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MDHB1100Intro
25%
Requiring child advocacy centers to report annually to the Behavioral Health Administration certain information related to behavioral health care services provided at the center; requiring the Administration to include in its annual report certain in...
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2024-02-12
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1456Intro
25%
Requiring that an application for a license, an identification card, or a moped operator's permit allow an applicant to indicate the applicant's nonapparent disability; and requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to ensure that the license, identi...
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2024-02-12
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB118Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Parole Commission to consider the age of incarcerated individuals when determining whether to grant parole; altering how the Commission evaluates a request for medical parole; requiring the Commission to develop procedures fo...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB185Intro
25%
Repealing provisions relating to gubernatorial approval of a decision of the Maryland Parole Commission to grant medical parole to an inmate serving a sentence of life imprisonment.
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB184Intro
25%
Establishing the Healthy Maryland Program as a public corporation and a unit of State government to provide comprehensive universal single-payer health care services for residents of the State by January 1, 2026; establishing requirements and prohibi...
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB804Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "medical service" for the purpose of providing an exemption to the certificate of need requirement by removing psychiatry and any subcategory of psychiatry; and providing that a certificate of need is not required to establ...
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1085Intro
25%
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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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1040Intro
25%
Requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide limited behavioral health services to individuals under the age of 18 years regardless of whether the individual has a behavioral health diagnosis; requiring the...
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1289Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "practice social work" to clarify the types of assessments that may be performed by a licensee, add biopsychosocial treatment as a treatment option, and clarify the scope of practice for individuals licensed as certified so...
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB756Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety, the State Department of Education, and the Interagency Commission on School Construction by July 1, 2025, and every 2 years thereafter, to review and promulgate guidelines on the state of physical secu...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB917Intro
25%
Altering the duties of behavioral health services coordinators and the Maryland Consortium on Coordinated Community Supports regarding duties related to implementing Restorative Practices Schools throughout the State; requiring the State Department o...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB865Intro
25%
Expanding, renaming, and altering certain provisions relating to a certain truancy reduction program in certain juvenile courts; authorizing a county or circuit administrative judge to establish a certain Truancy Reduction and School Reengagement Pro...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB1085Intro
25%
Altering a reporting requirement for correctional units relating to restrictive housing; requiring hearing officers and personnel involved with the supervision and care of individuals placed in restrictive housing to undergo certain training; and est...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB1096Intro
25%
Requiring that an application for a license, an identification card, or a moped operator's permit allow an applicant to indicate the applicant's nonapparent disability; and requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to ensure that the license, identi...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1087Intro
25%
Prohibiting online gambling while on campus at an institution of higher education in the State; requiring by August 1, 2024, each institution of higher education to establish a geofence around the perimeter of the campus that prevents access to onlin...
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2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB554Intro
25%
Requiring the court, after a verdict of not criminally responsible for murder in the first degree to commit a defendant to a designated health care facility for life; and requiring a court, after a verdict of not criminally responsible for murder in ...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB855Intro
25%
Limiting the circumstances under which an incarcerated minor may be involuntarily placed in restrictive housing; prohibiting the placement of a minor in restrictive housing for more than 6 hours; and authorizing a correctional facility to place a min...
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB876Intro
25%
Requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide limited behavioral health services to individuals under the age of 18 years regardless of whether the individual has a behavioral health diagnosis; and requiring...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB888Intro
25%
Authorizing a local behavioral health authority to hire its own inspectors to monitor behavioral health program quality and safety; requiring a local behavioral health authority to track complaints against behavioral health programs and health care p...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB931Intro
25%
Authorizing certain licensed social workers to register as a rehabilitation practitioner; and authorizing a licensed certified social worker-clinical to provide evaluation services for workers' compensation claims related to permanent impairments inv...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1029Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Health to conduct certain prevalence studies concerning problem and pathological mobile gambling; requiring the initial prevalence study to be completed by July 1, 2029; and altering the distribution of certain State lotte...
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2024-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB1069Intro
25%
Providing that a first responder who is diagnosed by a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist with post-traumatic stress disorder is presumed under certain circumstances to have an occupational disease that was suffered in the line of duty and is comp...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB988Intro
25%
Establishing the Self-Directed Mental Health Services Pilot Program in the Maryland Department of Health to facilitate access to clinically appropriate, person-centered, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed self-directed services in the most in...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB990Intro
25%
Prohibiting the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations from applying a prior authorization requirement, step therapy protocol, or fail...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB83Intro
25%
Repealing certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act prospectively.
