **126–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Frush — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-22** Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-09** Hearing canceled
- **2017-03-09** Hearing 3/13 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {626783/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (126-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 765 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71534dcd-cd6f-40b6-80c3-cb7a2f58b72f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).