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MDHB506Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program; establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program Fund to support actions associated with the Program's purpose; altering the defin...
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2025-01-22
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB519Intro
25%
Requiring hospitals in the State to offer parking at no cost for inpatients for the duration of the inpatient's admission and for outpatients attending a scheduled medical appointment for the duration of the appointment; and requiring hospitals in th...
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2025-01-22
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB536Intro
25%
Altering the defined term "auto-injectable epinephrine" to be "emergency use epinephrine" and to include certain drug delivery devices and products; and altering the name of the Emergency Use Auto-Injectable Epinephrine Program to be the Emergency Us...
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2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB553Intro
25%
Requiring, beginning on January 1, 2026, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide coverage for self-measured blood pressure monitoring for certain eligible Program recipients; requiring the Program to develop and implement an education camp...
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2025-01-22
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB547Intro
25%
Requiring hospitals in the State to comply with a certain federal price transparency law; requiring hospitals to maintain and make available a list of standard charges for the hospital's shoppable services; prohibiting hospitals from selling certain ...
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2025-01-22
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB164Intro
25%
Replacing obsolete references to the Maryland State Firemen's Association with references to the Maryland State Firefighters Association; and replacing related terminology.
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "legally protected health care" to include certain reproductive, fertility preservation, and contraceptive treatment, including medications and supplies, for the purposes of certain provisions of law that prohibit health oc...
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 3:45 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB24Intro
25%
Altering certain terminology throughout the Annotated Code that refers to a clergyman to refer to a member of the clergy and churches to refer to faith institutions and places of worship.
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB153Intro
25%
Altering certain provisions of law to reflect the renaming of the Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee to be the Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee; altering certain provisions of law to reflect the renam...
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB333Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission and the Maryland Insurance Administration to include a cybersecurity expert as staff to perform certain functions and submit to the State Chief Information Security Officer a report on the cybersecurity p...
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB417Intro
25%
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...
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB382Intro
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...
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB418Intro
25%
Altering the reimbursement rate at which health maintenance organizations are required to pay certain nonparticipating health care providers for services.
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB381Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage to victims of domestic violence for aesthetic services and re...
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB424Intro
25%
Requiring the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, under certain circumstances, to establish a process for setting upper payment limits for all purchases and payor reimbursements of prescription drug products in the State that the Board determines ...
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB383Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage related to orthoses beginning January 1, 2026; defining "orthoses" as a certain c...
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB429Intro
25%
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 counties equally share the costs of ...
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB466Intro
25%
Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of law governing public health, the regulation of health occupations, and ho...
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB447Intro
25%
Requiring a hospital to conduct screening on an individual presenting at an emergency department of the hospital to determine whether the individual has an emergency medical condition; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the treatme...
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2025-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB458Intro
25%
Requiring applicants for renewal of certain licenses and certain certificates issued by certain health occupation boards to attest that the applicant completed an implicit bias and structural racism training program, rather than an implicit bias trai...
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2025-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB437Intro
25%
Altering the reimbursement rate at which health maintenance organizations are required to pay certain nonparticipating health care providers for services.
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2025-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB448Intro
25%
Establishing the Self-Directed Mental Health Services Pilot Program in the Maryland Department of Health to facilitate access to clinically appropriate, person-centered, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed self-directed services in the most in...
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2025-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB438Intro
25%
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...
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2025-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB428Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program; establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program Fund to support actions associated with fulfilling the Program's purpose; alterin...
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2025-01-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB465Intro
25%
Requiring nursing homes and assisted living programs to install, operate, and maintain video surveillance equipment in the common areas of the facilities to detect the abuse, neglect, or exploitation of residents; and requiring nursing homes and assi...
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2025-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB459Intro
25%
Altering the defined term "auto-injectable epinephrine" to be "emergency use epinephrine" and to include certain drug delivery devices and products; and altering the name of the Emergency Use Auto-Injectable Epinephrine Program to be the Emergency Us...
