| MD | HB54 | Intro
25% | Repealing the termination date for a certain provision of law related to the maximum amount of total user fees that may be assessed on hospitals and related institutions by the Health Services Cost Review Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-10
Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| MD | HB672 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health jointly to conduct an assessment of school health and wellness personnel each year; altering the membership of the Maryland Council on Advancement of School-Based Healt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-10
Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations |
| MD | HB268 | Engross
50% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-06
Third Reading Passed (111-24) |
| MD | HB1020 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a consumer reporting agency from furnishing any consumer report containing certain adverse information relating to a consumer's medical debt, or any collection action against a consumer for medical debt, or maintain a file on a consumer r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-06
Third Reading Passed (101-33) |
| MD | HB1380 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to adopt regulations establishing minimum perinatal care standards for hospitals that meet or exceed the Maryland Perinatal System Standards for each hospital that provides obstetrical services; and requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB333 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 11:00 am]
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] | 2025-03-03
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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] | 2025-03-03
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 2:00 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] | 2025-03-03
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 11:00 am]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1515 | Intro
25% | Repealing the exemption from the certificate of need requirement for a change in bed capacity for certain facilities offering substance use disorder treatment services; altering the conditions for which a certificate of need is not required for a cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB24 | Engross
50% | 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; and defining "faith institution" as any Christian, Jewish, Isl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB153 | Engross
50% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB869 | 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] | 2025-02-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB2 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Rules and Executive Nominations 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] | 2025-02-26
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] | 2025-02-26
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1456 | Intro
25% | Requiring a tissue bank that facilitates autologous or directed blood donations to comply with a physician's order prescribing an autologous or directed blood donation; authorizing a tissue bank to charge a certain fee for facilitating an autologous ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
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 | SB706 | Intro
25% | 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, 2030; requiring the Secretary of Health, on or before No...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB321 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB352 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Appropriations 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 | 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
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1478 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish and maintain an online directory of each home health care provider; and requiring that the directory allow an individual to search the directory and identify a home health care provider based o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1324 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a hospital to sell the medical debt of patients if the debt is sold to a nonprofit organization for the purpose of canceling the debt; and requiring that a hospital's financial policy require the hospital to dismiss actions pending agains...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB213 | Engross
50% | Altering from December 31, 2025, to December 31, 2027, the date through which the Maternal and Child Health Population Health Improvement Fund may be used for expenses associated with maternal and child health population health improvements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB691 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB720 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to establish and maintain a clinical staffing committee for developing a clinical staffing plan for the hospital that establishes the appropriate number of clinicians needed to administer quality heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB741 | Intro
25% | Altering the circumstances under which a certificate of need for changing bed capacity in a health care facility is required; establishing the Workgroup on Forensic Mental Health Treatment; requiring the Workgroup to develop a certain form to be used...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB751 | 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] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB987 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to maintain a registry of artificial intelligence health software that may be distributed or operated in the State; prohibiting a person from distributing or operating artificial intelligence health softw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB981 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB735 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-04
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB765 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-04
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB871 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "community benefit" to include a community health worker workforce program which is intended to provide services to patients of a nonprofit hospital and to improve health outcomes; authorizing a nonprofit hospital and a com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB962 | Intro
25% | Specifying that the scope of the Maryland Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Registry and Referral System includes both private and State inpatient and outpatient mental health and substance use services; requiring the Maryland Department of He...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB405 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB576 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB828 | Intro
25% | Providing for an exception to the prohibition on a comprehensive care facility and an extended care facility using physical and chemical restraints on certain residents for sedatives, anti-anxiety medication, bed rails, and geri chairs ordered or aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB614 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a consumer reporting agency from including certain medical debt information in a consumer report; prohibiting a person from using medical debt information included in a consumer report when making a creditworthiness determination; prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB170 | Engross
50% | Altering from December 31, 2025, to December 31, 2027, the date through which the Maternal and Child Health Population Health Improvement Fund may be used for expenses associated with maternal and child health population health improvements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB387 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB696 | Intro
25% | Specifying that the scope of the Maryland Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Registry and Referral System includes both private and State inpatient and outpatient mental health and substance use services; requiring the Maryland Department of He...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB676 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to adopt regulations establishing minimum perinatal care standards meet or exceed the Maryland Perinatal System Standards for each hospital that provides obstetrical services; and requiring each hospital th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB784 | Intro
25% | Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that the Act is not intended to affect any l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB519 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB547 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB447 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB437 | Intro
25% | Altering the reimbursement rate at which health maintenance organizations are required to pay certain nonparticipating health care providers for services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB465 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
