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MDSB1117Intro
25%
Requiring governmental units that employ firefighters to compute overtime pay in a certain manner; requiring counties and municipalities to provide certain payroll information to each firefighter employed by the county or municipality; and authorizin...
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2024-03-11
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MDSB863Intro
25%
Authorizing the Attorney General to seek injunctive relief on behalf of the State on the basis of an imminent or ongoing violation of certain rights of residents of certain health care facilities; authorizing the Attorney General to request a court t...
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2024-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB994Intro
25%
Establishing certain requirements on food service establishments, hospitality establishments, and retail establishments regarding work schedules for employees, including requirements related to the provision of work schedules to employees, notificati...
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2024-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB338Intro
25%
Authorizing the holder of a Class C (veterans' organization or club) license in Somerset County to purchase alcoholic beverages from a retail dealer.
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2024-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB186Intro
25%
Establishing a Class B-CL (cigar lounge) beer, wine, and liquor license in Prince George's County; excluding the license from certain distance restrictions; excluding a certain business that operates in the county under the license from the requireme...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB735Intro
25%
Establishing a Class L beer, wine, and liquor license in Harford County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Harford County to issue the license to a holder of a manufacturer's license; authorizing the license holder to hold another li...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB583Intro
25%
Applying certain prevailing wage requirements for contractors and subcontractors working on certain projects involving, and traffic control activities related to, any underground gas or electric infrastructure of an investor-owned gas company, electr...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1060Intro
25%
Establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the operation of railroads in the State, including provisions related to the size of the crew, the blocking of highway grade crossings, wayside detectors, and investigations by railroad labor unio...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB815Intro
25%
Authorizing a county or an Equitable Community Investment Council to designate an area that meets certain criteria as a Community Reinvestment Impact District, subject to certain requirements; and requiring that a district shall receive at least 20% ...
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2024-02-09
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MDSB813Intro
25%
Requiring, on or before January 1, 2025, certain health care facilities to implement a program to provide individuals admitted to the health care facility reasonable access to a telephone.
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2024-02-09
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MDSB820Intro
25%
Requiring a hospital to provide certain oral and written instructions on safe sleep environments for infants to the parent or legal guardian of an infant before the hospital discharges an infant into the care of the parent or legal guardian; requirin...
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2024-02-09
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MDSB911Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from offering for sale in the State a gene structure- or function-modifying product unless the product is labeled in a prominent and conspicuous manner with the words "Gene structure- or function-modifying product" and all potent...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB823Intro
25%
Providing collective bargaining rights to certain faculty, part-time faculty, post doctoral associates, and graduate assistants at certain State institutions of higher education; establishing separate collective bargaining units for the faculty, part...
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2024-02-09
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MDSB1020Intro
25%
Requiring each hospital licensed in the State to establish and maintain a clinical staffing committee and to implement a clinical staffing plan; requiring the Health Services Cost Review Commission to conduct investigations regarding alleged violatio...
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2024-02-09
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MDSB995Intro
25%
Prohibiting an individual from performing or attempting to perform a laser hair removal procedure unless the indivdiual is a certain health professional; establishing certain requirements for the performance of laser hair removal procedures and laser...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB987Intro
25%
Requiring a tobacco product manufacturer and a certain electronic smoking devices manufacturer to pay a certain certification fee; authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission and the Attorney General to take ce...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB997Intro
25%
Altering the date, to January 1, 2028, by which the Secretary of Health is required to establish a process by which death certificates can be filed electronically and requiring that the process allow all vital records to be filed electronically; and ...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1018Intro
25%
Requiring, beginning in a certain year, a certain tobacco product manufacturer to pay a certain equity fee instead of depositing certain funds in a certain escrow account; authorizing a certain tobacco product manufacturer to contest the amount of th...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB647Intro
25%
Establishing the Abandoned Cemeteries Fund to provide for the care, preservation, maintenance, and restoration of abandoned cemeteries in the State; establishing a certain income tax checkoff for voluntary contributions to the Abandoned Cemeteries Fu...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB957Intro
25%
Prohibiting, subject to a certain exception, an employer from using an automated employment decision tool to make certain employment decisions; and requiring an employer, under certain circumstances, to notify an applicant for employment of the emplo...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1069Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB988Intro
25%
Establishing the Self-Directed Mental Health Services Pilot Program in the Maryland Department of Health to facilitate access to clinically appropriate, person-centered, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed self-directed services in the most in...
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2024-02-06
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MDSB1040Intro
25%
Requiring a person who makes an automatic renewal offer to consumers to allow a consumer to cancel the automatic renewal in a certain manner; requiring automatic renewal offers to be displayed in a certain manner and contain certain information; and ...
