| MD | HB448 | Pass | Authorizing certain health care practitioners to establish a
practitioner-patient relationship through telehealth interactions; requiring a health care practitioner providing telehealth services to be held to the same standards of practice that are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 15 |
| MD | HB33 | Enroll | Prohibiting a certain person from intentionally and maliciously inflicting severe emotional distress on a vulnerable adult; and applying a penalty of imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or a fine not exceeding $5,000 or both.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB332 | Enroll | Altering the definition of "health care provider" for the purposes of provisions of law governing the confidentiality of medical records to include comprehensive crisis response centers, crisis stabilization centers, and crisis treatment centers; pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB447 | Engross | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, beginning January 1, 2021, to provide services for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome under c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Third Reading Passed 45-0 |
| MD | HB748 | Enroll | Codifying the Bikeways Network Program; specifying that the Program is to provide grant support for bicycle network development activities; requiring the Department of Transportation to establish application and eligibility criteria for the Program; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB749 | Enroll | Authorizing a dental hygienist who complies with certain provisions of the Act to prescribe certain types of prescription or over-the-counter fluoride preparations, topical antimicrobial oral rinses, and up to a 600 mg dose of ibuprofen every 6 hours...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB847 | Enroll | Establishing the State Coordinator for Autism Strategy in the Department of Disabilities and the Advisory Stakeholder Group on Autism-Related Needs; requiring the State Coordinator, in consultation with the Advisory Stakeholder Group, to identify and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB596 | Enroll | Altering the eligibility requirements for the Edward T. and Mary A. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program and the Jean B. Cryor Memorial Scholarship Program by removing the residency requirement for certain categories of individuals; altering the requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB889 | Enroll | Exempting from the property tax property that is owned by the Maryland Farm Bureau, Inc., and used exclusively for education of the public, encouraging agriculture in the State, assisting in the dissemination of information relating to agriculture, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB837 | Enroll | Altering the purposes of the Cultural and Linguistic Health Care Professional Competency Program; requiring the Program to establish and provide an evidence-based implicit bias training program for health care professionals involved in the perinatal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB915 | Enroll | Requiring certain hospitals to provide each patient with a certain written notice related to outpatient facility fees that are charged for services provided at the hospital that is in a certain form; requiring that certain notices be provided to cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1017 | Enroll | Altering the required contents of the label with which cottage food products must be prepackaged to allow the inclusion of the phone number of the cottage food business and a certain identification number, rather than the address of the cottage food ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB998 | Enroll | Transferring oversight of the Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Physicians and Physician Assistants from the Office of Student Financial Assistance within the Maryland Higher Education Commission to the Maryland Department of Health; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1121 | Enroll | Establishing the Maryland Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Registry and Referral System in the Maryland Department of Health to provide a statewide system through which health care providers can identify and access available inpatient and out...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1539 | Enroll | Establishing the Maryland Efficient Grant Application Council to study and make recommendations to the Governor's Grants Office and the Department of Budget and Management regarding the entire life cycle of a grant and the creation of certain materia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1488 | Enroll | Establishing the Office for the Certified Local Farm Enterprise Program in the Department of Agriculture; establishing the Certified Local Farm Enterprise Program in the Office to encourage certain units to try to achieve an overall percentage goal o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1571 | Enroll | Providing that the assessment of a certain fee by the State Health Services Cost Review Commission for funding the Hospital Employees Retraining Fund is to be in the case of a hospital closure, merger, or full delicensure; altering the circumstances ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB619 | Enroll | Prohibiting, on or after October 1, 2021, the use of Class B fire-fighting foam that contain intentionally added PFAS chemicals for certain testing or training purposes; providing that the Act does not restrict the manufacture, sale, or distribution ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB286 | Enroll | Altering the stakeholders required to be included in meetings convened under the Maternal Mortality Review Program to include families of women who have experienced near maternal death, a maternal death, or certain challenges during pregnancy or wome...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB870 | Enroll | Requiring the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission, not the Maryland Department of Health, to administer the Compassionate Use Fund; prohibiting the Commission from imposing certain fees during the two years immediately following the issuan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB947 | Enroll | Authorizing the State Board of Dental Examiners to issue a cease and desist order for certain violations; increasing certain penalties for certain acts related to the unauthorized practice of dentistry or dental hygiene; altering from a misdemeanor t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB817 | Enroll | Requiring a certain unit of State government proposing a regulation affecting small businesses to include a certain certification stating whether a certain comparable regulation has been adopted by a unit of local government in a certain economic imp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB409 | Enroll | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health on or before January 1, 2021, to revise its regulations regarding school-based health centers that may participate in the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to include school-based health centers that have...