---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists - Temporary Telehealth Licenses - Establishment"
description: "State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists - Temporary Telehealth Licenses - Establishment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1474"
citation: "Maryland HB 1474 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kaufman", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "McComas", "Nkongolo", "Pena-Melnyk", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "Ross", "S. Johnson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "Taylor", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-07"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e82ba638-b5c7-40fd-b568-3986c4a922c7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1474?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "582cb80ad80d79d4346872f4e6d7f6cbbaee83216c5f656a9334edd53ce8250d"
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 1474 (2025) — State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists - Temporary Telehealth Licenses - Establishment

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists - Temporary Telehealth Licenses - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_649_hb1474e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists - Temporary Telehealth Licenses - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1474e.pdf)
3. **First - Licensed Professional Counselors - Telehealth - Students Enrolled in Institutions of Higher Education** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1474f.pdf)
4. **Third - Licensed Professional Counselors - Telehealth - Students Enrolled in Institutions of Higher Education** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1474t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **140–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **42–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- Nkongolo — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Ross — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-07** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-11** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-11** Hearing 3/11 at 2:45 p.m.
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 649 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e82ba638-b5c7-40fd-b568-3986c4a922c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).