| MD | HB464 | Pass | Altering the definition of "practice audiology" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the licensure and regulation of audiologists to include certain procedures that do not require anesthesia. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-26 Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 1048 |
| MD | SB795 | Pass | Altering the definition of "practice audiology" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the licensure and regulation of audiologists to include certain procedures that do not require anesthesia and certain screenings, testing, and ima... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-26 Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 1049 |
| MD | HB119 | Pass | Altering certain HIV and syphilis reporting and testing requirements for hospitals and health care providers for pregnant women and newborns; providing that certain documents related to certain HIV and syphilis reports are not discoverable and are no... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 752 |
| MD | HB127 | Pass | Establishing the Nonoccupational Postexposure Prophylaxis (nPEP) Standing Order Program to authorize pharmacists to dispense nPEP under certain circumstances; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to adopt regulations necessary for the administ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 753 |
| MD | SB167 | Pass | Requiring that a physician assistant have a collaboration agreement, rather than a delegation agreement, in order to practice as a physician assistant; altering the scope of practice of a physician assistant; altering the education required for licen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 919 |
| MD | SB453 | Pass | Authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program; requiring the Maryland Department of Health, on or before July 1, 2026, to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program in a county that does not opt to establish a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 704 |
| MD | HB576 | Pass | Authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program by July 1, 2026; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program in a county that does not opt to establish the program by... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 703 |
| MD | HB647 | Pass | Establishing requirements and prohibitions for pet insurance policies that are issued to a resident of the State or are sold, solicited, negotiated, or offered in the State, including disclosure requirements and requirements and prohibitions related ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 740 |
| MD | HB676 | Pass | Altering certain provisions of law authorizing certain activity by manufacturers of investigational drugs, biological products, or devices under the Right to Try Act to apply to manufacturers of certain individualized investigational treatments; alte... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 960 |
| MD | SB578 | Pass | Authorizing the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, to include at least $500,000 in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 782 |
| MD | HB806 | Pass | Requiring that a physician assistant have a collaboration agreement, rather than a delegation agreement, in order to practice as a physician assistant; altering the scope of practice of a physician assistant; altering the education required for licen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 920 |
| MD | SB1059 | Pass | Establishing requirements on certain health departments and health care providers and facilities regarding maternal health, including requirements regarding prenatal risk assessment forms and postpartum infant and maternal referral forms; requiring t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 798 |
| MD | HB1051 | Pass | Establishing requirements on local health departments and certain health care providers and facilities regarding maternal health, including requirements regarding prenatal risk assessment forms and postpartum infant and maternal referral forms; requi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 799 |
| MD | HB1078 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide remote ultrasound procedures and remote fetal nonstress tests if the patient is in a residence or a location other than the office of the patient's provider and the provider follows the sam... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 889 |
| MD | HB1259 | Pass | Including image-guided breast biopsy in the definition of "supplemental breast examination" for the purpose of certain provisions of law requiring insurers, health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for supplement... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 868 |
| MD | HB1472 | Pass | Authorizing the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2025, to include at least $500,000 in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 783 |
| MD | HB567 | Pass | Establishing generally the manner in which a controller or a processor may process a consumer's personal data; authorizing a consumer to exercise certain rights in regards to the consumer's personal data; requiring a controller of personal data to es... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 454 |
| MD | SB541 | Pass | Regulating the manner in which a controller or a processor in possession of a consumer's personal data may process the consumer's personal data; authorizing a consumer to exercise certain rights in regards to the consumer's personal data; requiring a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 455 |
| MD | HB96 | Pass | Repealing a certain requirement related to the inclusion of a core condition in the system for newborn screening; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to implement testing for a core condition listed in the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 177 |
| MD | SB117 | Pass | Repealing a certain requirement related to the inclusion of a core condition in the system for newborn screening; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to implement testing for a core condition listed in the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 178 |
| MD | HB669 | Pass | Altering the frequencies in which industrial noise must be for an employer to be required to provide workers' compensation to a covered employee for hearing loss; altering the method used to determine the percentage of hearing loss deafness for purpo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 282 |
| MD | SB843 | Pass | Altering the frequencies in which industrial noise must be for an employer to be required to provide workers' compensation to a covered employee for hearing loss; altering the method used to determine the percentage of hearing loss deafness for purpo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 283 |
| MD | SB1044 | Pass | Altering the definition of "provide esthetic services" to include certain services and to provide that it does not include the diagnosis of illness, disease, or injury or performing ablation of the dermis or hypodermis. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 324 |
| MD | HB1047 | Pass | Providing that a party in a criminal trial involving an allegation of sexually assaultive behavior may not introduce information that physical evidence of sexually assaultive behavior was obtained using certain materials; providing that selling, offe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 262 |
| MD | HB1302 | Pass | Altering the definition of "provide esthetic services" to include certain services and to provide that it does not include the diagnosis of illness, disease, or injury or performing ablation of the dermis or hypodermis. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 325 |
| 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 | HB30 | Pass | Conforming provisions of State health insurance law with existing federal requirements, including updating effective dates for federal regulations, clarifying federal consumer protection regulations resulting from changes to the federal No Surprises ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 117 |
| 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 | SB949 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that a party in a criminal trial involving an allegation of sexually assaultive behavior may not introduce information that physical evidence of sexually assaultive behavior was obtained using certain materials; providing that selling, offe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 To House Rules and Executive Nominations 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 | 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 | HB1292 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the prescribing optometrist to include, in each prescription for glasses or contact lenses provided to a patient, the pupillary distance measurement at no additional cost to the patient. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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 | HB190 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a first responder who is diagnosed by a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist with post-traumatic stress disorder is presumed under certain circumstances to have an occupational disease that was suffered in the line of duty and is comp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 Referred to interim study by Economic Matters |
| 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 | HB949 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that certain State employees, on request and with approval from the appropriate appointing authority, are entitled to use up to 4 hours of cancer screening leave with pay in any 12-month period. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 To House Appropriations 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 | HB1096 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-14 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1376 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, managed care organizations, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for a special administrative... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a school health practitioner, health care practitioner, or certified school psychologist employed by or under a contract with a school-based health center, local school system, or local health department to provide school health services at... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB184 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Healthy Maryland Program as a public corporation and a unit of State government to provide comprehensive universal single-payer health care services for residents of the State by January 1, 2026; establishing requirements and prohibi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB965 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the eligibility requirements for certain screening mammograms and clinical breast examinations provided by the Breast Cancer Program to include women under the age of 45 years who are considered high risk for breast cancer; and requiring the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1040 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide limited behavioral health services to individuals under the age of 18 years regardless of whether the individual has a behavioral health diagnosis; requiring the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1145 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-09 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage for calcium score testing for individuals who have at least three of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1289 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "practice social work" to clarify the types of assessments that may be performed by a licensee, add biopsychosocial treatment as a treatment option, and clarify the scope of practice for individuals licensed as certified so... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB722 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a health care provider from knowingly engaging in or causing certain medical or surgical procedures to be performed on a minor without the consent of the parent, guardian, or custodian of the minor if performed for the purpose of attempti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB893 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to convene a workgroup to study and make recommendations on vision support treatments and services for students; requiring the workgroup to report i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB982 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-07 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |