| MD | SB144 | Pass | Adding an attorney 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 purpose of filing a claim regarding or appealing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 837 |
| MD | SB167 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 919 |
| MD | SB59 | Pass | Requiring a hospital to take certain actions relating to the care of infants as soon as practicable before the hospital discharges an infant after the birth of the infant, including providing oral and written educational resources to the parent or le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 879 |
| MD | SB13 | Pass | Altering the use of the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund to require that the Fund be used only for pediatric cancer research instead of only for pediatric cancer research, prevention, and treatment and to allow funds from the Fund to be used for admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 925 |
| MD | SB220 | Pass | Repealing the exceptions that allow the sale, distribution, or purchase of tobacco products, tobacco paraphernalia, and electronic smoking devices to or for certain individuals who are active duty members of the military; authorizing the Maryland Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 766 |
| MD | SB119 | Pass | Altering the definition of "legally protected health care" to include certain gender-affirming treatment, including medications and supplies, for the purposes of certain provisions of law that prohibit health occupations disciplinary actions and cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 863 |
| MD | SB244 | Pass | Prohibiting vaping in certain indoor areas and places of employment and certain mass transportation; requiring that certain signs be posted and maintained in a certain manner in certain indoor areas and certain public entrances; requiring the Marylan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 755 |
| MD | SB197 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Department of Health to reimburse a residential service agency for personal assistance services only if the personal assistance services are provided by an individual classified as an employee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 882 |
| MD | SB332 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 923 |
| MD | SB362 | Pass | Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering, from December 1, 2024, to January 15, 2027, the date by which the Accountability and Implementation Board has to conduct and s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 717 |
| MD | SB371 | Pass | Requiring residential service agencies to submit certain reports to the Maryland Department of Labor regarding wage rates for personal care aides by September 1 each year, beginning in 2025; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health to report t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 864 |
| MD | SB412 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 906 |
| MD | SB403 | Pass | Altering the definition of "accredited residential treatment center" for certain provisions of law governing hospitals and related institutions to include residential treatment centers accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 854 |
| MD | SB408 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to report, on or before December 1, 2024, December 1, 2025, and December 1, 2026, to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Health and Government Operations Committee on current opioid overdose reversal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 849 |
| MD | SB453 | Pass | Authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program; requiring the Maryland Department of Health, on or before July 1, 2026, to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program in a county that does not opt to establish a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 704 |
| MD | SB475 | Pass | Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention 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 age...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 707 |
| MD | SB578 | Pass | Authorizing the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, to include at least $500,000 in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 782 |
| MD | SB613 | Pass | Extending, from October 1, 2024, to July 1, 2026, the date by which individuals 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 manag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 786 |
| MD | SB614 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage related to prostheses beginning January 1, 2025; establishing that certain insure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 823 |
| MD | SB594 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to study the impact of requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide comprehensive coverage for the treatment of obesity; requiring the study to identify and compare obesity coverage in other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 778 |
| MD | SB723 | Pass | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, manufacturers of baby food to test a representative sample of each production aggregate of baby food for toxic heavy metals; requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, manufacturers of baby food to make certain inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 954 |
| MD | SB712 | Pass | 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, certain members of the General Assem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 860 |
| MD | SB751 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 851 |
| MD | SB790 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide Maryland Medical Assistance Program services for individuals under the Employed Individuals with Disabilities Program in accordance with certain requirements; prohibiting the Department from limi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 845 |
| MD | SB791 | Pass | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 848 |
| MD | SB881 | Pass | Altering the number of years after completion of a project funded in part by a grant of the Federally Qualified Health Centers Grant Program after which the State may recover funding under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 803 |
