| MD | HB1328 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making certain requests; establishing requirements and prohibitions governing aid in dying, including requirements related to requests for aid in dying, consulting physicians, mental health assessm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1336 | Intro
25% | Altering requirements related to the reimbursement of out-of-pocket costs paid by certain hospital patients who were eligible for free care; requiring certain hospitals to determine the eligibility of certain patients for refunds and provide a refund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB196 | Engross
50% | Specifying that fees collected for electronic transactions for procurements are those due to the State and not any fees due to a third party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB372 | Engross
50% | Repealing the limitation on the period during which the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide reimbursement for certain health care servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB5 | Engross
50% | Renaming the State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Pilot Program to be the State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Program; repealing the termination date of certain provisions of law that establish and govern the funding for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB94 | Engross
50% | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide coverage for self-measured blood pressure monitoring for certain eligible Program recipients; and requiring reimbursement of health care provider and other staff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1004 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in partnership with certain entities, to incorporate information regarding treatments approved by the Food and Drug Administration for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and to increase understandin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1013 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations from applying a prior authorization requirement, step therapy protocol, or fail...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB108 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB373 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB95 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a health care provider from using the health care provider's reproductive material when providing assistive reproductive treatment without the consent of the recipient of the treatment; prohibiting a health care provider from using a dono...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB930 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care clinical services for individuals in the State; establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1271 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a qualified provider from performing or inducing an abortion on a pregnant woman within 24 hours after the woman receives certain ultrasound imaging; establishing certain requirements related to the performance of a certain transabdominal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1069 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the use of discretionary clauses in life insurance policies, health insurance policies, and annuity contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1087 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for certain prescription drugs used to treat a symptom of or side effect from the treatment of stag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1357 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to collect and compile annual data on the costs of birth, postpartum care, pregnancy care, and abortion; requiring the Department to post on its website and submit to the General Assembly a reproductive hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB48 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Department of General Services to include a notation on a certain identification card indicating that the holder is a veteran under certain circumstances; requiring the Department to obtain the consent of a certain holder of an identi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1220 | Intro
25% | Excluding transportation protection agreements from the definition of "preneed burial contract" and "pre-need contract" under the Maryland Cemetery Act and the Maryland Morticians and Funeral Directors Act, respectively; and providing that transporta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB223 | Engross
50% | Renaming the Senior Call-Check Service and Notification Program to be the Senior Call-Check and Social Connections Program; providing the purpose of the Program is to provide regular, direct communication from the Department of Aging or the Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB260 | Engross
50% | Repealing a requirement that certain departments or units of State government annually submit a report on the management of forms to the Department of General Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB156 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Workgroup on Universal Newborn Nurse Home Visiting Services; requiring the Workgroup to compile updated patient data and expenditure per patient from the Family Connect Programs, compare other maternal and newborn health programs in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB371 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Board of Pharmacy to send renewal notices to licensees, permit holders, and registrants by electronic means, rather than by first-class mail, unless the licensee, permit holder, or registrant requests to receive the renewal notice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1355 | Intro
25% | Altering the circumstances under which certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide coverage for medically appropriate and necessary hearing aids for adults to require coverage if the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1059 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Helping Everyone Afford Life-Saving Treatments and Health Care (HEALTH) Fund to assist Maryland Medical Assistance Program enrollees and insured individuals with heath care costs associated with services and benefits provided under S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB378 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to conduct an inspection of each assisted living program located in Prince George's County at least once every 60 days; and requiring the Department to publish a report of the inspection on the Department's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1031 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage for prescription weight loss drugs for individuals who have been diagnosed with obesity and have at least...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1301 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, the Maryland Children's Health Program, managed care organizations, and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from requiring prior authorizat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1086 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, managed care organizations, and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations, if providing coverage for the delivery of anesthesi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1082 | Intro
25% | Establishing the State-Based Health Insurance Subsidies Program to provide subsidies to individuals in the State to mitigate the impact of a reduction in certain federal advance premium tax credits for calendar year 2026; and requiring the Maryland H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1481 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Adapted Vehicle Access Pilot Program to provide adapted vehicles to individuals who require a wheelchair for mobility; requiring the Department of Disabilities to implement and administer the Program, solicit certain donations for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB905 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to establish and maintain a clinical staffing committee and to implement a clinical staffing plan; requiring each clinical staffing committee to develop a clinical staffing plan; requiring by July 1 e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1292 | Intro
25% | Requiring a carrier to verify and, as necessary, update the carrier's provider directory at least once every 90 days and update the information that must be made available in the carrier's provider directory on the Internet within 2, rather than 15, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1291 | Intro
25% | Providing for the composition of a family council for certain assisted living programs; authorizing a family council to be created and, under certain circumstances, led by the owner, operator, or staff of an assisted living program; requiring certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1268 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1314 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from using artificial intelligence to automatically deny prior authorizations; and prohibiting health care providers from charging a fee to obtain a pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1187 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations that provide coverage for chemotherapy to treat cancer to provide coverage for scalp cooling systems used for the preservatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1306 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish certain specialized clinics for the management and treatment of sickle cell disease and establish a scholarship program for medical residents who specialize in benign or classical hematology wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1163 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force to Study Fencing for Bodies of Water and Playgrounds; requiring the Task Force to review best practices for fencing bodies of water, assess how fencing and similar environmental interventions can be used to prevent injurie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1208 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person, from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028, from selling food that contains Red Dye No. 3 in the State unless the food packaging includes a certain warning; and prohibiting a person, beginning on October 1, 2028, from manu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1399 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a licensed health care practitioner from prescribing, dispensing, or administering a cross-sex hormone or otherwise providing cross-sex hormone therapy for the treatment of certain mental health diagnoses to an individual who is a minor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1341 | Intro
25% | Requiring health insurance carriers to operate a 24-hour call center for appeals and adverse decisions, include certain information in a certain manner in the written notice of adverse decisions required to be sent to members, and conduct an annual s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1454 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Aging to contract with an independent consultant to complete a study on the licensing and regulation of continuing care retirement communities and continuing care at-home providers; and requiring the Department to submit t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1409 | Intro
25% | Providing for an exception to the prohibition against willfully intercepting wire or electronic communication for a resident in a medical care facility under certain circumstances; requiring a medical care facility to allow electronic monitoring of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1251 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain health care facilities to adopt a certain policy relating to obstetric services and to provide evidence to the Maryland Department of Health that the health care facility has the policy; and requiring insurers that issue or deliver ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1439 | Intro
25% | Exempting from certain requirements relating to offering health benefit plans to small employers in the State health benefit plans issued through a professional employer organization, coemployer, or other organization located in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1351 | Intro
25% | Altering the period of time in which certain carriers are required to accept or deny certain social workers, counselors, therapists, and psychology associates for participation on the carrier's provider panel to within 30 days after the date a carrie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1474 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an out-of-state licensed professional counselor to provide clinical professional counseling services to nonresident students enrolled in an institution of higher education in the State under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1298 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "practice audiology", including by clarifying that the ordering and performing of certain scanning and imaging are included as these procedures related to auditory or vestibular conditions in the human ear.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1246 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to include certain discounts, financial assistance payments, product vouchers, and other out-of-pocket expenses made by or on behalf of an insured or enr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1243 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from excluding coverage for certain specialty drugs that are administered or dispensed by a provider that is an in-network provider of covered medical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
