| MD | SB1021 | 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] | 2024-02-06
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| MD | SB919 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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| MD | SB947 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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| MD | SB989 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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| MD | SB780 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB1016 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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| MD | SB786 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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| MD | SB834 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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| MD | SB990 | 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] | 2024-02-06
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| MD | SB876 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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| MD | SB888 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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| MD | SB1019 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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| MD | SB871 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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| MD | SB330 | Intro
25% | Requiring that an individual shall have received a master's degree rather than a baccalaureate degree to be licensed as a dietician-nutritionist.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| MD | SB626 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
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| MD | SB754 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
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| MD | SB93 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
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| MD | SB845 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
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| MD | SB789 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
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| MD | SB431 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
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| MD | SB104 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
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| MD | SB750 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
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| MD | SB844 | 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] | 2024-02-02
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| MD | SB506 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Physicians to adopt regulations authorizing a licensed physician to file an application for administrative expungement of a disciplinary record with the Board and establishing a process for the grant or denial of an admin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
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| MD | SB739 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Algorithmic Addiction Fund; providing that the Fund includes all revenue received by the State from a judgment against, or settlement with, technology conglomerates, technology companies, social media conglomerates, or social media c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
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| MD | SB716 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to reimburse physicians billing for maternal fetal medicine services at the rate set under the federal Medicare fee schedule.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
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| MD | SB569 | Intro
25% | Requiring, on or before October 1, 2025, the Department of Budget and Management to identify units of State government or functions of State government for which a transition to a 4-day workweek is feasible for 60% of State employees; requiring the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
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| MD | SB427 | 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] | 2024-01-31
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| MD | SB599 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a process to receive federal financial participation for the payment of county or municipal general funds appropriated to community providers that serve individuals with developmental disabilitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
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| MD | SB513 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an employer from discriminating against an individual because of the individual's use of cannabis products under certain circumstances; establishing that certain provisions prohibiting employment discrimination do not prohibit an employer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| MD | SB582 | Intro
25% | Requiring licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail to keep in stock and offer for sale at retail at least one kind of nicotine replacement therapy product and to post certain signs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| MD | SB526 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain pharmacy benefits managers from requiring a beneficiary to use a specific pharmacy or entity for a specialty drug if the drug is dispensed by a physician, used in the treatment of a certain condition, and meets other requirements;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB487 | Intro
25% | Altering the reimbursement rate at which health maintenance organizations are required to pay nonparticipating health care providers for services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| MD | SB124 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for annual behavioral health wellness visits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| MD | SB388 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Governor in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of at least $1,000,000 for the Prescription Drug Affordability Fund which provides funding for the Board; and requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| MD | SB137 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Registered Nurse Degree Apprenticeship Program Workgroup to study the feasibility of developing and implementing a registered nurse degree apprenticeship program in the State; and requiring the Workgroup, on or before April 1, 2025, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| MD | SB359 | Intro
25% | Entering into the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact; establishing criteria for participating states; authorizing an advanced practice registered nurse to practice in a party state under certain scope of practice rules; establishing the Inter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| MD | SB204 | Intro
25% | Entering into the Social Work Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing regulated social workers who hold interstate compact licenses to practice social work in member states; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; establishing th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| MD | SB520 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a retail business from charging a consumer a certain surcharge in excess of the amount required to reimburse the retail business for the cost of processing certain credit or debit transactions; and making a violation of this Act an unfair...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| MD | SB535 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for labor and delivery services without certain cost-sharing requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| MD | SB347 | Intro
25% | Authorizing designated medical personnel to administer medical cannabis to qualifying patients only if the cannabis is obtained through the qualifying patients caregiver and is administered in accordance with the certifying provider's written instruc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
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| MD | SB158 | Intro
25% | Repealing a provision of law that exempts the use of a facility by a cannabis licensee from certain county or municipal zoning requirements if the facility is used by a grower, processor, or dispensary that held a certain Stage One Preapproval for a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
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| MD | SB54 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law regarding the prohibition on certain departments of State government from denying an occupational license or certificate to an applicant solely on the basis of the criminal history of the applicant by prohibiting a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
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| MD | SB30 | Intro
25% | Establishing the High Impact Development Project Program within the Department of Commerce to provide financial assistance to industrial development agencies or enterprises undertaking high impact, placemaking projects that will support manufacturing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
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| MD | SB172 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an insurer, with respect to private passenger motor vehicle insurance, from increasing a premium based on the claims history of an insured where two or fewer of the claims within the immediately preceding 3-year period were for accidents ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
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| MD | SB24 | Intro
25% | Requiring, before the completion of certain retail sales transactions, that merchants provide to consumers notice of the merchants' refund and exchange policies or policies of no refunds or exchanges by conspicuously displaying a certain notice; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
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| MD | SB142 | 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] | 2024-01-15
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| MD | SB213 | Intro
25% | Making technical and clarifying changes to the administration of certain food supplement benefits for children; and increasing the amount the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill for certain food supplement benefits for children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
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| MD | SB201 | Intro
25% | Requiring, when a child is born at a health care facility, the attending physician to offer to the presumed father of the child the option to take a paternity test; requiring that the offer to take a paternity test be made orally and in writing and b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
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| MD | SB233 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting employers from taking or threatening to take adverse action against an employee because the employee takes certain actions regarding rights and responsibilities, complaints, investigations, proceedings, or hearings under certain provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
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