Maryland Delegate Lesley Lopez [D]

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MDHB419Engross
50%
Requiring certain businesses that use a point-of-sale system that automatically prompts a customer to leave a tip to disclose to whom the tip will be allocated.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB457Engross
50%
Requiring the Department of the Environment to establish a system to track the chain of custody of synthetic turf installed on sports and playing fields; requiring the custodian of a synthetic turf sports or playing field in the State to report chain...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB496Engross
50%
Requiring certain facts to be considered when determining whether a lack of consent exists for the purposes of certain sexual crimes; and altering the elements of second-degree rape to remove the requirement of use of force or threat of force.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB597Engross
50%
Altering the Law Enforcement Cadet Apprenticeship Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to be the Public Safety Apprenticeship Program; expanding the purpose and scope of the Program to promote careers with certain public safety agencies; requi...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB575Engross
50%
Altering the composition of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; altering certain duties, powers, and procedures for the Board to make awards to victims of crime; altering the powers and duties of certain employees; altering the amount and types...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB583Engross
50%
Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention in the Maryland Department of Health to reduce firearm violence, harm from firearm violence, and misuse of firearms in the State by partnering with federal, State, and local agencies and affecte...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB649Engross
50%
Altering the requirement that an employer disclose certain wage information to an applicant for employment; requiring an employer to disclose certain wage information in certain postings and to certain employees at certain times; requiring an employe...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB892Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from knowingly recruiting, harboring, transporting, or obtaining an individual for the purpose of appropriating the government benefits of an individual for the benefit of the person or another through deception, coercion, exploi...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1143Engross
50%
Establishing the Maryland Emergency Department Wait Time Reduction Commission in the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems to enhance the overall effectiveness and responsiveness of emergency medical services; requiring the Maryla...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1267Engross
50%
Authorizing researchers affiliated with institutions of higher education who are conducting academic or policy research to review a court record related to a petition for an extreme risk protective order.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB809Engross
50%
Providing that a member of a board, committee, commission, task force, or workgroup created by State law may be removed or suspended for misconduct, incompetence, neglect of duties, or other good cause by the individual or entity that appointed the m...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB959Engross
50%
Altering the continuing education requirement for certified dialysis technicians to require 3 hours of continuing approved by the Board.
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB829Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, subject to the limitations of its budget, to provide a virtual mental health first aid training program for service sector employees; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health, subject to the limitat...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1053Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to convene a stakeholder workgroup to study the qualifications for the executive director of the State Board of Nursing and submit a report on the workgroup's findings and recommendations to the Senate Fina...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB566Engross
50%
Prohibiting a State entity or a political subdivision of the State from assigning a Confederate name to real property owned by the State or political subdivision; and requiring certain real property to be assigned a new name on or before January 1, 2...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB962Engross
50%
Altering the Small Business Reserve Program to be the Small and Minority Business Reserve Program; requiring a unit of State government, to the extent practicable, to structure its procurement procedures to achieve at least 10% of the unit's total do...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB97Engross
50%
Requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, manufacturers of baby food to conduct certain testing on baby food for toxic heavy metals before packaging individual units of baby food for sale or distribution in the State; and requiring, beginning January 1, ...
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2024-03-18
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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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance 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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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB934Engross
50%
Establishing a licensing and regulatory system for the practice of limited licensed radiologic technology under the State Board of Physicians; and altering the composition of the Radiation Therapy, Radiography, Nuclear Medicine Technology, Radiology ...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB981Engross
50%
Requiring, on or before July 1, 2025, the Department of Disabilities to fully implement certain provisions of law requiring equal access to public services for individuals with limited English proficiency.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
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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2024-03-18
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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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance 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; and requiring the Maryland Commissio...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
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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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1171Engross
50%
Repealing the prohibition on the sale of certain contraceptives by means of a vending machine or other automatic device; and authorizing registered nurses to provide, without a prescription, nonprescription drugs and devices in a local health departm...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
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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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1168Engross
50%
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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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
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; requiring hospitals to connect patients who are administered or prescribed medicat...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
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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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB780Engross
50%
Requiring competitive sealed proposals to be used as the procurement method for a contract for private security services with an expected value that is greater than $100,000.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB877Engross
50%
Requiring the Comptroller to develop and maintain on the Comptroller's website a certain procurement dashboard; and establishing certain requirements for the dashboard; and requiring the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year th...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation 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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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance 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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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1396Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish by regulation standards relating to the discharge of patients from drug and alcohol treatment programs and certain referral services offered to patients by certain drug and alcohol treatment pr...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB933Engross
50%
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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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB1122Engross
50%
Requiring a person, before making a contractual agreement for the acquisition of a nursing home, to submit a request for acquisition to the Maryland Health Care Commission and provide certain notice to residents and staff of the nursing home; establi...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1056Engross
50%
Prohibiting a 340B manufacturer, wholesale drug distributor, or third-party logistics provider, or an agent or affiliate of a 340B manufacturer, wholesale drug distributor, or third-party logistics provider, from taking certain actions to limit or re...
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2024-03-18
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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2024-03-18
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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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB876Engross
50%
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;...
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2024-03-18
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 claims for reimbursement processed by a carrier to Maryland Health Commissioner; and requiri...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB932Engross
50%
Altering and establishing requirements and prohibitions related to health insurance utilization review; altering requirements related to internal grievance procedures and adverse decision procedures; altering certain reporting requirements on health ...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB68Engross
50%
Altering the membership of governing bodies of continuing care retirement communities by increasing the number of subscribers; altering the number of times select committees of providers without a governing body are required to meet with subscribers ...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB411Engross
50%
Requiring a licensed health care provider, when issuing a standing order for an opioid reversal drug, to allow an individual to choose any formulation of any opioid reversal drug approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB353Engross
50%
Defining the term "Health and Human Services Referral System" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the System to mean a certain coordinated system for health and human service resources that is accessible to State residents, rather...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB464Engross
50%
Altering the definition of "practice audiology" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the licensure and regulation of audiologists.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB598Engross
50%
Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to public accommodation, housing, employment, financial transactions, education, insurance, the provision of public utility services, and State personnel actions.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB806Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
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