Maryland Senate Bill 502 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on April 3 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-04-03 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 18
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]

Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide, subject to a certain limitation, mental health services appropriately delivered through telehealth to a patient in the patient's home setting; altering the definition of telehealth as it applies to certain entities; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to apply to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for an amendment to certain waivers to implement a pilot program to provide telehealth services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program; etc.

Telehealth – Mental Health and Chronic Condition Management Services – Coverage and Pilot Program

Sen. Stephen Hershey [R]

Sen. William Ferguson [D]

2020-03-17 - House - Third Reading Passed (Y: 134 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 7) [PASS]
2020-03-14 - Senate - Third Reading Passed (Y: 45 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-04-03	Senate	Approved by the Governor - Chapter 18
2020-03-18	Senate	Returned Passed
2020-03-17	House	Third Reading Passed (134-0)
2020-03-17	House	Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed
2020-03-16	House	Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations
2020-03-15	House	Referred Health and Government Operations
2020-03-14	Senate	Third Reading Passed (45-0)
2020-03-13	Senate	Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2020-03-13	Senate	Floor Amendment {853521/1 (Senator Hershey) Adopted
2020-03-13	Senate	Favorable with Amendments {437875/1 Adopted
2020-03-13	Senate	Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Hershey) Adopted
2020-03-13	Senate	Favorable with Amendments {437875/1
2020-03-13	Senate	Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
2020-01-31	Senate	Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
2020-01-29	Senate	First Reading Finance

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Health - General	15	103	(n/a)	See Bill Text
Insurance	15	139	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0502?ys=2020RS
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0502f.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0502t.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_18_sb0502t.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/amds/bil_0002/sb0502_43787501.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/amds/bil_0002/sb0502_85352101.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes_comm/sb0502_fin.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes_comm/sb0502_hgo.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes/Senate/0687.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes/House/1113.pdf