---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Telemedicine - Assertive Community Treatment and Mobile Treatment Services"
description: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Telemedicine - Assertive Community Treatment and Mobile Treatment Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 704"
citation: "Maryland SB 704 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Committees and Commissions", "Health", "Department of", "Medical Assistance", "Patients", "Psychiatrists", "Reimbursement Rates", "Reports", "Sunset", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Klausmeier"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-02"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c903d9d8-0328-4f29-9f3e-80dd64b2344a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB704&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "d560d5fb13ecd304d45971971f7612a7da4b44d022ffc3b860f612c9d8a4fb0b"
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 SB 704 (2018) — Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Telemedicine - Assertive Community Treatment and Mobile Treatment Services

## 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/2018RS/bills/sb/sb0704f.pdf)

## Votes

- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Klausmeier — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-02** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-02** Favorable with Amendments {897078/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-06** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-07** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-30** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable with Amendments {476880/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-05** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 691 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c903d9d8-0328-4f29-9f3e-80dd64b2344a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).