| MD | SB228 | Pass | Repealing a certain provision of law providing that a qualified health plan is not required under certain circumstances to provide essential benefits that duplicate the minimum benefits of qualified dental plans; and repealing the authority of the Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 116 |
| MD | SB210 | Pass | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 75 |
| 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 |
| 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 | SB243 | Pass | Continuing the Behavior Analyst Advisory Committee within the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to July 1, 2026, the termination pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 50 |
| MD | SB221 | Pass | Authorizing certain health occupations boards to adopt regulations establishing reciprocity for individuals licensed or certified in another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 33 |
| 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 | SB409 | Pass | Altering the licensure requirements that the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists may waive, and the circumstances under which the requirements may be waived, for applicants for a license to practice clinical marriage and family ther...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 46 |
| MD | SB952 | Enroll
75% | Establishing certain requirements for assisted living referrers, including requirements related to the maintenance of general liability insurance, criminal history records checks, and the maintenance and provision of certain agreements and documents;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB134 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Office of the Correctional Ombudsman; authorizing the Justice Reinvestment Oversight Board to make a recommendation for the distribution of money from the Performance Incentive Grant Fund to the Office; requiring the Office to conduc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB167 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB408 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB413 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to public accommodation, housing, employment, financial transactions, education, insurance, the provision of public utility services, and State personnel actions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB430 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development to support certain eligible projects that improve the quality of life within and economic potential of Maryland communities by mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB453 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB445 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB482 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to establish the ENOUGH grant program, subject to certain requirements; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB614 | 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 beginning January 1, 2025; establishing that certain insure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB680 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the judge or jury in certain actions to make a certain determination and assign responsibility and liability in a certain manner; authorizing the State to continue to pursue certain actions if it does not obtain complete relief from certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB654 | Enroll
75% | Establishing a Student Support Specialist Network consisting of certain school-based personnel at each public high school in Prince George's County; requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to develop a certain template using certain g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1028 | 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] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB975 | Enroll
75% | 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; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB991 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB973 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1099 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the State Emergency Medical Services Board, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and implement an initiative under the Public Access Automated External Defibrillator Program to require that naloxone be co-loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1106 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB46 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the unenforceability of contracts for the sale of condominium units that do not contain a statement by the vendor or the unit owner as to whether the vendor or owner has knowledge of the presence of asbestos in the condominium, including...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB117 | Enroll
75% | Repealing the requirement that the Secretary of Health and the State Advisory Council on Hereditary and Congenital Disorders determine whether to approve the inclusion of a core condition in the system for newborn screening within 1 year after the ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB245 | Enroll
75% | 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, 2028, for certain provisions of law related to the Commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB225 | Enroll
75% | Continuing the Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Board in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to June 1, 2034, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB238 | Enroll
75% | Continuing the State Board of Dietetic Practice in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act by extending to July 1, 2028, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB237 | Enroll
75% | Continuing the State Board for Certification of Residential Child Care Program Professionals in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to July 1, 2028, the termination provisions relating to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB240 | Enroll
75% | Continuing the State Board of Examiners in Optometry in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to July 1, 2028, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB239 | Enroll
75% | Continuing the State Board of Occupational Therapy Practice in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act by extending to July 1, 2028, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB236 | Enroll
75% | Continuing the State Acupuncture Board in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to July 1, 2028, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB257 | Enroll
75% | Continuing the State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act by extending to July 1, 2028, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB241 | Enroll
75% | Continuing the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to July 1, 2028, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB541 | Enroll
75% | Regulating the manner in which a controller or a processor in possession of a consumer's personal data may process the consumer's personal data; authorizing a consumer to exercise certain rights in regards to the consumer's personal data; requiring a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB571 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a certain entity that offers an online product reasonably likely to be accessed by children to complete a certain data protection impact assessment by April 1, 2026; requiring a certain entity to maintain documentation of certain risks asso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB718 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Maryland Pathway to Nursing Pilot Program in the Maryland Higher Education Commission; requiring the Secretary of Higher Education to issue grants to at least two pilot sites that meet certain requirements by July 1, 2025; requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB729 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting a use of force report from including information that is prohibited from disclosure by State or federal law; requiring the employer of a security guard providing security guard services on the premises of a health care facility to report ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB1068 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-06
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB13 | 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 establishing the Pediatric Cancer Research Commis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB220 | 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] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB376 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Governor to include in the annual State budget for the MPowering Joint Steering Council to use exclusively on the University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing a General Fund appropriation of $1,500,000 in fiscal year 2026, $3,0...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB362 | Enroll
75% | Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering the funding formula for community colleges and the State aid program for private nonprofit institutions of higher education; au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB492 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health jointly to adopt certain State guidelines for school health services regarding student access to telehealth appointments during the school day in public middle and high...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB595 | Engross
50% | Requiring administrators, carriers, and pharmacy benefits managers to include certain cost sharing amounts paid by or on behalf of an enrollee or a beneficiary when calculating the enrollee's or beneficiary's contribution to a cost sharing requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
House Refuses Recede |
| MD | SB594 | 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; and requiring the Department to report its findings to the House Heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB723 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
