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type: "Bill"
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title: "Outpatient Mental Health Centers – Medical Directors – Telehealth"
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description: "Outpatient Mental Health Centers – Medical Directors – Telehealth"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
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legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
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session: "2019"
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identifier: "SB 178"
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citation: "Maryland SB 178 (2019)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Public Health", "Administrative Agencies", "Committees and Commissions", "Health", "Health Care Facilities", "Health Occupations", "Licenses", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Patients", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Eckardt"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 19
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vote_count: 3
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first_action: "2019-01-23"
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last_action: "2019-04-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/254d7de7-fea1-4663-b991-f288d3f2e49a"
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source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB178&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
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source_hash: "43b446941cf3704abfbc3832d7378c9fc7f95177dcf54bc8e0a2fdebf53d6e3e"
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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 SB 178 (2019) — Outpatient Mental Health Centers – Medical Directors – Telehealth
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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/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0178f.pdf)
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## Votes
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- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
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- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
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- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Eckardt — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-01-23** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2019-01-28** Hearing 2/06 at 1:30 p.m.
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- **2019-02-25** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-02-26** Favorable with Amendments {557676/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-02-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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- **2019-02-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
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- **2019-03-01** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
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- **2019-03-12** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
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- **2019-03-25** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-03-26** Favorable with Amendments {376986/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-03-26** Special Order until 03/27 (Delegate Glenn) Adopted
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- **2019-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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- **2019-03-28** Special Order until 04/02 (Delegate Pena-Melnyk) Adopted
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- **2019-04-02** Floor Amendment {613124/1 (Delegate Pena-Melnyk) Adopted `amendment-passage`
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- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (140-0) `passage`
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- **2019-04-02** Senate Concur - House Amendments
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- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
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- **2019-04-02** Passed Enrolled
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- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 275 `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/254d7de7-fea1-4663-b991-f288d3f2e49a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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