| 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 | 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 | SB697 | Enroll
75% | Removing a certain reimbursement limit on grant awards to certain members of the National Guard for the cost of certain health care and dental care premiums, subject to the limitation that the total amount of grants awarded to eligible recipients in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB1092 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB790 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide Maryland Medical Assistance Program services for individuals under the Employed Individuals with Disabilities Program in accordance with certain requirements; prohibiting the Department from limi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| 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 | SB1024 | Engross
50% | Requiring that each public middle and high school alter the venue-specific emergency action plan for athletic facilities to incorporate a cardiac emergency response plan; and requiring each public middle and high school to review and update the cardi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB371 | Enroll
75% | Requiring residential service agencies to submit certain reports to the Maryland Department of Labor regarding wage rates for personal care aides by September 1 each year, beginning in 2025; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health to report t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB600 | 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] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB701 | Enroll
75% | Altering the amount of funds in each of calendar years 2024 and 2025, the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange is authorized to designate for annual subsidies under the State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Pilot Program to include unspent f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB1057 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB497 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB945 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health and the Maryland Insurance Administration jointly to conduct a study of Maryland Medical Assistance Program and commercial health insurance coverage to measure the number and percentage of individuals who h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB631 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Aging to contract with an independent consultant to complete an insurance study on public and private options for leveraging resources to help individuals prepare for long-term care services and support needs; and requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB1175 | Intro
25% | Requiring a hospital to conduct screening on an individual presenting at an emergency department of the hospital to determine whether the individual has an emergency medical condition; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the treatme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB741 | Intro
25% | Requiring each public senior higher education institution to adopt a policy regarding pregnant and parenting students using certain guidelines; and requiring each public senior higher education institution to post the policy on the institution's webs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB349 | Intro
25% | Authorizing certain retirees who began State service before July 1, 2011, to be eligible for prescription drug benefits in the State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program; specifying that prescription drug benefits shall be discont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB862 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB876 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB988 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB1021 | Intro
25% | Altering the reimbursement levels for drug products that the Maryland Medical Assistance Program is required to establish and that pharmacy benefits managers that contract with a pharmacy on behalf of a managed care organization are required to reimb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB1019 | Intro
25% | Requiring that the calculation of an enrollee's contribution to a cost sharing requirement for a prescription drug be based on the list price of the drug reduced by at least 85% of the total amount of rebates received or expected to be received by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB990 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB208 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB716 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB124 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB487 | Intro
25% | Altering the reimbursement rate at which health maintenance organizations are required to pay nonparticipating health care providers for services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB28 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a violation of a condition of probation, parole, or mandatory supervision that involves the use or possession of a firearm is not a technical violation for certain purposes; requiring the Commissioner of Correction to provide a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB179 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a violation of a condition of probation, parole, or mandatory supervision that involves the use or possession of a firearm is not a technical violation for certain purposes; requiring the Commissioner of Correction to provide a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB328 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-13
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
