Maryland Delegate Ken Kerr [D]

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MDHB676Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB728Enroll
75%
Requiring the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to establish and implement the Qualified Resident Enrollment Program to facilitate the enrollment of qualified residents in qualified plans; providing that the operation and administration of the Program...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1051Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1125Enroll
75%
Exempting an individual who practices as a certain nursing assistant for less than 4 months under federal regulations from the State's certification requirement; altering the designation of, and licensure requirements for, certified nursing assistant...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1158Enroll
75%
Altering certain reporting requirements for the Attorney General; and requiring the Attorney General to publish certain documents on the website of the Attorney General.
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1053Enroll
75%
Altering the qualifications for the executive director of the State Board of Nursing.
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1206Enroll
75%
Establishing the Maryland-Ireland Trade Commission in the Department of Commerce to study and make recommendations regarding bilateral trade relations and investment opportunities between Maryland and Ireland; and requiring the Commission by December...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1476Enroll
75%
Requiring the Governor to appoint the licensed audiologist members to the State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists from a list submitted by the Maryland Academy of Audiology...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB381Enroll
75%
Requiring an applicant for a license to practice optometry and certain applicants for the renewal of a license to submit to a criminal history records check obtained from the Criminal Justice Information Central Repository of the Department of Public...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB177Enroll
75%
Requiring a hospital, as soon as practicable before discharging an infant after the birth of the infant, to provide oral and written resources to the parent or legal guardian; requiring a hospital, before discharging an infant, to ask the parent or l...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB786Enroll
75%
Authorizing the State Board of Dental Examiners to waive certain education requirements for certain applicants for a limited license to practice dentistry who provide dental services for adults.
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB827Enroll
75%
Requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration to study professional employer organizations in the State to review certain regulations, histories, health plans, requirements, and regulatory structures in other states and to address any potential imp...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB938Enroll
75%
Requiring the department charged with oversight of a State-owned nursing home operated by a contractor, instead of the contractor, to provide notice of certain deficiencies and enforcement actions to the Governor and certain members of the General As...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB962Enroll
75%
Increasing a participation goal from a minimum of 15% to 20% for certain small businesses for certain procurement contracts; requiring the certification agency, in consultation with Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to ...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB969Enroll
75%
Requiring, if a victim's initial determination of death recorded on the victim's death certificate was amended or corrected to be undetermined or homicide, an assistant State's Attorney with knowledge of the case to meet with a person in interest on ...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1259Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1333Enroll
75%
Requiring the Maryland Commission on Health Equity to develop and monitor the statewide health equity plan required under a cooperative grant funding agreement with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation; requiring the Maryland Commission on...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1293Enroll
75%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop and implement a 3-year public education campaign on prostate, lung, and breast cancer prevention that targets communities disproportionately impacted by prostate, lung, and breast cancer on or be...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1168Enroll
75%
Establishing a regulatory system for reduction operators and reduction facilities; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the performance of alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction and the disposition of hydrolyzed or soil re...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1339Enroll
75%
Requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations that provide certain health insurance benefits under certain insurance policies or contracts to provide certain coverage for certain hearing aids for adults; aut...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB980Enroll
75%
Requiring the Secretary of Health to present decisions for the allocations of money from the Opioid Restitution Fund to the Opioid Restitution Fund Advisory Council; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to post on the Department's website cert...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB780Enroll
75%
Providing that competitive sealed proposals is the preferred procurement method for a contract for security services with an expected value that is greater than $1,000,000.
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB877Enroll
75%
Requiring the Comptroller to develop and maintain on the Board of Public Works' website a procurement transparency data dashboard; establishing a governance committee composed of the liaisons to the Board from the offices of the Governor, the Comptro...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1069Enroll
75%
Establishing the Workgroup for the Deaf, Deafblind, and Hard of Hearing to study and make recommendations regarding certain services, programs, advocacy, outreach efforts, and other items to improve the quality of life of individuals who are deaf, de...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB933Enroll
75%
Establishing a 9-8-8 fee to be paid by each subscriber to switched local exchange access service, commercial mobile radio service, or other 9-8-8-accessible service; establishing a prepaid wireless 9-8-8 fee to be paid on certain retail transactions;...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1497Enroll
75%
Altering the definition of "practice massage therapy" to include, subject to certain education and training requirements, instrument-assisted soft tissue manipulation techniques that enhance or imitate manual techniques; altering the circumstances un...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1337Enroll
75%
Requiring carriers to report additional data on the number of members entitled to health care benefits under a policy, plan, or certificate and the number of clean claims for reimbursement processed by a carrier to Maryland Health Commissioner.
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB411Enroll
75%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to report to certain committees of the General Assembly on current opioid overdose reversal drugs and, for any current opioid overdose reversal drug approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration, whe...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB822Enroll
75%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide Maryland Medical Assistance Program services for qualified applicants who are at least 16 years old and for existing Program recipients under the Employed Individuals with Disabilities Program in...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1217Engross
50%
Establishing direct-to-consumer alcoholic beverages permits authorizing the direct delivery of beer, wine, or liquor to a consumer; establishing the requirements an individual must meet to qualify for a direct-to-consumer alcoholic beverages delivery...
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2024-04-03
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB464Enroll
75%
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.
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2024-04-01
Returned Passed
MDHB292Enroll
75%
Authorizing the Board of Contract Appeals to award an interested party reasonable costs of filing and pursuing a protest, including attorney's fees, if an appeal is sustained and there is a violation of law or regulation; and authorizing the Board of...
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDHB277Enroll
75%
Authorizing, subject to certain provisions of law, a person that operates a tip jar in Frederick County to operate an electronic tip jar dispenser that does not connect to the Internet or to a server; altering certain obsolete language in provisions ...
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDHB961Engross
50%
Establishing the Commission on New Americans to study and periodically report on the contributions of new Americans and the availability of government services for new Americans; and requiring the Commission to submit to the Governor and the General ...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB894Engross
50%
Prohibiting an entity owned, operated, or controlled by the government of certain countries subject to an embargo under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations from participating in any procurement with the State, a local government in the Stat...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB1396Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to conduct a certain study on linkages between levels of care within the substance use disorder treatment and recovery continuum of care; and requiring the Department to report the results of the study and ...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1327Engross
50%
Establishing the Body Altering Aesthetics Advisory Committee within the Maryland Department of Health to study whether the current health occupations licensing and certification system adequately regulates the body altering aesthetics industry in the...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB180Engross
50%
Authorizing the State Board of Cosmetology to issue a limited license to provide eyelash extension services; altering the definition of "provide esthetic services" to include providing eyelash extension services; and requiring an applicant for a limi...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB282Engross
50%
Providing that, for a municipal corporation that does not maintain a police force, a technician employed by an agency may sign the statement alleging a violation recorded by a speed monitoring system that must be included in a citation.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB448Engross
50%
Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim January 13 as Korean American Day; and requiring the proclamation to urge certain organizations to observe Korean American Day properly.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1174Engross
50%
Establishing the Technology Advisory Commission to study and make recommendations on technology and science developments and use in the State; and requiring the Commission to submit a report on its activities and recommendations to the Governor and t...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB876Engross
50%
Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from excluding coverage for certain specialty drugs that are administered or dispensed by a provider that meets certain criteria; and requiring the rei...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1270Intro
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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2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1519Intro
25%
Authorizing the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland to amend certain policies and procedures governing procurements by the University System in a certain manner; and providing that the University System, Morgan State University, and...
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2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB673Engross
50%
Prohibiting the creation of a lien on owner-occupied residential property by contract or as a result of a breach of contract for the payment of medical debt.
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2024-03-08
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHJ1Intro
25%
Urging the Administration of President Joseph R. Biden to publish the federal Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and for the U.S. Congress to affirm, by joint resolution, the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amend...
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2024-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB34Engross
50%
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...
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2024-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB278Engross
50%
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to decrease the maximum speed limit by 5 miles per hour on urban State highways without an engineering and traffic investigation.
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2024-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB368Engross
50%
Altering certain maximum amounts of monetary relief the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights is authorized to award if the Commission finds that a respondent has engaged in a discriminatory act under provisions of law regarding public accommodations a...
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2024-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1123Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to adopt minimum cybersecurity standards for hospitals and take certain other actions related to the cybersecurity of hospitals, including supporting hospitals that do not meet the minimum cybersecurity s...
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2024-02-20
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
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