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MDSB1165Intro
25%
Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual.
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2024-03-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB244Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-20
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB1092Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-20
To House Appropriations 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; requiring the Maryland Commission on...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB210Engross
50%
Delaying the effective date to January 1, 2030, of certain provisions of law that repeal the authority of paramedics to administer influenza and COVID-19 immunizations under certain circumstances.
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2024-03-19
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB224Engross
50%
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 ...
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2024-03-19
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB614Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-19
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB822Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-19
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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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1019Engross
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...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1080Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-19
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1229Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1230Engross
50%
Prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, or 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 ...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1304Engross
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...
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2024-03-19
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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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1396Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to conduct a certain study on linkages between levels of care within the substance use disorder treatment and recovery continuum of care; and requiring the Department to report the results of the study and ...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1521Engross
50%
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 ...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB119Engross
50%
Altering certain HIV and syphilis reporting and testing requirements for hospitals and health care providers for pregnant women and newborns, including by requiring that the pregnancy status of certain individuals be included in certain reports and t...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB152Engross
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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB97Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB203Engross
50%
Altering a certain requirement that the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services annually report to the General Assembly about opioid use disorder among incarcerated individuals in local correctional facilities by repealing c...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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
MDHB411Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-18
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 awareness and skills building training program for service sector employees; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health, su...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB983Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB980Engross
50%
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...
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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
MDHB1068Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB1078Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1194Engross
50%
Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to establish a clinical staffing committee by January 1, 2025; requiring each clinical staffing committee to develop a clinical staffing plan by July 1, 2025; requiring that an administrator of a hosp...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB119Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-16
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1472Intro
25%
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.
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2024-03-16
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB189Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB149Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB276Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to submit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention any data regarding abortion requested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, unless submitting the data would violate federal or State...
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2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB461Engross
50%
Renaming the State Advisory Council on Quality Care at the End of Life to be the State Advisory Council on Serious Illness Care.
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2024-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB676Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB884Intro
25%
Prohibiting an individual from committing or threatening certain actions, including certain actions related to sex trafficking, with the intent of coercing a pregnant woman to have an abortion; providing that a pregnant minor is considered an emancip...
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2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB858Intro
25%
Prohibiting a qualified provider from performing or inducing an abortion on a pregnant woman within a certain period of time after the woman receives certain ultrasound imaging; establishing certain requirements related to the performance of a certai...
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2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1233Intro
25%
Requiring that an abortion be performed by a physician, rather than a qualified provider; repealing certain provisions of law related to State interference with an abortion, regulations related to abortion, and liability or criminal punishment for qu...
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2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1216Intro
25%
Establishing the High-Risk Pregnancy Reimbursement Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to provide reimbursement to individuals for unforeseen out-of-pocket costs for the individual's high-risk pregnancy; authorizing an individual to apply for reimburs...
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2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB51Engross
50%
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 establishing the Pediatric Cancer Research Commis...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1061Intro
25%
Prohibiting an employer from requiring an employee to work on-site at the employer's workplace if the employee provides documentation from a physician or other licensed health care practitioner that the employee has been diagnosed with an autoimmune ...
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2024-03-14
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB866Intro
25%
Authorizing a county to deem conclusively that a small halfway house or small private group home is a single-family dwelling or a multifamily dwelling for purposes of zoning.
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2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB1057Intro
25%
Altering the financial eligibility criteria for the home- and community-based services waiver submitted by the Maryland Department of Health to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to include categorically needy individuals with an income ...
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2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1346Intro
25%
Altering the procedures related to competency evaluations, including by requiring the Maryland Department of Health, rather than the court, to determine the basis on which a defendant will be examined; altering the definition of "designated health ca...
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2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1298Intro
25%
Authorizing the father of a child to file a petition to add the father's surname to the child's name under certain circumstances and establishing related court procedures; and requiring the Maryland Judiciary to develop and update, as appropriate, a ...
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2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB1104Intro
25%
Requiring out-of-network health care facilities to provide certain information to a consumer and obtain certain consent before providing a health care service; requiring that certain out-of-network status information be provided in a certain consent ...
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1148Intro
25%
Requiring out-of-network health care facilities to provide certain information to a consumer and obtain certain consent before providing a health care service; requiring that certain out-of-network status information be provided in a certain consent ...
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB497Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to cover nonprescription naloxone hydrochloride and any other drug or product that is approved by the federal...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
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