| MD | SB511 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain public senior higher education institutions to adopt a plan regarding pregnant and parenting students to include referral to on-campus or off-campus services to assist regarding the availability of or eligibility for certain governm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB646 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for insulin or certain other similar medication that is being used to treat an insured's or enrolle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB641 | 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 minors and adults to require cover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB773 | Intro
25% | Requiring administrators, carriers, and pharmacy benefits managers to include certain cost sharing amounts paid by or on behalf of an enrollee or a beneficiary when calculating the enrollee's or beneficiary's contribution to a cost sharing requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB760 | 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] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB757 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB876 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning on July 1, 2026, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide comprehensive coverage for the treatment of obesity; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide notice to Program recipients of the coverage requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB902 | Intro
25% | Repealing the June 30, 2025, termination date for certain provisions of law related to referrals to and reimbursement of specialists and nonphysician specialists who are not part of a carrier's provider panel; requiring that a certain referral proced...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB848 | 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] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB921 | 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] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB940 | Intro
25% | Updating references to federal law related to family planning services, grandfathered plans, explanation of benefits, summaries of benefits and coverage, medical loss ratios, catastrophic plans, annual limits for cost sharing, prescription drugs, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB956 | Intro
25% | Requiring a carrier to pay the same commission rate to a broker for the sale of certain Medicare supplement policies sold during a guaranteed issue period as a Medicare supplement policy sold during an open enrollment period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB961 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health services plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for single-gene and multigene pharmacogenomic testing in certain circumstances; a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB974 | 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] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
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
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB975 | 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] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1198 | Intro
25% | Altering the required location and timeline for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Correction to make certain services available to certain female incarcerated individuals;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1150 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from intentionally disseminating the personal identifying information or image of an individual under the age of 25 years without express permission and with the intent to intimidate or harm the individual; and establishing that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary 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] | 2025-02-06
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB393 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain carriers to post updated, accurate, and complete prescription drug formularies and changes to the formularies in a certain manner on a carrier's website; and requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health mai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB506 | Intro
25% | Requiring elementary schools, secondary schools, and county school systems to use certain funds received for services provided under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program or the Maryland Children's Health Insurance Program to provide additional pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB926 | 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] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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] | 2025-02-05
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1045 | Intro
25% | Updating references to federal law related to family planning services, grandfathered plans, explanation of benefits, summaries of benefits and coverage, medical loss ratios, catastrophic plans, annual limits for cost sharing, prescription drugs, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
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] | 2025-02-05
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1100 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in collaboration with the Commission on Health Equity, to develop a clear and easy-to-understand graphic data dashboard that includes age-adjusted health disparity data disaggregated by race, ethnicity, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
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] | 2025-02-05
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] | 2025-02-05
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] | 2025-02-05
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB689 | Intro
25% | Requiring elementary schools, secondary schools, and county school systems to use certain funds received for services provided under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program or the Maryland Children's Health Insurance Program to provide additional pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB771 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning in the 2027-2028 school year, each student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school in the State to submit a certain certificate of dental health to their school on a certain schedule; requiring the Maryland Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB845 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
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
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB529 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain carriers to post updated, accurate, and complete prescription drug formularies and changes to the formularies in a certain manner on a carrier's website; and requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health mai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB697 | Intro
25% | Requiring a health insurance carrier to submit quarterly reports to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner on certain information related to the carrier's use of artificial intelligence or automated decision-making systems; and altering the information ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB659 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain carriers from imposing a prior authorization, step therapy, or quantity limit requirement on eligible providers for health care services that are included in a two-sided incentive arrangement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB718 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission to monitor and assess the impact of potential and actual federal changes to specified health care programs and to provide recommendations for State and local action to protect ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB632 | Intro
25% | Altering the required location and timeline for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Correction to make certain services available to certain female incarcerated individuals;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB813 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB820 | Intro
25% | Requiring that certain carriers, pharmacy benefits managers, and private review agents ensure that artificial intelligence, algorithm, or other software tools are used in a certain manner when used for conducting utilization review.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB830 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for genetic testing for certain individuals who may have an increased risk of developing cancer and follow-up evidence-based cancer i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB869 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB859 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange, to promote access to health insurance for child care professionals; and authorizing a child care provider that receives a certain amount of fundi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB848 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain carriers, if the number of adverse decisions issued by carrier for a type of service has grown by more than 10% in the immediately preceding calendar year or 25% in the immediately preceding 3 calendar years, to provide certain info...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB939 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Commission for Women to establish the Maryland Collaborative to Advance Implementation of Coverage of Over-the-Counter Birth Control to study access to over-the-counter birth control; and requiring the Collaborative to submit a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1007 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB970 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for insulin or certain other similar medication that is being used to treat an insured's or enrolle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB936 | Intro
25% | Requiring that a carrier provide the written notice of cancellation or nonrenewal of a small group market health benefit plan by certified mail, return receipt requested, and by electronic means and include information regarding additional health ben...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB974 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Insurance Commissioner to enforce certain provisions of law related to preventive services consistent with federal rules and guidance in effect on December 31, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 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] | 2025-02-03
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
