| MD | HB962 | Engross 50% | 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 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29 Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| MD | HB1162 | Engross 50% | Establishing the 9-1-1 Specialist Recruitment and Retention Workgroup to identify and examine recruitment and retention challenges that affect 9-1-1 specialists in the State; and requiring the Workgroup to submit an interim report of its findings and... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29 Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | HB780 | Engross 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. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29 Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| MD | HB877 | Engross 50% | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29 Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| MD | HB933 | Engross 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;... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29 Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| MD | HB153 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB882 | Engross 50% | Establishing that certain provisions governing signage at retail service stations supersede inconsistent local law; altering a signage requirement for retail service stations relating to the price of regular gasoline so that the signage prominently d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB874 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB887 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to contract with an independent consultant to conduct a certain study of the Health Services Cost Review Commission, the Maryland Health Care Commission, the Maryland Insurance Administration, and the Maryl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB342 | Enroll 75% | Providing that certain provisions requiring prompt payments for State procurement contracts apply to payments owed by a contractor to a supplier. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Returned Passed |
| MD | HB292 | Enroll 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Returned Passed |
| MD | HB381 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB418 | Enroll 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 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Returned Passed |
| MD | HB728 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB177 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB786 | Engross 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. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB84 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB1002 | Enroll 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 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Returned Passed |
| MD | HB827 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB938 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB1103 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB548 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB76 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB934 | Engross 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 $... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB1074 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB1293 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB1125 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB1155 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB1339 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB1026 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB1051 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB464 | Engross 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. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB1416 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Maryland Stadium Authority to create a community development plan to develop the Pimlico site property that does not include the racing facility site, conduct a certain economic market study, and hold a certain design competition for th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB496 | Engross 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. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26 [Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1358 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources and Baltimore City to convene focus group meetings on the establishment of the Gwynns Falls State Park with community members and stakeholders that reside or operate in the vicinity of the proposed State ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 [Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB566 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Commission on State and Local Government Real Property Bearing Confederate Names to develop and implement a framework to identify real property owned by the State or a political subdivision that bears a Confederate name; and requirin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB981 | Engross 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. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB999 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB961 | Engross 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 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB894 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB850 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB128 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting a person from intentionally threatening to physically harm a witness or retaliating against a witness or intentionally soliciting another to threaten a witness or retaliate against a witness to affect testimony before a legislative body i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB763 | Engross 50% | Altering the membership of the Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention; and terminating the Commission after June 30, 2027. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB892 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1408 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a seller and buyer of certain residential property to rescind a contract of sale without penalty at any time before closing if a certain seller does not provide a certain notice; establishing that a buyer is entitled to a refund of any de... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1333 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB333 | Engross 50% | Requiring the State Board of Elections to maintain a portal on the State Board's website that the public may use to report election disinformation; requiring the State Board to conduct a periodic review of material submitted by the public through the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1143 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1206 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1304 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Finance Committee |