| MD | HB146 | 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 32 |
| MD | HB380 | Pass | Prohibiting the State Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Board from requiring an applicant to provide proof that the applicant is lawfully present in the United States or have a Social Security number or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number as a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 43 |
| MD | HB628 | 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 45 |
| MD | HB96 | Enroll
75% | Repealing a certain requirement related to the inclusion of a core condition in the system for newborn screening; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to implement testing for a core condition listed in the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB119 | Enroll
75% | Altering certain HIV and syphilis reporting and testing requirements for hospitals and health care providers for pregnant women and newborns; providing that certain documents related to certain HIV and syphilis reports are not discoverable and are no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB149 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB865 | 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; establishing that certain insurers, nonprofit health servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB983 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1056 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting a 340B manufacturer from taking certain direct or indirect actions to limit or restrict the acquisition or delivery of a 340B drug; making a violation of the Act an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice within the meaning of the C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1047 | Enroll
75% | Providing that a party in a criminal trial involving an allegation of sexually assaultive behavior may not introduce information that physical evidence of sexually assaultive behavior was obtained using certain materials; providing that selling, offe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1128 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Talent Innovation Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to increase access to high-quality job training by using innovative and sustainable talent financing mechanisms to help meet skill needs in the State's prominent and emerg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1180 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail from displaying cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices for sale unless the products are located behind a counter; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1439 | Enroll
75% | Increasing the motor vehicle registration emergency medical system surcharge for certain motor vehicles; providing for the distribution of revenues derived from the surcharge; altering certain provisions of law related to the Maryland Trauma Physicia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1426 | Enroll
75% | 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; requiring the State Board to approve certain specifications for teachers and admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB404 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a law enforcement agency that receives a certain request for a wellness check of an individual to conduct a wellness check or submit a request for the relevant law enforcement agency to conduct a wellness check without unreasonable delay; a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB152 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators M. Washington, Hester and Simonaire) |
| MD | HB306 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Workgroup on Independent Innovation in Prince George's County to promote innovation and technology in the county; and requiring the Workgroup by January 15, 2026, to report on recommendations regarding strategies to support investmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB499 | Enroll
75% | Requiring each owner of a private dental office to designate a licensed dentist to be the supervising dentist for the private dental office; requiring a supervising dentist to complete the registration required by the State Board of Dental Examiners ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1388 | Enroll
75% | Applying to certain veterinary and health care professionals certain provisions of law stating that certain noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in certain employment contracts are null and void as being against the public policy of the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB86 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with certain groups, to develop training for certain school personnel to identify symptoms of anaphylaxis, asthma, and respiratory distress in students; requiring the Maryland Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB189 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB39 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Maryland Department of Health to reimburse a residential service agency for personal assistance services only if the personal assistance services are provided by an individual classified as an employee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| 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 | HB576 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program by July 1, 2026; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program in a county that does not opt to establish the program by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB806 | 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] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB932 | Enroll
75% | Altering and establishing requirements and prohibitions related to health insurance utilization review; altering requirements related to internal grievance procedures and adverse decision procedures; altering certain reporting requirements on health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB934 | Enroll
75% | Altering the circumstances under which individuals without a license to practice medicine may perform X-ray duties; authorizing the State Board of Physicians to impose a civil penalty of up to $5,000 for each violation on the physician's office and $...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB874 | Enroll
75% | Extending, from October 1, 2024, to July 1, 2026, the date by which an individual must be licensed by the State Board of Long-Term Care Administrators before practicing as an assisted living manager in the State; altering the requirements for the man...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1171 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting the sale of natural membrane condoms, rather than all nonlatex condoms, through a vending machine or other automatic device; repealing a criminal penalty related to the sale of certain contraceptives by means of a vending machine or other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1155 | Enroll
75% | Requiring hospitals to establish and maintain certain protocols and capacity related to the treatment of patients who are being treated for an opioid-related overdose or opioid-related emergency medical condition; requiring hospitals to make a referr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB522 | Enroll
75% | Requiring, by December 31, 2024, 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 on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1143 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Maryland Emergency Department Wait Time Reduction Commission to address factors throughout the health care system that contribute to increased emergency department wait times; authorizing the Commission to request data from certain e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB103 | 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] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB378 | Enroll
75% | Requiring that an individual shall have received at a minimum a degree from a college or university accredited by an educational accrediting association as required by the Commission on Dietetic Registration to be licensed as a dietician-nutritionist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB381 | Enroll
75% | Requiring an applicant for a license to practice optometry and certain applicants for the renewal of a license to submit to a criminal history records check obtained from the Criminal Justice Information Central Repository of the Department of Public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB411 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB676 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB786 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the State Board of Dental Examiners to waive certain education requirements for certain applicants for a limited license to practice dentistry who provide dental services for adults.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB755 | Enroll
75% | Altering the membership of the State Board of Social Work Examiners; and repealing obsolete references to certified social worker licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB759 | Enroll
75% | Requiring advanced practice registered nurses practicing as an advanced practice registered nurse in the State to notify patients in writing if the nurse does not maintain professional liability insurance coverage or if the coverage has lapsed and no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB757 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing a supervised medical graduate to provide delegated duties under direct supervision in accordance with regulations adopted by the State Board of Physicians; prohibiting an individual from practicing as a supervised medical graduate for mor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB959 | Enroll
75% | Altering the continuing education requirement for certified dialysis technicians to complete 3 hours of continuing education approved by the Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1013 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing a licensed clinical professional counselor to sign a certificate of illness or disability when a State employee uses sick leave for 5 or more consecutive workdays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1105 | Enroll
75% | Requiring an individual, subject to certain exceptions, to be certified as an advanced practice registered nurse before practicing advanced practice registered nursing in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1051 | Enroll
75% | Establishing requirements on local health departments and certain health care providers and facilities regarding maternal health, including requirements regarding prenatal risk assessment forms and postpartum infant and maternal referral forms; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1168 | 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] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1125 | Enroll
75% | Exempting an individual who practices as a certain nursing assistant for less than 4 months under federal regulations from the State's certification requirement; altering the designation of, and licensure requirements for, certified nursing assistant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1053 | Enroll
75% | Altering the qualifications for the executive director of the State Board of Nursing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1293 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop and implement a 3-year public education campaign on prostate, lung, and breast cancer prevention that targets communities disproportionately impacted by prostate, lung, and breast cancer on or be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1476 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Governor to appoint the licensed audiologist members to the State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists from a list submitted by the Maryland Academy of Audiology...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
