5941153bb7
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
91 lines
3.8 KiB
Markdown
91 lines
3.8 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "Bill"
|
||
title: "Preserve Telehealth Access Act of 2021"
|
||
description: "Preserve Telehealth Access Act of 2021"
|
||
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
|
||
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
|
||
session: "2021"
|
||
identifier: "SB 3"
|
||
citation: "Maryland SB 3 (2021)"
|
||
classification: ["bill"]
|
||
subjects: []
|
||
status: "enacted"
|
||
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine", "Beidle", "Eckardt", "Elfreth", "Ellis", "Ferguson", "Griffith", "Guzzone", "Hershey", "Kagan", "Kelley", "Ready", "Washington", "West"]
|
||
version_count: 4
|
||
action_count: 18
|
||
vote_count: 3
|
||
first_action: "2020-10-13"
|
||
last_action: "2021-04-13"
|
||
source: "openstates"
|
||
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/070c01cd-6e36-4517-b828-c3536fe404b5"
|
||
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0003?ys=2021RS&search=True"
|
||
source_hash: "2dd77590a537415324950f04e87b96ce44e99403d48639d4152947f685d969fe"
|
||
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 3 (2021) — Preserve Telehealth Access Act of 2021
|
||
|
||
## Version chain
|
||
|
||
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
|
||
|
||
1. **Chapter - Preserve Telehealth Access Act of 2021** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_71_sb0003e.pdf)
|
||
2. **Enrolled - Preserve Telehealth Access Act of 2021** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0003e.pdf)
|
||
3. **First - Preserve Telehealth Access Act of 2021** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0003f.pdf)
|
||
4. **Third - Preserve Telehealth Access Act of 2021** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0003t.pdf)
|
||
|
||
## Votes
|
||
|
||
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **132–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
|
||
## Sponsors
|
||
|
||
- Augustine — primary (person)
|
||
- Beidle — primary (person)
|
||
- Eckardt — primary (person)
|
||
- Elfreth — primary (person)
|
||
- Ellis — primary (person)
|
||
- Ferguson — primary (person)
|
||
- Griffith — primary (person)
|
||
- Guzzone — primary (person)
|
||
- Hershey — primary (person)
|
||
- Kagan — primary (person)
|
||
- Kelley — primary (person)
|
||
- Ready — primary (person)
|
||
- Washington — primary (person)
|
||
- West — primary (person)
|
||
|
||
## Timeline
|
||
|
||
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
|
||
|
||
- **2020-10-13** Pre-filed `introduction`
|
||
- **2021-01-13** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2020-12-23** Hearing 1/27 at 1:00 p.m.
|
||
- **2021-03-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
|
||
- **2021-03-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
|
||
- **2021-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
|
||
- **2021-03-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
|
||
- **2021-03-10** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2021-03-17** Hearing 3/25 at 1:30 p.m.
|
||
- **2021-03-20** Hearing canceled
|
||
- **2021-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
|
||
- **2021-04-02** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
|
||
- **2021-04-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
|
||
- **2021-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
|
||
- **2021-04-05** Senate Concurs House Amendments
|
||
- **2021-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
|
||
- **2021-04-05** Passed Enrolled
|
||
- **2021-04-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 71 `executive-signature`
|
||
|
||
## Source
|
||
|
||
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/070c01cd-6e36-4517-b828-c3536fe404b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
|
||
|