she criticized the Hogan administration's handling of reimbursements for behavioral health services. On July 30, 2021, she issued a rebuke to Maryland Secretary of Health Dennis Schrader for his failure to appear at a joint legislative briefing about reimbursement rates, home health care programs and telehealth during the Covid State of Emergency. Instead, the deputy secretary Webster Ye attended. After 5 minutes and 42 seconds, Pendergrass ended the meeting and rescheduled it. During the 2022 session, she rebuked Delegate Dan Cox, who would later mount a failed run for governor of Maryland on the Republican Party ticket, after he compared a bill related to children seeking mental health services without a parents' consent to the Nazi experiments on children during Holocaust. On November 29, 2021, Pendergrass announced that she would not seek an eighth term in 2022. The Maryland House of Delegates honored her on the House floor, including with a speech from Delegate Joseline Peña-Melnyk, then vice chair of the Health and Government Operations Committee. Legislative notes Co-sponsored the Abortion Care Access Act , allowing nurse-midwives, physicians assistants and other qualified providers to perform abortions, along with physicians. It also mandates $3.5 million for the state Department of Mental Health to operate an Abortion Care Clinical Training Program Fund. She was among the lawmakers who called on Governor Hogan to release the training funding a year early, in July 2022, after the leaked draft of the Dobbs decision indicated the Supreme Court would overturn the constitutional right to an abortion Sponsored a bill (HB1083) in 2017 to make $2.7 million available for family planning through Planned Parenthood, guaranteeing women access to health care in the event the federal government revokes Title X funding. · Has sponsored the End of Life Option Act, which would allow terminally ill adult patients to take medication to aid in dying under certain conditions. This bill was unsuccessful in the 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019 General Assembly sessions. In the 2019 General Assembly session, however, the bill HB0399 passed in the House of Delegates but failed in a tie vote in the Senate. (2020 : HB643; 2019 : HB399 ; 2017: HB 370 Legislation - HB0370; 2016: HB 0404 Legislation - HB0370; and 2015: HB 1021 ) Sponsored a bill (HB0403)Legislation - HB0403 in 2017 that allows exceptions to the prohibition on doctors referring patients to health-care entities where they have a compensation arrangement.