| 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 | HB1141 | Engross
50% | Stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Information Technology evaluate the feasibility of creating a virtual 3-1-1 portal as a source for Maryland residents to obtain nonemergency government information and services utilizi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1263 | Engross
50% | Establishing certain requirements for assisted living referrers, including requirements related to the maintenance of general liability insurance, criminal history records checks, and the provision of certain agreements and descriptions of services; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB297 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| 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 | 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 | HB1277 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a use of force report from including information that is prohibited from disclosure by State or federal law; requiring an employer of a security guard providing security guard services on the premises of a health care facility to report e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB123 | Engross
50% | Authorizing an individual who is serving a term of confinement to petition a court to reduce the sentence under certain circumstances; limiting the number of petitions that an individual may file to two; and establishing procedures for a proceeding u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB190 | Engross
50% | Requiring a law enforcement agency that receives a certain request for a wellness check of an individual to conduct a wellness check of the individual within a reasonable amount of time after receiving the request under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB1102 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the State Department of Education to award funding for a new Judy Center or Family Support Center for planning and development under a certain circumstance; altering the date by which the Accountability and Implementation Board has to con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB568 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim May 8th as Community Health Worker Appreciation Day; and requiring the proclamation to urge educational and cultural organizations to observe community health workers with informative programs and activitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| 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 | HB281 | Engross
50% | Requiring that the annual budget of a cooperative housing corporation, a residential condominium, or a homeowners association include certain funds; requiring that certain funds for certain reserve accounts be deposited on or before the last day of e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB558 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop a comprehensive health education framework; requiring each county board of education to create an age-appropriate curriculum that is cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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 |
| MD | HB1396 | Engross
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB24 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to perform a certain environmental justice evaluation of certain environmental permit applications under certain circumstances; authorizing the Department to take certain actions on certain environmental pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB829 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB876 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from excluding coverage for certain specialty drugs that are administered or dispensed by a provider that meets certain criteria; and requiring the rei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1194 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1297 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education to conduct a comprehensive study of the potential use of artificial intelligence in public schools; requiring the study to evaluate best practices for the safe, responsible, and ethical uses of artificial i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1310 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Baltimore City Coordinated Youth Violence Review and Response Team to examine and prevent violence against youth through intensive case management; requiring that the review team be provided with access to certain information and rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB71 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Division of Correction to allow a certain pregnant woman and a certain woman who recently gave birth to transfer to the prerelease unit for women for up to 1 year following the birth; establishing the Healthy Start Bonding Program to fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB825 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Secretary of Health, on request of a county, to delegate to the county the authority to conduct site visits and full surveys of nursing homes; and requiring that the Maryland Department of Health and certain counties equally share the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB879 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to include certain discounts, financial assistance payments, product vouchers, and other out-of-pocket expenses made by or on behalf of an insured or enr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB848 | Engross
50% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB673 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting the creation of a lien on owner-occupied residential property by contract or as a result of a breach of contract for the payment of medical debt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB34 | Engross
50% | Entering into the Social Work Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing regulated social workers who hold interstate compact licenses to practice social work in member states; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; establishing th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB425 | Engross
50% | Entering into the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact; establishing criteria for participating states; authorizing an advanced practice registered nurse to practice in a party state under certain scope of practice rules; establishing the Inter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB232 | Engross
50% | Repealing obsolete and redundant language in, clarifying language in, and reorganizing certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Physicians and the regulation of physicians, physician assistants, and allied health professions; altering p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
