| MD | HB94 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a local health department or community-based organization to appeal to the Secretary of Health or the Secretary's designee rather than to the Deputy Secretary for Public Health Services, an adverse decision of the Maryland Department of H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1352 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an institution of higher education from denying access or services to a student based on the student's diagnosis of sickle cell disease; requiring an institution of higher education to provide reasonable accommodations for students with s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Appropriations 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] | 2025-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1382 | Intro
25% | Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health to review and make recommendations on statutory a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary 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] | 2025-02-07
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] | 2025-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1366 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for an annual cervical smear or Pap test and for surveillance tests for ovarian cancer; and prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1385 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education, in consultation with certain individuals, to develop and implement a certain policy to promote parental involvement in students' education; establishing a complaint and appeals process for violations of a cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB217 | Intro
25% | Establishing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal demonstrate disablement for purposes of workers' compensation and are dee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB519 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Prostate Cancer Care Access Grant Program to provide grants to improve awareness of and access to prostate cancer care services for individuals in the State; establishing the Prostate Cancer Care Access Grant Program Fund as a specia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance 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 | SB748 | 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] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1179 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Montgomery County Board of Education to establish a policy limiting the use of a cellular phone by a student during instructional time except under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB173 | Intro
25% | Establishing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal demonstrate disablement for purposes of workers' compensation and are dee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB493 | Intro
25% | Altering the fiscal years during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill a certain appropriation to the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund; altering the funding source of the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund to include money fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB757 | Intro
25% | Altering the fee for a license to transfer oil in the State; requiring the Department of the Environment to transfer a certain amount of the license fee to the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program; a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB854 | Intro
25% | Altering the scope of practice of licensed direct-entry midwives; providing that the practice of direct-entry midwifery is independent and not does not require oversight by another health care practitioner; repealing the requirement that licensed dir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance 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 | SB948 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education, in consultation with certain individuals, to develop and implement a certain policy to promote parental involvement in students' education; and establishing a complaint and appeals process for violations of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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 | HB1115 | Intro
25% | Altering the fiscal years during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill a certain appropriation to the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund; altering the funding source of the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund to include money fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Appropriations 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 | HB1081 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from intentionally harassing, intimidating, or threatening another person while hiding or concealing their face; providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary 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 | SB702 | Intro
25% | Altering a certain definition of restrictive housing; limiting the amount of time that an individual may be placed in restrictive housing from approximately 22 hours to 17 hours in a 24-hour period; requiring all restrictive housing units to create t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB707 | Intro
25% | Repealing the 2-year time limitation on medical exemptions for enhanced tinted windows on certain vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB999 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to submit the data reported to the Department by an Opioid-Associated Disease Prevention and Outreach Program to the local health department for each county in which the Program operates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB709 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from intentionally harassing, intimidating, or threatening another person while hiding or concealing their face; providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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 | SB648 | Intro
25% | Repealing provisions relating to gubernatorial approval of a decision of the Maryland Parole Commission to grant medical parole to an incarcerated individual serving a sentence of life imprisonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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 | 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] | 2025-02-03
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB849 | Intro
25% | Altering the amount the Governor is authorized to include in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program from $500,000 to $3,000,000; and authorizing the Secretary of Health to use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB224 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a local health department or community-based organization to appeal to the Secretary of Health or the Secretary's designee rather than to the Deputy Secretary for Public Health Services, an adverse decision of the Maryland Department of H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB684 | 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB914 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain State employees are entitled to up to 4 hours of paid cancer screening leave in any 12-month period after obtaining approval from their appointing authorities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Appropriations 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] | 2025-01-31
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB491 | Intro
25% | Defining "honorable discharge" with respect to any State program of benefits, rights, or privileges applicable to a veteran to include certain discharges based on an incident or incidents relating to a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder or t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB490 | Intro
25% | Eliminating citizenship requirements for boards and commissions; and requiring that members of boards, committees, commissions, task forces, and workgroups reflect the full diversity of the State to the extent practicable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB523 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain State employees are entitled to up to 4 hours of paid cancer screening leave in any 12-month period after obtaining approval from their appointing authorities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB190 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Parole Commission to consider the age of incarcerated individuals when determining whether to grant parole; altering how the Commission evaluates a request for medical parole, including providing for a meeting between the inca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB311 | Intro
25% | Repealing provisions relating to gubernatorial approval of a decision of the Maryland Parole Commission to grant medical parole to an incarcerated individual serving a sentence of life imprisonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB630 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement, not later than the 2026-2027 school year, a policy limiting the use of a cellular phone by a student during the school day; and prohibiting the policy from restricting a student's use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB707 | Intro
25% | Requiring that an original and renewal application for a license, an identification card, or a moped operator's permit allow an applicant to choose to indicate on the document the applicant's nonapparent disability; requiring the Motor Vehicle Admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
