Maryland Delegate Ken Kerr [D] | Bills

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MDHB84Engross
50%
Requiring, on or before January 1, 2025, each hospital and urgent care center in the State to implement an evidence-based protocol for the early recognition and treatment of a patient with sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock that is based on gener...
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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Finance
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
MDHB408Engross
50%
Altering the membership of a county's mental health advisory committee by including an individual with experience with mental health care for veterans or individuals serving in the military on the list of groups from which individuals may be appointe...
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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB548Engross
50%
Establishing the Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances to study existing laws, scientific data, and practices related to the use of natural psychedelic substances; requiring the Task Force to make recommendations regarding a...
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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB728Engross
50%
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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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB1051Engross
50%
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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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB1125Engross
50%
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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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB153Engross
50%
Adding an attorney who provides documentation that the attorney is representing a patient to the list of individuals to whom a health care provider is prohibited from charging a fee for providing copies of a medical record that will be used for the p...
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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB342Enroll
75%
Providing that certain provisions requiring prompt payments for State procurement contracts apply to payments owed by a contractor to a supplier.
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDHB381Engross
50%
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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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB418Enroll
75%
Altering the composition of the Maryland Efficient Grant Application Council by removing the Director of the Governor's Grants Office or the Director's designee and adding the Comptroller or the Comptroller's designee; requiring the Council to study ...
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDHB177Engross
50%
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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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB786Engross
50%
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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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB1002Enroll
75%
Authorizing the Office of the Attorney General, a Deputy Attorney General, or an Assistant Attorney General to issue a subpoena to a person to produce certain materials, answer written interrogatories, and give certain testimony in furtherance of an ...
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDHB827Engross
50%
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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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB874Engross
50%
Extending, from October 1, 2024, to July 1, 2026, the date by which an individual must be licensed by the State Board of Long-Term Care Administrators before practicing as an assisted living manager in the State; altering the requirements for the man...
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2024-03-28
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
MDHB938Engross
50%
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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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB1103Engross
50%
Establishing the Miriam Kelty Aging and Senior Social Connection Hub and Spoke Pilot Program in the Maryland Department of Aging; establishing that the purpose and the goals of the Pilot Program are to support the "village" concept of local, voluntee...
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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB76Engross
50%
Authorizing a pharmacist to order and administer certain vaccinations to individuals in certain age groups if certain requirements are met; altering the vaccinations that a pharmacist can administer to individuals at least 3 years old; and altering t...
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2024-03-28
Second Reading Passed
MDHB934Engross
50%
Altering the circumstances under which individuals without a license to practice medicine may perform X-ray duties; authorizing the State Board of Physicians to impose a civil penalty of up to $5,000 for each violation on the physician's office and $...
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2024-03-28
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
MDHB1074Engross
50%
Altering certain reporting requirements on health insurance carriers relating to compliance with the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act; altering requirements for certain analyses of nonquantitative treatment limitations required o...
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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB1293Engross
50%
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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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB1155Engross
50%
Requiring hospitals to establish and maintain certain protocols and capacity related to the treatment of patients who are being treated for an opioid-related overdose or opioid-related emergency medical condition; requiring hospitals to make a referr...
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2024-03-28
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
MDHB1339Engross
50%
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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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB1026Engross
50%
Adding the Space Force to certain provisions of law related to the armed forces; authorizing military spouses and residents of the State who are members of the National Guard of another state or a reserve component of the armed forces to terminate ce...
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2024-03-28
Third Reading Passed (46-0)
MDHB464Engross
50%
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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2024-03-28
Second Reading Passed
MDHB1110Engross
50%
Authorizing the City of Frederick to participate in the Maryland Intrastate Emergency Management Assistance Compact.
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2024-03-22
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB981Engross
50%
Requiring, on or before July 1, 2025, the principal departments of the Executive Branch to fully implement certain provisions of law requiring equal access to public services for individuals with limited English proficiency.
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2024-03-22
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB999Engross
50%
Establishing the Workgroup on Establishing a Science and Technology Best Practices and Innovation Network to identify and analyze options for establishing and maintaining an open access science, technology, and innovation network or hub of citizen sc...
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2024-03-22
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
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
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
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
MDHB850Engross
50%
Requiring each procurement unit to establish a price preference for small businesses; designating the Board of Public Works as the regulatory authority for the Small Business Preference Program; and specifying the manner in which a unit may achieve t...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB780Engross
50%
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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2024-03-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB1333Engross
50%
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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2024-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1143Engross
50%
Establishing the Maryland Emergency Department Wait Time Reduction Commission to address factors throughout the health care system that contribute to increased emergency department wait times; authorizing the Commission to request data from certain e...
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2024-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1206Engross
50%
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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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1304Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a process for providing information about the availability of the State's earned income tax credits to individuals enrolled or participating in certain programs or services, or potential enrollee...
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2024-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB969Engross
50%
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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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1259Engross
50%
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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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1388Engross
50%
Applying to certain veterinary and health care professionals certain provisions of law stating that certain noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in certain employment contracts are null and void as being against the public policy of the Sta...
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2024-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance 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
MDHB1497Engross
50%
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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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1337Engross
50%
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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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB822Engross
50%
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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2024-03-19
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
MDHB404Engross
50%
Requiring a law enforcement agency or fire, rescue, or emergency medical services entity that receives a certain request for a wellness check of an individual to conduct a wellness check or submit a request for the relevant law enforcement agency or ...
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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
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