---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring"
description: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 534"
citation: "Maryland HB 534 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bhandari", "D. Jones", "Kerr", "Lehman", "Pena-Melnyk"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-21"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/edc87f4a-ace5-4334-9dad-97f49a714b66"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0534?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "f0ecfeb422dff3fd53a467e74ef53ec05de1af2aaf6c440809736211b082927c"
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 534 (2022) — Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_669_hb0534t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0534f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0534t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bhandari — primary (person)
- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-21** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-28** Hearing 2/09 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-03-14** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-15** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-16** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-30** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-30** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 669 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/edc87f4a-ace5-4334-9dad-97f49a714b66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).