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2025-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB314Intro
25%
Altering the circumstances under which the Secretary of Health is required to make a new certificate of birth due to the change of a sex designation of an individual; establishing requirements and a prohibition related to the making of new certificat...
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2025-01-20
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB356Intro
25%
Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual.
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2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 11:00 am]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB372Intro
25%
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...
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2025-01-20
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB474Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Commission on Health Equity, in coordination with the Maryland Department of Health, to establish a health equity measures advisory committee to determine the 10 widest disparities in health care quality, access, or outcomes fo...
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2025-01-20
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB468Intro
25%
Specifying that a petition for emergency evaluation is effective for 5 days after being endorsed by a certain court; authorizing a court, on a certain motion and for good cause shown, to extend a petition for up to 5 days at a time, not to exceed a t...
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2025-01-20
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB406Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage related to orthoses beginning January 1, 2026; defining "orthosis" as a certain c...
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2025-01-20
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB43Intro
25%
Authorizing the Board of Public Works, on recommendation of the Secretary of Health, to make grants under the Federally Qualified Health Centers Grant Program to counties, municipal corporations, and nonprofit corporations for the acquisition of land...
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2025-01-17
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB352Intro
25%
Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribut...
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2025-01-17
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB367Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, beginning July 1, 2026, to provide supportive housing and health services to certain Program recipients; establishing requirements for professionals seeking certification as a certified supportive ho...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB376Intro
25%
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 counties equally share the costs of ...
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2025-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB420Intro
25%
Altering the defined term "auto-injectable epinephrine" to be "emergency use epinephrine" and to include certain drug delivery devices and products; and altering the name of the Emergency Use Auto-Injectable Epinephrine Program to be the Emergency Us...
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2025-01-16
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB430Intro
25%
Prohibiting the Maryland Department of Health from establishing an upper age limit for eligibility to receive Employed Individuals with Disabilities Program services.
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2025-01-16
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB378Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB396Intro
25%
Establishing the Substance Abuse Early Intervention and Detoxification Services Fund to provide treatment and rehabilitation to students expelled from school in Prince George's County and cover expenses incurred by uninsured or underinsured minors in...
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2025-01-16
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB357Intro
25%
Requiring the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, under certain circumstances, to establish a process for setting upper payment limits for all purchases and payor reimbursements of prescription drug products in the State that the Board determines ...
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2025-01-16
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB405Intro
25%
Authorizing a hospital to sell the medical debt of patients if the debt is sold to Prince George's County for the purpose of canceling the debt; requiring the contract between the hospital and Prince George's County to state that the sole purpose of ...
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2025-01-16
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB443Intro
25%
Altering the statement that must be included on a baby food product label if the baby food product has been tested for toxic heavy metals for the purpose of changing the term included on the label from "toxic heavy metal" to "toxic element".
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2025-01-16
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB387Intro
25%
Imposing an excise tax on certain gross receipts of certain firearms dealers derived from the sales of firearms in the State and sales of firearms to residents of the State; etc.
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2025-01-16
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB373Intro
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...
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2025-01-16
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB414Intro
25%
Establishing the Mental Health Care Fund for Children and Youth to support improved access to mental health care services to children and youth in the State; imposing a tax on certain annual revenues derived from certain digital social media services...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB32Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish a forensic review board at facilities that have charge of persons who have been committed to the facility as not criminally responsible; requiring each forensic review board to review the eligi...
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2025-01-15
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB268Intro
25%
Altering provisions of law related to a hospital's financial assistance and collection of debts policies; specifying the percentage by which a hospital is required to reduce a patient's out-of-pocket expenses under certain circumstances; adding to th...
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2025-01-15
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB8Intro
25%
Requiring, beginning July 1, 2026, certain food manufacturers, processors, and retailers to use certain terms regarding the quality or safety date on labels of food items manufactured for human consumption; prohibiting, beginning on July 1, 2026, a p...
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2025-01-15
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB334Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish a program to provide universal newborn nurse home visiting services to all families with newborns residing in the State; requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenan...
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2025-01-15
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
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