republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2023-2024/sb-739.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending Title 40 (Insurance) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in regulation of insurers and related persons generally, providing for telemedicine."
description: "An Act amending Title 40 (Insurance) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in regulation of insurers and related persons generally, providing for telemedicine."
jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "SB 739"
citation: "Pennsylvania SB 739 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elder Vogel"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 27
vote_count: 12
first_action: "2023-06-02T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-07-03T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7475621f-a790-4bc5-a905-341180807c06"
source_url: "https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=22&rollcallid=1795&sessYr=2023&sessInd=0"
source_hash: "c6de45c3644234ca1200d9c70961aa1b39f1a843e6dc11c1dd7adcb45c9677cf"
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-pa"]
---

# Pennsylvania SB 739 (2023-2024) — An Act amending Title 40 (Insurance) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in regulation of insurers and related persons generally, providing for telemedicine.

## Version chain

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

1. **House Amendment A04588** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/amendments/text/2023/0/A04588)
2. **Printer's No. PN0824** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2023/0/SB0739/PN0824)
3. **Printer's No. PN0981** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2023/0/SB0739/PN0981)
4. **Printer's No. PN1590** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2023/0/SB0739/PN1590)
5. **Printer's No. PN1670** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2023/0/SB0739/PN1670)
6. **Senate Amendment A01268** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/amendments/text/2023/0/A01268)
7. **Senate Amendment A04347** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/amendments/text/2023/0/A04347)

## Votes

- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-Reported as Committed — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE — **47–1** (pass) · upper
- CONCUR IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS — **49–1** (pass) · upper
- Committee vote (Insurance): Report Bill As Amended — **25–0** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Health): Re-refer Bill To Another Committee — **25–0** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Banking & Insurance): Reported as Amended — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — **37–0** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Insurance): Adopt Amendment — **25–0** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Banking & Insurance): Adopt Amendment — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE — **194–8** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Rules & Executive Nominations): Re-Reported as Committed — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- VOGEL AMENDMENT NO. A-4347 — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Elder Vogel — primary (person)
- Art Haywood — cosponsor (person)
- Camera Bartolotta — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel Laughlin — cosponsor (person)
- David Argall — cosponsor (person)
- Devlin Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Gene Yaw — cosponsor (person)
- Greg Rothman — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Costa — cosponsor (person)
- John Kane — cosponsor (person)
- Judith Schwank — cosponsor (person)
- Judy Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Lisa Baker — cosponsor (person)
- Maria Collett — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Stefano — cosponsor (person)
- Rosemary Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Aument — cosponsor (person)
- Scott Martin — cosponsor (person)
- Sharif Street — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Santarsiero — cosponsor (person)
- Tracy Pennycuick — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne Langerholc — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-02T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Banking & Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-27T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as amended `amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2023-06-27T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
- **2023-10-04T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
- **2023-10-04T04:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
- **2024-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Amended on third consideration `amendment-passage`
- **2024-05-08T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-09T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Health `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-21T04:00:00+00:00** Reported with request to re-refer to Insurance `committee-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-21T04:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-03T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as amended `amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2024-06-03T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
- **2024-06-03T04:00:00+00:00** Laid on the table
- **2024-06-11T04:00:00+00:00** Removed from table
- **2024-06-12T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
- **2024-06-12T04:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-24T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-24T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-06-25T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Rules & Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-25T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported on concurrence, as committed `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-26T04:00:00+00:00** Senate concurred in House amendments
- **2024-06-26T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
- **2024-06-27T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
- **2024-06-27T04:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-07-03T04:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-07-03T04:00:00+00:00** Act No. 42 of 2024

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7475621f-a790-4bc5-a905-341180807c06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).