| MD | SB1092 | Pass | Increasing the motor vehicle registration emergency medical system surcharge to $40.00 per year for certain motor vehicles; altering certain provisions of law related to the Maryland Trauma Physician Services Fund, including provisions related to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 719 |
| MD | SB1000 | Pass | Requiring a person, at least 60 days before closing on an acquisition of a nursing home, to submit a request for acquisition to the Maryland Health Care Commission and provide notice to residents, resident representatives, and employees of the nursin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 816 |
| MD | SB1071 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 886 |
| MD | SB974 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 781 |
| MD | SB944 | Pass | Prohibiting the sale of natural membrane condoms, rather than all nonlatex condoms, through a vending machine or other automatic device; excluding a violation of the prohibition on the sale of natural membrane comdoms through a vending machine or oth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 932 |
| MD | SB952 | Pass | Establishing certain requirements for assisted living referrers, including requirements related to the maintenance of general liability insurance, criminal history records checks, and the provision of certain agreements and descriptions of services; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 839 |
| MD | SB975 | Pass | Establishing the Reproductive Health Care Clinic Security Grant Program in the Maryland Department of Health to assist reproductive health care clinics in the State with costs associated with security improvements and safety operational expenses; pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 768 |
| MD | SB938 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop, on or before December 1, 2026, a public education campaign on prostate, lung, and breast cancer prevention that targets communities disproportionately impacted by prostate, lung, and breast canc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 812 |
| MD | SB1059 | Pass | Establishing requirements on certain health departments and health care providers and facilities regarding maternal health, including requirements regarding prenatal risk assessment forms and postpartum infant and maternal referral forms; requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 798 |
| MD | SB991 | Pass | Establishing the Language Assistance Services Pilot Program in the Behavioral Health Administration to provide grants to local behavioral health authorities to reimburse behavioral health providers for language assistance services for children with l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 867 |
| MD | SB999 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 819 |
| MD | SB973 | Pass | Codifying a private hospital grant program for the purpose of making recommendations to the Governor for funding for capital projects at private hospitals in the State; requiring the Maryland Hospital Association to establish a certain review committ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 790 |
| MD | SB1056 | Pass | Prohibiting licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail from displaying cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices for sale unless located behind a counter; requiring certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 462 |
| MD | SB1068 | Pass | Stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Information Technology evaluate the feasibility of creating a 3-1-1 portal utilizing artificial intelligence and that the Department prioritize the creation of the portal if feasible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 450 |
| MD | SB1028 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 599 |
| MD | SB245 | Pass | Adding the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission to the governmental activities and units subject to the Maryland Program Evaluation Act; and extending the termination date to June 30, 2035, for certain provisions of law related to the Commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 386 |
| MD | SB267 | Pass | Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration and local health departments to access electronically from the Maryland Department of Health a copy of a death certificate and, on request, provide any person authorized by regulations with a certified or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 407 |
| MD | SB117 | Pass | Repealing a certain requirement related to the inclusion of a core condition in the system for newborn screening; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to implement testing for a core condition listed in the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 178 |
| MD | SB1106 | Pass | Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that this Act is not intended to affect any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 382 |
| MD | SB1103 | Pass | Altering the required contents of the written notice regarding outpatient facility fees; requiring the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, in consultation with certain entities, to study and make recommendations regarding hospital outpat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 142 |
| MD | SB224 | Pass | Requiring a person in charge of a cemetery to write on a burial-transit permit, the date of final disposition, the name and physical address of the cemetery, the burial, inurnment or scattering section and the lot and space number, or if the body or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 106 |
| MD | SB219 | Pass | Extending to December 31, 2030, the termination date of the Senior Prescription Drug Assistance Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 48 |
| MD | SB217 | Pass | Conforming provisions of State health insurance law with existing federal requirements, including by updating effective dates for federal regulations, clarifying federal consumer protection regulations resulting from changes to the federal No Surpris...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 118 |
| MD | SB212 | Pass | Altering the membership and terms of members of the Behavioral Health Advisory Council; altering the membership of the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access; requiring the Commission, in coordination with the Council, to make reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 42 |
