Maryland House Bill 715 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-4)
Status: Introduced on February 5 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-03-01 - Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: House Health and Government Operations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to require health care practitioners, when providing a well-child examination at the ages of 18 months and 24 months, to administer a specified screening tool for autism; requiring the Secretary to require a child to be referred for specified services if the child has a positive result on the screening tool; requiring health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the administration of the screening tool; etc.

Early Identification of Autism Act

Sen. Benjamin Kramer [D]	Del. Angela Angel [D]	Del. Charles Barkley [D]	Del. Ben Barnes [D]
Del. Kumar Barve [D]	Del. Wendell Beitzel [R]	Sen. Benjamin Brooks [D]	Del. Jason Buckel [R]
Del. Bonnie Cullison [D]	Del. David Fraser-hidalgo [D]	Del. Barbara Frush [D]	Del. Jay Jalisi [D]
Del. Marc Korman [D]	Del. Carol Krimm [D]	Del. Stephen Lafferty [D]	Del. Eric Luedtke [D]
Del. Susan McComas [R]	Del. Warren Miller [R]	Del. Marice Morales [D]	Del. Joseline Pena-Melnyk [D]
Del. Andrew Platt [D]	Del. Kirill Reznik [D]	Del. Kriselda Valderrama [D]	Sen. Jeff Waldstreicher [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-01	House	Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
2016-02-05	House	First Reading Health and Government Operations

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB0715?ys=2016rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2016RS/bills/hb/hb0715f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2016RS/fnotes/bil_0005/hb0715.pdf