---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Care Practitioners – Telehealth and Shortage"
description: "Health Care Practitioners – Telehealth and Shortage"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 448"
citation: "Maryland HB 448 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Charles", "Cullison", "K. Young", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "Sample-Hughes"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-23"
last_action: "2020-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac4a3980-1761-49ef-a704-f949f9c013f2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0448?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "06d094dd1a95662d8b233aca591f1b9a1ce63d27add8e934090fd2b2fd88b831"
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 448 (2020) — Health Care Practitioners – Telehealth and Shortage

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Health Care Practitioners – Telehealth and Shortage** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_15_hb0448e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Health Care Practitioners – Telehealth and Shortage** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0448e.pdf)
3. **First - Health Care Practitioners - Telehealth** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0448f.pdf)
4. **Third - Health Care Practitioners - Telehealth** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0448t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Amend) — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **130–6** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **131–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Charles — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- K. Young — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Pendergrass — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-23** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-09** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-15** Floor Amendment {
- **2020-03-15** Motion Special Order until 3/16 (Senator Kagan) Adopted
- **2020-03-16** Floor Amendment {
- **2020-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-17** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2020-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-17** Passed Enrolled
- **2020-04-03** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 15 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac4a3980-1761-49ef-a704-f949f9c013f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).