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2024-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB168Intro
25%
Establishing the Task Force to Study Aggressive and Reckless Driving to study data, research, initiatives, and policies regarding aggressive and reckless driving; and requiring the Task Force to submit an interim report by December 1, 2024 and a fina...
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2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB110Intro
25%
Requiring that certain criteria and standards used by private review agents for health insurance utilization review relating to mental health and substance use disorder benefits meet certain requirements; requiring a private review agent to take cert...
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2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB1110Intro
25%
Requiring child advocacy centers to report annually to the Behavioral Health Administration certain information related to behavioral health care services provided at the center; requiring the Administration to include in its annual report certain in...
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2024-02-04
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB93Intro
25%
Requiring that certain criteria and standards used by private review agents for health insurance utilization review relating to mental health and substance use disorder benefits meet certain requirements; requiring a private review agent to take cert...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB403Intro
25%
Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making certain requests; establishing requirements and prohibitions governing aid in dying, including requirements related to requests for aid in dying, consulting physicians, mental health assessm...
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2024-02-02
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB720Intro
25%
Establishing a program within the Division of Correction that provides formerly incarcerated individuals and individuals on probation with certain services; requiring the facility that administers the program to be located in Prince George's County; ...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB732Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Juvenile Services and the Maryland Department of Health to establish a certain inpatient program for children who have been adjudicated delinquent to provide rehabilitation, comprehensive care, and holistic therapies that ...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB48Intro
25%
Decreasing the term of office for the judges of the circuit courts; increasing the number of years between successive retention elections for judges of the Appellate Court of Maryland and justices of the Supreme Court of Maryland; providing for a tra...
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2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB405Intro
25%
Specifying certain qualifications and training necessary for an individual to be appointed or approved by a court as a custody evaluator; specifying that certain expert evidence is admissible in certain child custody and visitation proceedings under ...
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2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB644Intro
25%
Requiring a local department of social services or a law enforcement agency to provide a certain notice to a parent or caretaker of a child at a certain time during an investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect; and excluding evidence obtained...
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2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB636Intro
25%
Establishing the Commission to Study the Ability of the Department of Juvenile Services to Provide Effective Social Services to Juvenile Offenders; and requiring the Commission to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Genera...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB670Intro
25%
Requiring the court, in determining the appropriate allocation of custody or visitation between the parties that is in the best interest of the child, to consider the ability of each of the parties to meet the child's developmental needs, the relatio...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB739Intro
25%
Establishing the Algorithmic Addiction Fund; providing that the Fund includes all revenue received by the State from a judgment against, or settlement with, technology conglomerates, technology companies, social media conglomerates, or social media c...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB87Intro
25%
Providing that a person who is convicted of first-degree murder may be sentenced to death under certain circumstances; and establishing certain procedures relating to custody, warrant of execution, incompetency, method of execution, witnesses, certif...
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB389Intro
25%
Authorizing an individual who is at least 60 years old and has been imprisoned for at least 20 years to file a motion to reduce the duration of the individual's sentence; requiring the court to conduct a hearing on a motion to reduce the duration of ...
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2024-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB724Intro
25%
Authorizing an individual who is serving a term of confinement to petition a court to reduce the sentence if the individual has served at least 20 years of the individuals term of confinement and at least 3 years have passed since the court decided a...
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB400Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for annual behavioral health wellness visits; and applyi...
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2024-01-26
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB124Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for annual behavioral health wellness visits.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB443Intro
25%
Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making certain requests; establishing requirements and prohibitions governing aid in dying, including requirements related to requests for aid in dying, consulting physicians, mental health assessm...
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2024-01-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB327Intro
25%
Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a ...
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2024-01-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB365Intro
25%
Specifying certain qualifications and training necessary for an individual to be appointed or approved by a court as a custody evaluator; and specifying that certain expert evidence is admissible in certain child custody and visitation proceedings un...
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2024-01-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB377Intro
25%
Altering the fiscal years, to begin in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill a certain appropriation to the Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program.
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2024-01-17
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB206Intro
25%
Establishing that it is unlawful for a parent or guardian of a student in a public school to fail to seek and participate in counseling with the parent's or guardian's child after receiving a certain notice of violent and disruptive behavior; and req...
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2024-01-16
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB317Intro
25%
Authorizing a State's Attorney to file a motion for a reduction of sentence at any time during the period of active incarceration recommending a lesser sentence if it is in the interest of justice; authorizing an individual to file a response within ...
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2024-01-16
To House Judiciary Committee
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