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB978 | Enroll | Requiring, on or after July 1, 2021, pharmacy services administrative organizations to register with the Maryland Insurance Commissioner before providing certain services in the State; requiring certain applicants to file an application on a certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1169 | Enroll | Requiring the Health Services Cost Review Commission to establish a Community Benefit Reporting Workgroup; requiring the Commission to adopt certain regulations relating to the community health needs of nonprofit hospitals and reporting by nonprofit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1122 | Enroll | Excluding public institutions of higher education from certain provisions of law governing protection of information by government agencies; requiring public institutions of higher education to review and designate certain systems as systems of recor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB583 | Enroll | Authorizing a certain bidder, contractor, or subcontractor to demonstrate the payment of certain employee health care expenses in a certain manner on or before July 1, 2021; altering the definition of "subcontractor" for the purposes of certain provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1273 | Enroll | Requiring a pharmacy benefits manager to allow a pharmacy or pharmacist to withdraw and resubmit certain claims within a certain number of days after a preliminary audit report is delivered or, if a pharmacy or pharmacist requests an internal audit, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1307 | Enroll | Prohibiting a pharmacy benefits manager from requiring a certain pharmacy or pharmacist to obtain certain credentialing as a condition for participating in a certain network with certain frequency or charging a pharmacy or pharmacist a certain fee; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1150 | Enroll | Requiring the Department of Budget and Management to use a reverse auction, as provided for in certain provisions of law established by the Act, to select a pharmacy benefits manager or other entity to administer the State Rx Program; requiring the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB12 | Enroll | Altering the eligibility for a certain veteran to reside at a home for veterans that is supervised by the Department of Veterans Affairs to include a veteran who has an honorable discharge from active service with a uniformed service of the United St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB171 | Enroll | Altering a certain prohibition against interfering with, injuring, tampering with, or destroying a horse used for a certain purpose to prohibit a person from interfering with, injuring, tampering with or destroying an equine used for a certain purpos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB206 | Enroll | Authorizing a certain unaccompanied minor in need of shelter to consent to shelter and supportive services under certain circumstances; authorizing an unaccompanied minor who is a parent to consent to shelter and supportive services for the minor's c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB231 | Enroll | Expanding the housing policy of the State to include providing for fair housing to all citizens regardless of source of income; stating the Act seeks to deconcentrate poverty by providing additional opportunities for tenants utilizing public subsidie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB310 | Enroll | Requiring the University of Maryland, Baltimore to study the health effects of air traffic noise on communities near Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport since the implementation of the Next Generation Air Transportation Syste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB506 | Enroll | Exempting spouses and financially dependent children of active duty members of the United States armed forces from paying nonresident tuition at a public institution of higher education in the State if certain requirements are met at the time of acce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB617 | Enroll | Authorizing a parent or legal guardian of a medical cannabis patient under the age of 18 years to designate not more than two additional adults to be a caregiver, in addition to the parent or legal guardian; specifying that the definition of "caregi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB512 | Enroll | Authorizing certain controlled dangerous substance prescriptions to be dispensed on an electronic prescription; requiring, except under certain circumstances, a certain health practitioner to issue a prescription for a controlled dangerous substance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB503 | Enroll | Requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a dependent child of a service member relocating to the State on military orders to enroll in a school in the county in accordance with certain provisions of law; requiring a county superintendent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB604 | Enroll | Renaming the Maryland Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped to be the Maryland Library for the Blind and Print Disabled; and altering the appointed membership of the Maryland State Library Board to include a blind patron of the Maryland Li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB557 | Enroll | Requiring that motor scooter and electric low speed scooter sharing companies include on each motor scooter or electric low speed scooter made available to the public an embossed tactile display with contact information through which an individual wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1226 | Engross | Requiring that a school bus be routed with the intent that the number of pupils on the bus does not exceed the manufacturer's rated seating capacity for the bus; and providing that if an emergency or temporary situation causes the number of pupils on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1444 | Enroll | Defining "race", for the purposes of certain laws prohibiting discrimination, to include certain traits associated with race, including hair texture and certain hairstyles; and defining "protective hairstyle" as a hairstyle including braids, twists, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB781 | Enroll | Altering the circumstances under which certain entities are required to provide coverage for certain expenses arising from in vitro fertilization procedures; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB106 | Enroll | Increasing the cap, from 2 to 4 years, that an applicant for a mortician or funeral director license may spend as an apprentice except under certain circumstances; requiring certain applicants and licensed apprentices to submit to the Maryland State ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB56 | Enroll | Establishing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Reconstruction Advisory Group for the purpose of providing the Maryland Transportation Authority with an independent, citizen-informed perspective on the Authority's operations at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB631 | Enroll | Repealing the requirement that the Secretary of Health make certain recommendations for the appointment of certain members of the State Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators after consulting with certain associations and societies; and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB852 | Enroll | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from applying a deductible, a copayment, or coinsurance to coverage for certain preventive care screening services for prostate cancer; and applying th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB547 | Enroll | Establishing the Maryland Children's Service Animal Program in the Maryland Department of Health to serve the needs of children with a history of trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, or who have been diagnosed with a certain disability and special...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB935 | Enroll | Requiring the Secretary of Health to establish through regulations a provision requiring an ambulatory surgical facility to ensure that a an anesthesia practitioner is not precluded from providing the highest level of anesthesia support that may be r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
