| MD | HB334 | Pass | Establishing the Workgroup on Universal Newborn Nurse Home Visiting Services; requiring the Workgroup to compile updated participant data and expenditure per participant from the home visiting programs currently operating in the State, compare the da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 719 |
| MD | HB406 | Pass | Altering the appointment process for licensed hearing aid dispenser members of the State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists by requiring the Board to notify all licensed hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 739 |
| MD | HB500 | Pass | Authorizing the Secretary of General Services to delegate certain powers and duties to the Chief Procurement Officer; altering the authority of the Department of General Services to engage in or control procurement of certain equipment and services; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 601 |
| MD | HB666 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage in accordance with the most recent guidelines issued by the American ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 684 |
| MD | HB819 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Stadium Authority, Morgan State University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and Baltimore City Community College to establish a certain preference program for certain procurements; authorizing the establishment of a certain e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 737 |
| MD | HB798 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Office of Overdose Response, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and maintain an interactive dashboard on Opioid Restitution Fund spending to share prescription opioid-related settlement informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 690 |
| MD | HB1146 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System to have a State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, rather than a crisis communication center, in each jurisdiction; requiring each State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the System t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 659 |
| MD | HB1100 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in collaboration with the Commission on Health Equity, to develop a clear and easy-to-understand graphic data dashboard that includes age-adjusted health disparity data disaggregated by race, ethnicity, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 663 |
| MD | HB1251 | Pass | Requiring certain hospitals to adopt certain policies relating to obstetric services and to provide evidence to the Maryland Department of Health that the hospital has the policies; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide certain polic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 751 |
| MD | HB1344 | Pass | Requiring the Department of General Services to conduct an assessment of facilities owned by the State and operated by the 16 State agencies the Department supports to evaluate whether the facility or a portion of the facility would be suitable to le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 650 |
| MD | HB1222 | Pass | Requiring federal law enforcement officers to notify certain individuals of federal immigration action at certain sensitive locations; prohibiting certain schools, libraries, and units of State or local government that operate at certain sensitive lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 718 |
| MD | HB297 | Pass | Renaming the State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Pilot Program to be the State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Program; repealing the termination date of certain provisions of law that establish and govern the funding for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 721 |
| MD | HB367 | Pass | Prohibiting a health occupations board from requiring additional evidence of English proficiency as a condition for licensure, certification, or registration if an applicant holds a valid, unrestricted license, certification, or registration from ano...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 731 |
| MD | HB995 | Pass | §Establishing the Workgroup to Study the Rise in Adverse Decisions in the State Health Care System to make recommendations to improve State reporting on adverse decisions, reduce the number of adverse decisions, and develop recommendations for legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 672 |
| MD | HB11 | Pass | Repealing the June 30, 2025, termination date for certain provisions of law related to referrals to and reimbursement of specialists and nonphysician specialists who are not part of a carrier's provider panel; prohibiting certain carriers from imposi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 660 |
| MD | HB745 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists to issue a license to practice behavior analysis to qualified applicants within 30 days of receiving the completed application; requiring the State Board to issue a license within 50...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 755 |
| MD | HB553 | Pass | Requiring, beginning on January 1, 2026, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide coverage for self-measured blood pressure monitoring for certain eligible Program recipients; and requiring reimbursement of health care provider and other st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 714 |
| MD | HB331 | Pass | Authorizing the Public Access Ombudsman to delegate to a staff member of the Office of the Public Access Ombudsman any of the powers and duties granted to the Ombudsman that are appropriate to the staff member's training and expertise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 664 |
| MD | HB268 | Pass | Altering provisions of law related to a hospital's financial assistance and collection of debts policies; specifying the percentage by which a hospital is required to reduce a patient's out-of-pocket expenses under certain circumstances; adding to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 693 |
| MD | HB820 | Pass | Requiring that certain carriers, pharmacy benefits managers, and private review agents ensure that artificial intelligence, algorithm, or other software tools are used in a certain manner when used for conducting utilization review.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 747 |
| MD | HB848 | Pass | Requiring that certain adverse decision and grievance decision notices include certain information in a certain manner; requiring that the information regarding criteria and standards for utilization review that a private review agent is required to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 669 |
| MD | HB729 | Pass | Altering the training that the Maryland Department of Health is authorized to provide under the Overdose Response Program to include emphasis on the restoration of breathing, avoiding withdrawal, and compassionate postoverdose support and care; clari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 698 |
| MD | HB936 | Pass | Requiring that a carrier provide notice by certain electronic means, in addition to written notice, of cancellation or nonrenewal of a small group market health benefit plan and include information regarding additional health benefit coverage options...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 744 |
| MD | HB1380 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in coordination with the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems, to adopt regulations establishing minimum perinatal care standards for hospitals that meet or exceed the Maryland Perinat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 709 |
| MD | HB933 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to review the cost reports and other data submitted by each nursing home that participates in the Maryland Medical Assistance Program; and requiring the Department to report the findings resulting from the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 733 |
