| MD | HB1048 | 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; and requiring the Commission, in coordination with the Council, to make ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 41 |
| MD | HB1521 | Pass | Altering the eligibility requirements for the Maryland Children's Health Program; and repealing the requirement that the Program be administered, based on the family income of eligible individuals, through the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 47 |
| MD | HB119 | Enroll
75% | Altering certain HIV and syphilis reporting and testing requirements for hospitals and health care providers for pregnant women and newborns; providing that certain documents related to certain HIV and syphilis reports are not discoverable and are no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB230 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB149 | Enroll
75% | Extending the time period from 5 to 7 years during which a health care provider is prohibited from destroying medical records and laboratory and X-ray reports; requiring that the notice required to be provided regarding the destruction of medical rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB96 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB353 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB865 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage related to prostheses; establishing that certain insurers, nonprofit health servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB986 | Enroll
75% | 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, including coverage for intensive behavioral therapy, bariatric surger...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB983 | Enroll
75% | Increasing the number of certain bargaining units for the purpose of specifying certain pay rates for certain employees of the Maryland Department of Health; and requiring that the pay rates of certain Department employees who are in certain bargaini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1472 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2025, to include at least $500,000 in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB152 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health and the Maryland Department of Labor, to conduct a study of the environmental and public health impacts of deathcare and funeral practices in the Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators M. Washington, Hester and Simonaire) |
| MD | HB97 | Enroll
75% | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, manufacturers of baby food to test a representative sample of each production aggregate of the manufacturer's final baby food product for certain toxic heavy metals; requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, manufact...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB358 | Enroll
75% | Establishing a Workgroup on Health and Wellness in Prince George's County to review and evaluate health and wellness practices, programs, services, and resources in Prince George's County and make recommendations regarding best practices in health an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1304 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-06
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB153 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB238 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting vaping in certain indoor areas and places of employment and certain mass transportation; requiring that certain signs be posted in each public indoor area and each public entrance to an indoor area where smoking or vaping is prohibited; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB189 | Enroll
75% | Requiring residential service agencies to submit certain reports to the Maryland Department of Labor regarding wage rates for personal care aides on or before September 1 each year, beginning in 2025; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB51 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB354 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Pathway to Nursing Pilot Program in the Maryland Higher Education Commission to support certain students in licensed practical nursing education programs, alleviate the shortage of nursing professionals by increasing graduat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB576 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program by July 1, 2026; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program in a county that does not opt to establish the program by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB583 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1155 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1230 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, exposing for sale, or advertising for sale a tianeptine product to an individual; and establishing a penalty for a retailer who violates the Act of a fine of up to $5,000 or imprisonment for up to 90...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB103 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to study the feasibility of including removable full and partial dentures and setting adequate reimbursement rates for providers on a per-patient basis for house calls and extended care facility calls among...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB84 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB411 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to report to certain committees of the General Assembly on current opioid overdose reversal drugs and, for any current opioid overdose reversal drug approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration, whe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB408 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB461 | Enroll
75% | Renaming the State Advisory Council on Quality Care at the End of Life to be the State Advisory Council on Serious Illness Care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB548 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB676 | Enroll
75% | Altering certain provisions of law authorizing certain activity by manufacturers of investigational drugs, biological products, or devices under the Right to Try Act to apply to manufacturers of certain individualized investigational treatments; alte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB822 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB933 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB969 | Enroll
75% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB887 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB980 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1009 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1051 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1168 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1068 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Comptroller to implement procedures to offer certain income tax return filers the opportunity to register to make an anatomical gift in accordance with the Maryland Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act through a hyperlink to the anatomic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1078 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide remote ultrasound procedures and remote fetal nonstress tests if the patient is in a residence or a location other than the office of the patient's provider and the provider follows the sam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1229 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a retailer that prepares, distributes, sells, or exposes for sale a kratom product to disclose the factual basis on which the representation is made; establishing prohibitions related to the preparation, distribution, and sale of kratom pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1293 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1333 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB42 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-03-28
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB127 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Nonoccupational Postexposure Prophylaxis (nPEP) Standing Order Program to authorize pharmacists to dispense nPEP under certain circumstances; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to adopt regulations necessary for the administ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Returned Passed |
| 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 | HB485 | Engross
50% | Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1019 | Engross
50% | Specifying that a petition for emergency evaluation is effective for 5 days after being endorsed by the court; authorizing a court, on a certain motion and for good cause shown, to extend a petition for up to 5 days at a time, but not to exceed a tot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1327 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