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2024-02-06
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MDSB862Intro
25%
Prohibiting an individual from committing or threatening certain actions, including certain actions related to sex trafficking, with the intent of coercing a pregnant woman to have an abortion; providing that a pregnant minor is considered an emancip...
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2024-02-06
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MDSB998Intro
25%
Requiring a certain provider of earned wage access services to register with the Commissioner of Financial Regulation; requiring a provider to file a certain surety bond or an irrevocable letter of credit with the Commissioner in a certain manner; re...
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2024-02-06
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MDSB930Intro
25%
Exempting consumer wire transaction from certain provisions of the Maryland Uniform Commercial Code; limiting liability for damages resulting from consumer wire transfers; defining sufficient notice; requiring investigations; requiring decisions and ...
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2024-02-06
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MDSB931Intro
25%
Authorizing certain licensed social workers to register as a rehabilitation practitioner; and authorizing a licensed certified social worker-clinical to provide evaluation services for workers' compensation claims related to permanent impairments inv...
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2024-02-06
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MDSB1021Intro
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...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB919Intro
25%
Extending, for 60 days, the period of time during which the Workers' Compensation Commission may modify an award related to a workers' compensation claim if an appeal is filed during the original 5-year period during which the Commission maintains au...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB947Intro
25%
Establishing the Abortion Care Access Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care services for individuals in the State; establishing the Abortion Care Access Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to provide grants u...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB989Intro
25%
Requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to limit the amount a covered individual is required to pay in copayments, coinsurance, and deductibles for a covered prescription epinephrine injector to not mo...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB780Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from selling an Internet-connected device that is intended for minors unless the device is sold with a certain filter, certain privacy settings, and other features; making a violation of the prohibition an unfair, abusive, or dec...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1016Intro
25%
Requiring health care providers who are authorized to prescribe to double the amount of each drug prescribed for a child if a parent of the child presents the prescriber with a court order of joint legal custody with a right of medical decision makin...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB786Intro
25%
Establishing the Task Force on Access to Pharmacy Services and the Impact of Telepharmacy in Maryland to analyze access to pharmacy services and identify barriers to pharmacy services and telepharmacy; and requiring the Task Force to submit an interi...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB834Intro
25%
Establishing the Scam Awareness Pilot Program in the Division of Consumer Protection of the Office of the Attorney General to identify common scamming methods used against individuals in the State and to develop and disseminate certain consumer safet...
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2024-02-06
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MDSB990Intro
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...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB876Intro
25%
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; and requiring...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB888Intro
25%
Authorizing a local behavioral health authority to hire its own inspectors to monitor behavioral health program quality and safety; requiring a local behavioral health authority to track complaints against behavioral health programs and health care p...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1019Intro
25%
Requiring that the calculation of an enrollee's contribution to a cost sharing requirement for a prescription drug be based on the list price of the drug reduced by at least 85% of the total amount of rebates received or expected to be received by th...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB871Intro
25%
Establishing that the disqualification from receiving unemployment insurance benefits due to a stoppage of work does not apply for any week beginning after the first 14 days of an individual's unemployment resulting from the stoppage of work that exi...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB330Intro
25%
Requiring that an individual shall have received a master's degree rather than a baccalaureate degree to be licensed as a dietician-nutritionist.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB626Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "purchaser" for the purpose of certain provisions of State insurance law governing pharmacy benefits managers to exclude certain nonprofit health maintenance organizations; and repealing certain provisions that restrict app...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB754Intro
25%
Prohibiting certain health insurance entities from taking certain actions with respect to the dispensing of clinician-administered drugs and related services; and authorizing certain health insurance entities to allow the use of a certain pharmacy or...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB93Intro
25%
Requiring that certain criteria and standards used by private review agents for health insurance utilization review relating to mental health and substance use disorder benefits meet certain requirements; requiring a private review agent to take cert...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB845Intro
25%
Requiring the employer at the employment where the accidental personal injury or occupational disease occurred or its insurer to pay a temporarily partially disabled covered employee who holds concurrent employment compensation that equals two-thirds...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB789Intro
25%
Requiring the Uninsured Employers' Fund to begin paying compensation for a workers' compensation claim within 15 days after the later of the date an award is made or payment of an award is due; applying certain provisions of law regarding the failure...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB431Intro
25%
Establishing that governmental essential workers are presumed to have an occupational disease that is compensable under workers' compensation law after being diagnosed with long COVID under certain circumstances; and applying the Act retroactively.
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2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB104Intro
25%
Repealing and establishing the methodology used to calculate the weekly benefit amount; altering the taxable wage base used to determine employer contributions to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund, the dependent allowance, and the amount of earne...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB750Intro
25%
Altering the exception to the exclusivity of an employer's liability under workers' compensation law for covered employees who are injured or killed as the result of the deliberate intent of the employer to injure or kill the covered employee; deemin...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB844Intro
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...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee
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