| MD | HB996 | Pass | Requiring a retailer that prepares, distributes, sells, or exposes for sale a phenibut product to disclose the factual basis on which any representations regarding the phenibut product are made; establishing prohibitions related to the preparation, d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 704 |
| MD | HB974 | Pass | Clarifying the application of certain health insurance preventive services coverage requirements to certain high deductible health plans; and requiring the Insurance Commissioner to enforce certain provisions of law related to preventive services con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 745 |
| MD | HB970 | Pass | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for insulin or an insulin analog used to treat an insured's or enrollee's Type 1, Type 2, or gestat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 688 |
| MD | HB718 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission to monitor and assess the impact of potential and actual federal changes to specified health care programs and to provide recommendations for State and local action to protect ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 696 |
| MD | HB459 | Pass | Requiring counties that offer self-insured employee health benefit plans to provide to firefighters employed by the county coverage for preventive cancer screenings in accordance with certain guidelines; authorizing a county to satisfy the requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 655 |
| MD | HB991 | Pass | Altering the termination date for certain provisions of law governing the Minority Business Enterprise Program and its application to public-private partnerships, offshore wind projects, video lottery terminals, and sports wagering licenses; and alte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 620 |
| MD | HB813 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration and the Maryland Department of Health, in consultation with the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, to convene a workgroup to study and review reimbursement for pharmacists; and requiring the workgro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 730 |
| MD | HB1243 | Pass | 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 is an in-network provider of covered medical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 729 |
| MD | HB1086 | Pass | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, managed care organizations, and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations, if providing coverage for the delivery of anesthesi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 683 |
| MD | HB765 | Pass | Authorizing a hospital, under certain circumstances, to sell the medical debt of patients if the debt is sold to a governmental unit or an entity that is under contract with the unit or a nonprofit organization for the purpose of canceling the debt; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 750 |
| MD | HB424 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Prescription Drug Affordability Stakeholder Council; requiring the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, under certain circumstances, to establish a process for setting upper payment limits for purchases and payor reim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 611 |
| MD | HB838 | Pass | Altering the scope of practice of licensed direct-entry midwives; providing that the practice of direct-entry midwifery is independent and not does not require oversight by another health care practitioner; repealing the requirement that licensed dir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 645 |
| MD | HB1351 | Pass | Altering the providers of certain community-based health services that a carrier is prohibited from rejecting for participation on the carrier's provider panel; altering the period of time in which certain carriers are required to accept or deny cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 746 |
| MD | HB1004 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in partnership with certain entities, to incorporate information regarding treatments approved by the Food and Drug Administration for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and to increase understandin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 681 |
| MD | HB776 | Pass | Repealing obsolete and redundant language in, clarifying language in, and making language consistent across certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Physicians and the regulation of physicians, physician assistants, and allied health pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 676 |
| MD | HB1315 | Pass | Altering the vaccinations that a pharmacist may administer, subject to certain requirements, to an individual of at least a certain age; and altering the vaccinations included in the minimum package of child wellness services for which certain healt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 738 |
| MD | HB1087 | Pass | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for certain prescription drugs prescribed by a treating physician to treat a symptom of or side eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 706 |
| MD | HB1292 | Pass | Renaming "network directory" to be "provider directory" to conform to a certain federal law; altering the time period from 15 to 2 working days within which certain carriers are required to update the information that must be made available in the ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 648 |
| MD | HB1474 | Pass | Establishing a temporary telehealth license to be issued by the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists authorizing the holder to provide clinical professional counseling services only to a student attending an institution of higher edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 649 |
| MD | HB859 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to promote access to health insurance for child care professionals; and requiring the Exchange to conduct a survey, in consultation with the State Department of Education and relevant nonprofit organizat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 679 |
| MD | HB850 | Pass | Establishing the Workgroup on the Creation of a Data Dashboard for Public Work Contracts and Apprentices to study the most efficient and cost-effective method to create a publicly available data dashboard that disaggregates information regarding publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 717 |
| MD | HB1478 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in consultation with certain stakeholders, to submit a report on the feasibility of establishing and maintaining an online directory of home health care providers to certain committees of the General Assem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 748 |
| MD | HB1301 | Pass | Prohibiting the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, the Maryland Children's Health Program, managed care organizations, and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from requiring prior authorizat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 612 |
| MD | HB757 | Pass | Altering the amount the Governor is authorized to include in the annual budget for the Program from $500,000 to at least $1,000,000; and authorizing the Secretary to use up to 20% of Program funds to support research centers, including the University...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 639 |
| MD | HB767 | Pass | Requiring a landlord to provide certain notice to a tenant when a court has issued a warrant of restitution for a failure of a tenant to pay rent, a breach of lease, or a tenant holding over under certain circumstances; establishing certain procedure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 563 |
