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type: "Bill"
title: "Outpatient Mental Health Centers Medical Directors Telehealth"
description: "Outpatient Mental Health Centers Medical Directors Telehealth"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 570"
citation: "Maryland HB 570 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Communications", "Health", "Health Care Facilities", "Health Occupations", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Patients", "Rules and Regulations", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sample-Hughes"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16066ca1-99f6-4de1-8112-7952285ea72e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB570&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "0d4d5f73e5dbb549570b83b6150a1f9c371baf2b27f9a5539376d772d3d64d0f"
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 570 (2019) — Outpatient Mental Health Centers Medical Directors Telehealth
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0570f.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1400** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **450** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **1330** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bhandari — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Charles — cosponsor (person)
- Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
- Crutchfield — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-04** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Favorable with Amendments {596783/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-07** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Floor Amendment {413929/1 (Senator McCray) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-04** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (133-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-04** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 274 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16066ca1-99f6-4de1-8112-7952285ea72e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).