| 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 | 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] | 2025-01-30
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB849 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Commission to Study the Dental Hygienist Shortage; providing that the purpose of the Commission is to support the State's efforts to improve the oral health of Marylanders by ensuring the stability and sustainability of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB867 | Intro
25% | Repealing the Naturopathic Doctors Formulary Council within the Board of Physicians; altering the drugs that may be administered by a naturopathic doctor; and altering the methods by which a naturopathic doctor may administer medication.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
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] | 2025-01-30
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB681 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "health care provider" to include an employee, agent, or contractor of a hospital who is licensed, certified, registered, or otherwise authorized to render health care services in Maryland in provisions relating to health c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB572 | Intro
25% | Requiring a licensed health care provider, when issuing a standing order for an opioid overdose reversal drug, to allow an individual to choose any formulation of any opioid overdose reversal drug approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB565 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Pharmacy to send renewal notices to licensees, permit holders, and registrants by electronic means, rather than by first-class mail, unless the licensee, permit holder, or registrant requests to receive the renewal notice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB602 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Nursing to hold discussions with Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to pursue reciprocity agreements for advanced practice nursing licensure and specialty certification; and requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB696 | 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] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB664 | Intro
25% | Clarifying that the State Board of Nursing may deny a license or grant a license, including a license subject to a reprimand, probation, or suspension, if an applicant for a license to practice direct-entry midwifery or a licensed direct-entry midwif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB723 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Dental Examiners to issue a license or certification to certain applicants licensed or certified by another state within 15 business days after receiving the completed application; and requiring that a dental radiation te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB779 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the establishment of a medication review committee within the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services that convenes to determine whether to approve the administration of psychotropic medication to a certain incarcerated indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB776 | Intro
25% | Repealing obsolete and redundant language in, clarifying language in, and making language consistent across certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Physicians and the regulation of physicians, physician assistants, and allied health pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB783 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB838 | 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] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 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] | 2025-01-29
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB658 | Intro
25% | Altering the noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in employment contracts or similar documents that are null and void as being against public policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Finance 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] | 2025-01-29
To House Health and Government Operations 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] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB65 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim May 8 as Community Health Worker Appreciation Day; and requiring the proclamation to urge educational and cultural organizations to observe community health workers with informative programs and activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Mar 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB711 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Office of Cemetery Oversight, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health, the Maryland Department of Labor, and the Department of the Environment, to conduct a study of the environmental and public health impacts of deathcar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB21 | Intro
25% | Entering into the Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact; authorizing a dentist or dental hygienist to practice in a participating state under certain scope of practice rules; establishing a Commission to oversee the Compact and its duties and powers; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB233 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "dispenser" for purposes of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to include certain licensed veterinarians when dispensing controlled substances in the usual course of providing professional services; and providing that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB458 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
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
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance 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
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB492 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Commission to Study the Dental Hygienist Shortage; providing that the purpose of the Commission is to support the State's efforts to improve the oral health of Marylanders by ensuring the stability and sustainability of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB573 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the State Board of Dental Examiners to approve a certain course of study for expanded function dental assistant certification; requiring that a course of study for initial dental assistant certification include an option for an online cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB486 | 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; requiring the Departments, by December 1, 2027, and each December 1 thereafter, to j...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB539 | Intro
25% | Requiring health care providers who are authorized to prescribe to issue two prescriptions of each drug prescribed for a child if a parent of the child presents the prescriber with a court-ordered or court-approved shared custody or visitation schedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB538 | Intro
25% | Entering into the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact; authorizing a dentist or dental hygienist to practice in a member state; establishing the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Compact Licensure Commission to oversee the Compa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB745 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists to issue a license to practice behavior analysis to qualified applicants within 10 days of receiving the completed application; and requiring the State Board to provide a certain e-m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB607 | Intro
25% | Excluding transportation protection agreements from the definition of "preneed burial contract" and "pre-need contract" under the Maryland Cemetery Act and the Maryland Morticians and Funeral Directors Act, respectively; and providing that transporta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB671 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Office of Cemetery Oversight, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health, the Maryland Department of Labor, and the Department of the Environment, to conduct a study of the environmental and public health impacts of deathcar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB679 | Intro
25% | Requiring a nursing home to expend at least 75% of its total nursing and residential care revenue for direct care wages and benefits; and requiring nursing homes by September 1 each year, beginning in 2026, to submit a cost report with documentation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-26
To Senate Finance 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] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations 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] | 2025-01-24
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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] | 2025-01-24
To House Ways and Means 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] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB456 | Intro
25% | Altering the eligibility criteria for Higher Education Loan Assistance Grants under the Maryland Dent-Care Program to include part-time employment; and requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration to submit a report, by December 1, 2025, to certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB420 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB379 | Intro
25% | Repealing the examination requirements for bachelor and master social worker licenses; and altering the number of consumer members on the State Board of Social Work Examiners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB367 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB371 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Pharmacy to send renewal notices to licensees, permit holders, and registrants by electronic means, rather than by first-class mail, unless the licensee, permit holder, or registrant requests to receive the renewal notice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB423 | Intro
25% | Repealing obsolete and redundant language in, clarifying language in, and making language consistent across certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Physicians and the regulation of physicians, physician assistants, and allied health pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB407 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Nursing to hold discussions with Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to pursue reciprocity agreements for advanced practice nursing licensure and specialty certification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB534 | Intro
25% | Entering into the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact; authorizing a dentist or dental hygienist to practice in a member state; establishing the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Compact Licensure Commission to oversee the Compa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB536 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee |
