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type: "Bill"
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title: "Health Insurance - Health Care Services Delivered Through Telehealth - Coverage"
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description: "Health Insurance - Health Care Services Delivered Through Telehealth - Coverage"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
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legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
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session: "2017"
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identifier: "HB 983"
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citation: "Maryland HB 983 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Contracts", "Counselors", "Health", "Health Benefit Exchange", "Health Insurance", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Substance Abuse", "Telecommunications and Information Technology", "Telephones"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Pena-Melnyk"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 16
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2017-02-08"
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last_action: "2017-05-25"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71534dcd-cd6f-40b6-80c3-cb7a2f58b72f"
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source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB983&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
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source_hash: "0b718ee6449a3cf3fab6a4813ad45e464357f963efdf00007e0565e0bcca6b47"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
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---
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# Maryland HB 983 (2017) — Health Insurance - Health Care Services Delivered Through Telehealth - Coverage
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0983f.pdf)
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## Votes
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- Third Reading — **126–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
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- Angel — cosponsor (person)
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- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
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- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
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- Frush — cosponsor (person)
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- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
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- Hill — cosponsor (person)
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- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
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- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
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- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
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- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
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- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
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- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
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- Miele — cosponsor (person)
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- Morales — cosponsor (person)
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- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
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- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
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- Platt — cosponsor (person)
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- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
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- Saab — cosponsor (person)
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- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
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- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
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- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
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- West — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-02-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-22** Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
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- **2017-03-09** Hearing canceled
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- **2017-03-09** Hearing 3/13 at 12:00 p.m.
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- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {626783/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (126-0) `passage`
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- **2017-03-20** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2017-03-21** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
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- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed
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- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
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- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
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- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 765 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71534dcd-cd6f-40b6-80c3-cb7a2f58b72f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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