---
type: "Bill"
title: "Outpatient Mental Health Centers – Medical Directors – Telehealth"
description: "Outpatient Mental Health Centers – Medical Directors – Telehealth"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 178"
citation: "Maryland SB 178 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Administrative Agencies", "Committees and Commissions", "Health", "Health Care Facilities", "Health Occupations", "Licenses", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Patients", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eckardt"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/254d7de7-fea1-4663-b991-f288d3f2e49a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB178&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "43b446941cf3704abfbc3832d7378c9fc7f95177dcf54bc8e0a2fdebf53d6e3e"
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 178 (2019) — Outpatient Mental Health Centers – Medical Directors – Telehealth

## 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/sb/sb0178f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eckardt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** Hearing 2/06 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2019-02-25** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-26** Favorable with Amendments {557676/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-02-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-01** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-25** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** Favorable with Amendments {376986/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** Special Order until 03/27 (Delegate Glenn) Adopted
- **2019-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-28** Special Order until 04/02 (Delegate Pena-Melnyk) Adopted
- **2019-04-02** Floor Amendment {613124/1 (Delegate Pena-Melnyk) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (140-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-02** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-02** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 275 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/254d7de7-fea1-4663-b991-f288d3f2e49a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).