| MD | SB224 | Pass | Requiring a person in charge of a cemetery to write on a burial-transit permit, the date of final disposition, the name and physical address of the cemetery, the burial, inurnment or scattering section and the lot and space number, or if the body or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 106 |
| MD | SB219 | Pass | Extending to December 31, 2030, the termination date of the Senior Prescription Drug Assistance Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 48 |
| MD | SB217 | Pass | Conforming provisions of State health insurance law with existing federal requirements, including by updating effective dates for federal regulations, clarifying federal consumer protection regulations resulting from changes to the federal No Surpris...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 118 |
| MD | SB212 | Pass | Altering the membership and terms of members of the Behavioral Health Advisory Council; altering the membership of the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access; requiring the Commission, in coordination with the Council, to make reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 42 |
| MD | HB1048 | Pass | Altering the membership and terms of members of the Behavioral Health Advisory Council; altering the membership of the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access; and requiring the Commission, in coordination with the Council, to make ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 41 |
| MD | HB1521 | Pass | Altering the eligibility requirements for the Maryland Children's Health Program; and repealing the requirement that the Program be administered, based on the family income of eligible individuals, through the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 47 |
| MD | SB445 | Engross
Sine Die | Defining the term "Health and Human Services Referral System" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the System to mean a certain coordinated system for health and human service resources that is accessible to State residents, rather...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB590 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain provisions of law prohibiting discrimination based on certain protected characteristics to include prohibitions on discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, marital status, and disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Simonaire) Adopted |
| MD | SB878 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to conduct certain prevalence studies concerning problem and pathological mobile gambling, with an initial study to be completed on or before July 1, 2029; requiring the Secretary of Health, on or before No...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Guzzone) Adopted |
| MD | SB1006 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a hospital, under certain circumstances, to sell the medical debt of patients if the debt is sold to a governmental unit or an entity that is under contract with the unit for the purpose of canceling the debt; requiring that a hospital's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Third Reading Passed (114-20) |
| MD | HB1141 | Engross
Sine Die | Stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Information Technology evaluate the feasibility of creating a virtual 3-1-1 portal as a source for Maryland residents to obtain nonemergency government information and services utilizi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1180 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail from displaying cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices for sale unless the products are located behind a counter; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1263 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing certain requirements for assisted living referrers, including requirements related to the maintenance of general liability insurance, criminal history records checks, and the provision of certain agreements and descriptions of services; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB784 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the sales and use tax rate imposed on firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition from 6% to 11%; and providing that the sales and use tax does not apply to the sale of certain firearm accessories and ammunition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB874 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a hospital or an ambulatory surgical facility from employing or contracting with an individual to provide surgical technology services unless the individual completes certain educational requirements and holds a certain credential or prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB485 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB1165 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1019 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifying that a petition for emergency evaluation is effective for 5 days after being endorsed by the 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, but not to exceed a tot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1327 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Body Altering Aesthetics Advisory Committee within the Maryland Department of Health to study whether the current health occupations licensing and certification system adequately regulates the body altering aesthetics industry in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1396 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to conduct a certain study on linkages between levels of care within the substance use disorder treatment and recovery continuum of care; and requiring the Department to report the results of the study and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB829 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, subject to the limitations of its budget, to provide a virtual mental health awareness and skills building training program for service sector employees; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health, su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1194 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to establish a clinical staffing committee by January 1, 2025; requiring each clinical staffing committee to develop a clinical staffing plan by July 1, 2025; requiring that an administrator of a hosp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Finance 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 | HB1006 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a hospital or an ambulatory surgical facility from employing or contracting with an individual to provide surgical technology services unless the individual completes certain educational requirements and holds a certain credential or prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1253 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, on or before January 1, 2025, certain health care facilities to implement a program to provide individuals admitted to the health care facility reasonable access to a telephone.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB866 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a county to deem conclusively that a small halfway house or small private group home is a single-family dwelling or a multifamily dwelling for purposes of zoning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB1057 | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1298 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the father of a child to file a petition to add the father's surname to the child's name under certain circumstances and establishing related court procedures; and requiring the Maryland Judiciary to develop and update, as appropriate, a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB1104 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring out-of-network health care facilities to provide certain information to a consumer and obtain certain consent before providing a health care service; requiring that certain out-of-network status information be provided in a certain consent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1148 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring out-of-network health care facilities to provide certain information to a consumer and obtain certain consent before providing a health care service; requiring that certain out-of-network status information be provided in a certain consent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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 | SB497 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to cover nonprescription naloxone hydrochloride and any other drug or product that is approved by the federal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1094 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a community-based organization to establish an overdose prevention site pilot program with the approval of the Maryland Department of Health and in consultation with the local health department; requiring a program to acquire gas chromato...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1132 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing pharmaceutical manufacturers and representatives of pharmaceutical manufacturers to engage in the truthful promotion of off-label uses for drugs, biological products, and devices; and prohibiting certain persons from taking certain enforc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1414 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the grounds for disciplining the holder of an electronic smoking devices license or license applicant; altering the scope of the Clean Indoor Act and other provisions of law prohibiting smoking indoors to also prohibit the use of electronic ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1359 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that certain regulations adopted by the Department of Juvenile Services governing juvenile care facilities and juvenile detention facilities include a requirement for the establishment, implementation, and review of certain community relati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1423 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB352 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering the funding formula for community colleges and the State aid program for private nonprofit institutions of higher education; au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB736 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to cover nonprescription naloxone hydrochloride and any other drug or product that is approved by the federal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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 | SB863 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Attorney General to seek injunctive relief on behalf of the State on the basis of an imminent or ongoing violation of certain rights of residents of certain health care facilities; authorizing the Attorney General to request a court t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-17
To Senate Finance 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 | SB1175 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB186 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a Class B-CL (cigar lounge) beer, wine, and liquor license in Prince George's County; excluding the license from certain distance restrictions; excluding a certain business that operates in the county under the license from the requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Finance 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 |
