Maryland House Bill 515 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-5)
Status: Introduced on January 27 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-28 - Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: House Health and Government Operations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requiring specified hospitals to establish a specified substance use treatment program; providing that the purpose of the program is to identify patients in need of substance use treatment and, if appropriate, admit the patient or, if admission is not required, to direct the patient to an outpatient treatment setting; requiring specified hospitals to operate or contract to operate specified substance use treatment units or to refer specified patients to a specified treatment unit; etc.

Hospitals - Establishment of Substance Use Treatment Program - Requirements

Del. Dan Morhaim [D]	Del. Curtis Anderson [D]	Del. Kumar Barve [D]	Del. Joseph Cluster [R]
Del. Kathleen Dumais [D]	Del. David Fraser-hidalgo [D]	Del. William Frick [D]	Del. Glen Glass [R]
Del. Ana Gutierrez [D]	Del. Anne Healey [D]	Sen. Shelly Hettleman [D]	Del. Seth Howard [R]
Del. Trent Kittleman [R]	Sen. Clarence Lam [D]	Del. Brooke Lierman [D]	Del. Aruna Miller [D]
Del. David Moon [D]	Del. Pamela Queen [D]	Del. Shane Robinson [D]	Del. James Tarlau [D]
Del. Frank Turner [D]	Sen. Chris West [R]	Sen. Karen Lewis Young [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-28	House	Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
2017-02-17	House	Hearing canceled
2017-02-21	House	Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
2017-01-27	House	First Reading Health and Government Operations

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB0515?ys=2017rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0515f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/fnotes/bil_0005/hb0515.pdf