| MD | SB257 | Pass | Continuing the State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act by extending to July 1, 2030, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 392 |
| MD | SB239 | Pass | Continuing the State Board of Occupational Therapy Practice in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act by extending to July 1, 2030, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 390 |
| MD | SB236 | Pass | Continuing the State Acupuncture Board in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to July 1, 2030, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 387 |
| MD | SB240 | Pass | 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, 2030, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 391 |
| MD | SB18 | Pass | Authorizing a pharmacist to order and administer certain vaccinations to individuals in certain age groups if certain requirements are met; altering the vaccinations that a pharmacist can administer to individuals who are at least 3 years old; and al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 232 |
| MD | SB238 | Pass | Continuing the State Board of Dietetic Practice in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act by extending to July 1, 2030, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 389 |
| MD | SB237 | Pass | 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, 2030, the termination provisions relating to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 388 |
| MD | SB225 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 401 |
| MD | SB180 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 279 |
| MD | SB117 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 178 |
| MD | SB241 | Pass | 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, 2030, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 393 |
| MD | SB242 | Pass | Continuing the State Board of Social Work Examiners in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act by extending to July 1, 2030, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 394 |
| MD | SB1106 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 382 |
| MD | SB376 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to include $5,000,000 in the annual budget for the University of Maryland School of Medicine to provide clinical care at the University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center; and requiring the Governor to include in the bud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 181 |
| MD | SB222 | Pass | Clarifying that a quorum of the State Board of Environmental Health Specialists consists of a majority of appointed members; altering the circumstances under which an applicant for licensure is qualified to take the examination by adding completion o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 49 |
| 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 | SB224 | Pass | Requiring a person in charge of a cemetery to write on a burial-transit permit, the date of final disposition, the name and physical address of the cemetery, the burial, inurnment or scattering section and the lot and space number, or if the body or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 106 |
| MD | SB374 | 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 44 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB949 | Engross
50% | 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
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB1056 | Enroll
75% | 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 located behind a counter; requiring certain ...
[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 | 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 | 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 | SB42 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting an adult from allowing certain minors to ride a horse, donkey, mule, or pony on a highway, a public horse-riding path, or the grounds of a certain facility unless the minor is wearing a properly secured helmet that meets or exceeds certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB335 | Engross
50% | 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
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB718 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Maryland Pathway to Nursing Pilot Program in the Maryland Higher Education Commission to support students in licensed practical nursing education programs who intend to practice nursing as a career in the State; requiring the Secreta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB986 | Engross
50% | 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 Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB362 | Enroll
75% | Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering, from December 1, 2024, to January 15, 2027, the date by which the Accountability and Implementation Board has to conduct and s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB791 | 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 | SB944 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting the sale of natural membrane condoms, rather than all nonlatex condoms, through a vending machine or other automatic device; excluding a violation of the prohibition on the sale of natural membrane comdoms through a vending machine or oth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1080 | 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 employees of the Department who are in certain b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1071 | 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 | SB119 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| 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 | SB830 | 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 for each violation of the Act a civil penalty of up to $5,000 on the physician's o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Passed Enrolled |
| 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 | SB795 | Enroll
75% | Altering the definition of "practice audiology" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the licensure and regulation of audiologists to include certain procedures that do not require anesthesia and certain screenings, testing, and ima...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB938 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop, on or before December 1, 2026, a public education campaign on prostate, lung, and breast cancer prevention that targets communities disproportionately impacted by prostate, lung, and breast canc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB1059 | Enroll
75% | Establishing requirements on certain health departments and health care providers and facilities regarding maternal health, including requirements regarding prenatal risk assessment forms and postpartum infant and maternal referral forms; requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB950 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the reimbursement of a sexual assault forensic exam conducted through peer-to-peer telehealth under certain circumstances; requiring the Maryland Sexual Assault Evidence Kit Policy and Funding Committee to conduct a study on the feasibili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB799 | 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] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB999 | 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] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB197 | 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] | 2024-03-29
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB613 | Enroll
75% | Extending, from October 1, 2024, to July 1, 2026, the date by which individuals 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 manag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29
Passed Enrolled |
