| MD | SB74 | Engross
Sine Die | Designating the American persimmon as the State fruit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB796 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Disability Service Animal Program in the Department of Disabilities; requiring the Department to select a nonprofit training entity for participation in the Program; and establishing the Maryland Disability Service Animal Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB825 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Health, on request of a county, to delegate to the county the authority to conduct site visits and full surveys of nursing homes; and requiring that the Maryland Department of Health and certain counties equally share the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB884 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an individual from committing or threatening certain actions, including certain actions related to sex trafficking, with the intent of coercing a pregnant woman to have an abortion; providing that a pregnant minor is considered an emancip...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB276 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to submit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention any data regarding abortion requested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, unless submitting the data would violate federal or State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1233 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that an abortion be performed by a physician, rather than a qualified provider; repealing certain provisions of law related to State interference with an abortion, regulations related to abortion, and liability or criminal punishment for qu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB858 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a qualified provider from performing or inducing an abortion on a pregnant woman within a certain period of time after the woman receives certain ultrasound imaging; establishing certain requirements related to the performance of a certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1216 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the High-Risk Pregnancy Reimbursement Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to provide reimbursement to individuals for unforeseen out-of-pocket costs for the individual's high-risk pregnancy; authorizing an individual to apply for reimburs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1475 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Health, on request of a unit of local government, to delegate to the unit of local government the authority to inspect and to conduct site visits and full surveys of related institutions and nursing homes; and requiring rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1491 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim the second Sunday in September as Prince Hall Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1173 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, beginning in a certain year, a certain tobacco product manufacturer to pay a certain equity fee instead of depositing certain funds in a certain escrow account; authorizing a certain tobacco product manufacturer to contest the amount of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB984 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing an apprenticeship preference program in State procurement; establishing a certain price preference for bids and proposals that will utilize registered apprentices in the performance of certain contracts; requiring contractors and certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1123 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to adopt minimum cybersecurity standards for hospitals and take certain other actions related to the cybersecurity of hospitals, including supporting hospitals that do not meet the minimum cybersecurity s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB370 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Labor and the Department of Human Services, to conduct a study on the preparedness of health facilities in the State to respond to viral illnesses and the ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1412 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Abortion Care Access Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care services for individuals in the State; establishing the Abortion Care Access Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to provide grants u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1096 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a community-based organization, with the approval of the Maryland Department of Health, to establish an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program to provide a location for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1383 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Howard County Board of Education to publish a policy on or before January 1, 2025, concerning the inclusion and use of liquidated damages provisions in procurement contracts; requiring each student transportation procurement contract en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1121 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a licensed health care provider who prescribes or dispenses an opioid or an opioid overdose reversal drug, to provide certain information to the individual receiving the prescription; and authorizing a pharmacist to comply with the requirem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1260 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Attorney General to give notice to State agencies and the public when a court orders that the State may not require a person to possess a specified permit, license, or certificate; and requiring State agencies to reimburse issuance and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1098 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in the State food that contains brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, or red dye 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1176 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the financial eligibility criteria for the home- and community-based services waiver submitted by the Maryland Department of Health to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to include categorically needy individuals with an income d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1422 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting discrimination based on an individual's refusal to undergo a genetic procedure in education, public accommodations, commercial leasing, housing, and employment and by certain licensed or regulated persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB883 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain requirements relating to an annual evaluation of the use of emerging technologies in providing public services by the Secretary of Information Technology; and requiring the evaluation to include an assessment of the use of emerging t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB987 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering provisions of law relating to equal access to public services for individuals with limited English proficiency by establishing certain requirements for certain State departments, agencies, or programs, including establishing certain position...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1376 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, managed care organizations, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for a special administrative...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1190 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting, beginning June 1, 2025, a person from selling a pesticide that has PFAS chemicals listed as an active ingredient on the labeling accompanying the pesticide; and prohibiting, beginning December 31, 2025, a person from using a pesticide th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a school health practitioner, health care practitioner, or certified school psychologist employed by or under a contract with a school-based health center, local school system, or local health department to provide school health services at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1149 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "hospital" to require a hospital located outside the State that provides outpatient services to patients in the State to provide a certain written notice regarding outpatient facility fees under certain circumstances; alter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB790 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing designated medical personnel to administer medical cannabis to qualifying patients only if the cannabis is obtained through the qualifying patients caregiver and is administered in accordance with the certifying provider's written instruc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1100 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring child advocacy centers to report annually to the Behavioral Health Administration certain information related to behavioral health care services provided at the center; requiring the Administration to include in its annual report certain in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1421 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from offering for sale in the State a gene structure- or function-modifying product unless the product is labeled in a prominent and conspicuous manner with the words "Gene structure- or function-modifying product" and all potent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1085 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain reporting requirements on health insurance carriers relating to compliance with the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act; altering requirements for certain analyses of nonquantitative treatment limitations required o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB184 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Healthy Maryland Program as a public corporation and a unit of State government to provide comprehensive universal single-payer health care services for residents of the State by January 1, 2026; establishing requirements and prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1184 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a unit to structure procurement procedures to meet federal procurement standards and to try to achieve or exceed a certain overall percentage goal of the unit's total dollar value of procurement contracts to be made with historically underu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1286 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Propose the Maryland State Song to recommend the adoption of a State song; and requiring the Task Force to report its recommendations to the General Assembly by December 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB619 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission on Universal Health Care to determine the feasibility of establishing a State universal health care program to provide health benefits to all residents of the State through a single-payer system; and requiring the Commissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1040 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide limited behavioral health services to individuals under the age of 18 years regardless of whether the individual has a behavioral health diagnosis; requiring the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB804 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "medical service" for the purpose of providing an exemption to the certificate of need requirement by removing psychiatry and any subcategory of psychiatry; and providing that a certificate of need is not required to establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1177 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that certain individuals, before signing a continuing care agreement, are entitled to a certain visit and certain information; authorizing subscribers in a continuing care retirement community to take certain actions and to participate in c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB784 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force on Reducing Emergency Department Wait Times to monitor, discuss, and make recommendations for reducing emergency department wait times including legislative, regulatory, or other policy initiatives; and requiring the Task ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage for calcium score testing for individuals who have at least three of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1036 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to reimburse physicians billing for maternal fetal medicine services at the rate set under the federal Medicare fee schedule.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB739 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a list of diet pills, make the list publicly accessible on or before January 1, 2025, and update the list on a quarterly basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB880 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the reimbursement levels for drug products that the Maryland Medical Assistance Program is required to establish and that pharmacy benefits managers that contract with a pharmacy on behalf of a managed care organization are required to reimb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1351 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage for the full length of long-term antibiotic treatment of Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses under certain circumst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB965 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the eligibility requirements for certain screening mammograms and clinical breast examinations provided by the Breast Cancer Program to include women under the age of 45 years who are considered high risk for breast cancer; and requiring the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1289 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "practice social work" to clarify the types of assessments that may be performed by a licensee, add biopsychosocial treatment as a treatment option, and clarify the scope of practice for individuals licensed as certified so...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1368 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain health insurance entities from taking certain actions with respect to the dispensing of clinician-administered drugs and related services; and authorizing certain health insurance entities to allow the use of a certain pharmacy or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB686 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a youth sports program to develop venue-specific emergency action plans for each facility that is used by the youth sports program during relevant athletic seasons; requiring an action plan to include the operation and use of automated exte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB982 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting insurance carriers that offer life insurance, long-term care insurance, and disability insurance policies or contracts from taking certain action regarding coverage based on whether an applicant or a policy or contract holder has requeste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
