| MD | HB738 | Pass | Providing that a unit of State government may not purchase, lease, contract for, or rent an information technology service or product unless consistent with the master plan, as determined by the Secretary of Information Technology; providing that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 845 |
| MD | HB443 | Pass | Altering the statement that must be included on a baby food product label if the baby food product has been tested for toxic heavy metals for the purpose of changing the term included on the label from "toxic heavy metal" to "toxic element".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 713 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB871 | Pass | Altering the definition of "community benefit" to include a community health worker workforce program which is intended to provide services to patients of a nonprofit hospital and to improve health outcomes; authorizing a nonprofit hospital and a com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 752 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 legisla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 672 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB728 | Pass | Altering the allowable uses of the Opioid Restitution Fund to provide funds for the operating expenses and personnel costs for investigations, enforcement actions, and other activities conducted by the Opioids Enforcement Unit within the Office of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 700 |
| MD | HB1142 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Interested Parties Advisory Group to ensure adequate access to applicable home- and community-based services in the State; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide certain support to the Advisory Group; and req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 754 |
| MD | HB1244 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration Waiver Advisory Council to advise and provide recommendations to the Developmental Disabilities Administration on system design, service delivery, and quality enhancement strategies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 756 |
| MD | HB1083 | Pass | Requiring the Behavioral Health Advisory Council and the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access, through its workgroup, to implement Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment requirements; requiring the workgroup to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 687 |
| MD | HB1066 | Pass | Requiring the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access to establish a workgroup on the improvement of health, social, and economic outcomes related to substance use; requiring the workgroup to make recommendations on changes to State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 763 |
| 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 | 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 | HB1143 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Collaborative to Improve Children's Oral Health Through School-Based Programs to study and make recommendations on ways to improve school-based dental programs; and requiring the Collaborative to submit an interim report by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 753 |
| 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 | 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 | 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; and altering the period of time in which certain carriers are required to accept or deny ...
[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 | 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 |
