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MDHB1421Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from offering for sale in the State a gene structure- or function-modifying product unless the product is labeled in a prominent and conspicuous manner with the words "Gene structure- or function-modifying product" and all potent...
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1317Intro
25%
Requiring elementary schools, secondary schools, and county school systems to use certain funds received for services provided under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program or the Maryland Children's Health Insurance Program to provide certain positi...
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB1136Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in the State food that contains brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, or red dye 3.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB1137Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a list of diet pills, make the list publicly accessible on or before January 1, 2025, and update the list on a quarterly basis.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB691Intro
25%
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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2024-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB686Intro
25%
Requiring a youth sports program to develop venue-specific emergency action plans for each facility that is used by the youth sports program during relevant athletic seasons; requiring an action plan to include the operation and use of automated exte...
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2024-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB610Intro
25%
Prohibiting food service facilities from serving food containing or consisting of insect flour unless certain menus and notices contain a certain label.
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2024-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB722Intro
25%
Prohibiting a health care provider from knowingly engaging in or causing certain medical or surgical procedures to be performed on a minor without the consent of the parent, guardian, or custodian of the minor if performed for the purpose of attempti...
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2024-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB893Intro
25%
Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to convene a workgroup to study and make recommendations on vision support treatments and services for students; requiring the workgroup to report i...
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2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB982Intro
25%
Prohibiting insurance carriers that offer life insurance, long-term care insurance, and disability insurance policies or contracts from taking certain action regarding coverage based on whether an applicant or a policy or contract holder has requeste...
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2024-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1057Intro
25%
Establishing the Task Force to Study the Use and Possession of De Minimis Quantities of Controlled Dangerous Substances; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by October 1, 20...
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2024-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB862Intro
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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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance 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
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
MDSB947Intro
25%
Establishing the Abortion Care Access Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care services for individuals in the State; establishing the Abortion Care Access Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to provide grants u...
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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
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
MDSB208Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to increase the hourly reimbursement rate for certain personal assistance services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to a minimum of $25 per hour; requiring provider agencies to pay the greater ...
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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
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
MDHB509Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a process to receive federal financial participation for the payment of county or municipal general funds appropriated to community providers that serve individuals with developmental disabilitie...
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2024-02-01
To House Health and Government Operations 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
MDHB767Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, on or before January 1 each year, beginning in 2025, to conduct a certain review of billed charges and reimbursement rates for adult and pediatric dental services and report the findings to certain committ...
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2024-02-01
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB427Intro
25%
Authorizing a community-based organization, with the approval of the Maryland Department of Health, to establish an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program to provide a location for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide st...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB599Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a process to receive federal financial participation for the payment of county or municipal general funds appropriated to community providers that serve individuals with developmental disabilitie...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Finance 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
MDSB716Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to reimburse physicians billing for maternal fetal medicine services at the rate set under the federal Medicare fee schedule.
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2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB340Intro
25%
Requiring the Governor in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of at least $1,000,000 for the Prescription Drug Affordability Fund which provides funding for the Board; and requiring t...
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2024-01-26
To House Health and Government Operations 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
MDHB462Intro
25%
Requiring that the Governor's proposed budget for each of fiscal years 2026, 2027, and 2028, include an 8% reimbursement rate increase for providers of certain health care services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, the Maryland Children'...
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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
MDSB388Intro
25%
Requiring the Governor in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of at least $1,000,000 for the Prescription Drug Affordability Fund which provides funding for the Board; and requiring t...
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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
MDSB347Intro
25%
Authorizing designated medical personnel to administer medical cannabis to qualifying patients only if the cannabis is obtained through the qualifying patients caregiver and is administered in accordance with the certifying provider's written instruc...
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2024-01-22
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB57Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "dispenser" for purposes of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to include certain licensed veterinarians when dispensing controlled substances for animals in the usual course of providing professional services; and pr...
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2024-01-19
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB142Intro
25%
Prohibiting insurance carriers that offer life insurance, long-term care insurance, and disability insurance policies or contracts from taking certain action regarding coverage based on whether an applicant or a policy or contract holder has requeste...
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2024-01-15
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB282Intro
25%
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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2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB328Intro
25%
Requiring that the Governor's proposed budget for each of fiscal years 2026, 2027, and 2028 include an 8% reimbursement rate increase for providers of certain health care services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, the Maryland Children's...
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2024-01-13
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB201Intro
25%
Requiring, when a child is born at a health care facility, the attending physician to offer to the presumed father of the child the option to take a paternity test; requiring that the offer to take a paternity test be made orally and in writing and b...
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2024-01-11
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB211Intro
25%
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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2024-01-11
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB246Intro
25%
Establishing the Nonoccupational Postexposure Prophylaxis (nPEP) Standing Order Program to authorize pharmacists and health care providers to prescribe or dispense nPEP under certain circumstances; and authorizing the Maryland Department of Health to...
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2024-01-10
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB235Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "dispenser" for purposes of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to include certain licensed veterinarians when dispensing controlled substances for animals in the usual course of providing professional services; and pr...
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2024-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee
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