| MD | HB464 | Pass | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-26
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 1048 |
| MD | HB51 | Pass | 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 to allow funds from the Fund to be used for admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 924 |
| MD | HB119 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 752 |
| MD | HB42 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 765 |
| MD | HB84 | Pass | Requiring, on or before January 1, 2025, each hospital and urgent care center in the State to implement an evidence-based protocol for the early recognition and treatment of a patient with sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock that is based on gener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 922 |
| MD | HB127 | Pass | Establishing the Nonoccupational Postexposure Prophylaxis (nPEP) Standing Order Program to authorize pharmacists to dispense nPEP under certain circumstances; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to adopt regulations necessary for the administ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 753 |
| MD | HB499 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 905 |
| MD | HB647 | Pass | Establishing requirements and prohibitions for pet insurance policies that are issued to a resident of the State or are sold, solicited, negotiated, or offered in the State, including disclosure requirements and requirements and prohibitions related ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 740 |
| MD | HB676 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 960 |
| MD | HB865 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 822 |
| MD | HB986 | Pass | 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, including coverage for intensive behavioral therapy, bariatric surger...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 777 |
| MD | HB1259 | Pass | Including image-guided breast biopsy in the definition of "supplemental breast examination" for the purpose of certain provisions of law requiring insurers, health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for supplement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 868 |
| MD | HB1293 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 813 |
| MD | HB1472 | Pass | Authorizing the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2025, to include at least $500,000 in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 783 |
| MD | HB548 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances to study existing laws, scientific data, and practices related to the use of natural psychedelic substances; requiring the Task Force to make recommendations regarding a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 792 |
| MD | HB404 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 743 |
| MD | HB567 | Pass | Establishing generally the manner in which a controller or a processor may process a consumer's personal data; authorizing a consumer to exercise certain rights in regards to the consumer's personal data; requiring a controller of personal data to es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 454 |
| MD | HB1013 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 657 |
| MD | HB1168 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 600 |
| MD | HB96 | 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 177 |
| MD | HB539 | Pass | Requiring each public institution of higher education to adopt a policy to authorize a student to withdraw from the institution under extenuating circumstances and to refund the student for tuition and fees paid by the student for a certain semester ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 299 |
| MD | HB669 | Pass | Altering the frequencies in which industrial noise must be for an employer to be required to provide workers' compensation to a covered employee for hearing loss; altering the method used to determine the percentage of hearing loss deafness for purpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 282 |
| MD | HB1195 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education and Maryland Department of Health to develop guidelines to reduce the risk of exposure to anaphylactic major food allergens in child care settings; requiring the State Department of Education to create a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 273 |
| MD | HB1302 | Pass | Altering the definition of "provide esthetic services" to include certain services and to provide that it does not include the diagnosis of illness, disease, or injury or performing ablation of the dermis or hypodermis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 325 |
| MD | HB30 | Pass | Conforming provisions of State health insurance law with existing federal requirements, including updating effective dates for federal regulations, clarifying federal consumer protection regulations resulting from changes to the federal No Surprises ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 117 |
| MD | HB584 | Pass | Providing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal who have thyroid, colon, or ovarian cancer are presumed, under certain circu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 13 |
| 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 | 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 | HB1423 | 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] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB352 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1119 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Algorithmic Addiction Fund; providing that the Fund includes all revenue received by the State from a judgment against, or settlement with, technology conglomerates, technology companies, social media conglomerates, or social media c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB370 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Labor and the Department of Human Services, to conduct a study on the preparedness of health facilities in the State to respond to viral illnesses and the ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1096 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a community-based organization, with the approval of the Maryland Department of Health, to establish an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program to provide a location for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1376 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, managed care organizations, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for a special administrative...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1456 | Intro
25% | Requiring that an application for a license, an identification card, or a moped operator's permit allow an applicant to indicate the applicant's nonapparent disability; and requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to ensure that the license, identi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB118 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Parole Commission to consider the age of incarcerated individuals when determining whether to grant parole; altering how the Commission evaluates a request for medical parole; requiring the Commission to develop procedures fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB185 | Intro
25% | Repealing provisions relating to gubernatorial approval of a decision of the Maryland Parole Commission to grant medical parole to an inmate serving a sentence of life imprisonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB184 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Healthy Maryland Program as a public corporation and a unit of State government to provide comprehensive universal single-payer health care services for residents of the State by January 1, 2026; establishing requirements and prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB965 | Intro
25% | Altering the eligibility requirements for certain screening mammograms and clinical breast examinations provided by the Breast Cancer Program to include women under the age of 45 years who are considered high risk for breast cancer; and requiring the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1036 | 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] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1084 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an employer from requiring an employee to work on-site at the employer's workplace if the employee provides documentation from a physician or other licensed health care practitioner that the employee has been diagnosed with an autoimmune ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1145 | Intro
25% | Establishing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal demonstrate disablement for purposes of workers' compensation and are dee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1137 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage for calcium score testing for individuals who have at least three of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1187 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Reserve Funding Assistance Program to provide funds to residents of common ownership communities in order to assist with the payment of increased assessments as a result of certain reserve studies; authorizing a resident to apply for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1351 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage for the full length of long-term antibiotic treatment of Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses under certain circumst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB686 | Intro
25% | Requiring a youth sports program to develop venue-specific emergency action plans for each facility that is used by the youth sports program during relevant athletic seasons; requiring an action plan to include the operation and use of automated exte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB982 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting insurance carriers that offer life insurance, long-term care insurance, and disability insurance policies or contracts from taking certain action regarding coverage based on whether an applicant or a policy or contract holder has requeste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB355 | Intro
25% | Allowing a licensed direct-entry midwife to assume or take responsibility for a client who had a previous cesarean section and regulating the circumstances under which the responsibility may be assumed or taken; altering the required contents of a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB403 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making certain requests; establishing requirements and prohibitions governing aid in dying, including requirements related to requests for aid in dying, consulting physicians, mental health assessm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
