---
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: "SB 402"
citation: "Maryland SB 402 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kagan", "Lam"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-27"
last_action: "2020-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf1021e7-7907-4bf2-a115-1400f407eda9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0402?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "58f00b232878cf02f650d6eb4f0a742a0743f8e4d5985123b76cf9b07d2c3806"
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 402 (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_16_sb0402e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Health Care Practitioners – Telehealth and Shortage** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0402e.pdf)
3. **First - Health Care Practitioners - Telehealth** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0402f.pdf)
4. **Third - Health Care Practitioners – Telehealth and Shortage** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0402t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- (Emerg) — **132–0** (pass) · lower
- Floor Amendment McCray /383526/2 — **29–16** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kagan — primary (person)
- Lam — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-27** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** Reassigned to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2020-01-31** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-11** Motion Laid Over (Senator Edwards) Adopted
- **2020-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-12** Floor Amendment {
- **2020-03-12** Motion Special Order until 3/13 (Senator McCray) Adopted
- **2020-03-13** Floor Amendment {
- **2020-03-13** Floor Amendment {
- **2020-03-13** Floor Amendment {
- **2020-03-13** Floor Amendment {
- **2020-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-15** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-17** Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day (Delegate Kelly) Adopted
- **2020-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2020-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Passed Enrolled
- **2020-04-03** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 16 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cf1021e7-7907-4bf2-a115-1400f407eda9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).