| MD | HB614 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Aging to oversee long-term care and train the staff of long-term care and dementia care navigation programs; requiring each area agency to establish a long-term care and dementia care navigation program; and requiring the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 668 |
| MD | HB480 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs to bury the eligible spouse or dependent of a veteran in a State veterans' cemetery without charge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 615 |
| MD | HB683 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to issue an apprentice hunting license to a person under the age of 17 years who has previously been issued an apprentice hunting license under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 555 |
| MD | HB1096 | Pass | Altering a certain exemption from property tax for real property that is located in Baltimore County that is owned by an incorporated, nonprofit fire company or rescue squad by providing that the exemption applies only if the property is used or will...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 532 |
| MD | HB63 | Pass | Altering the Certified Local Farm Enterprise Program to be the Certified Local Farm and Fish Program; expanding the purpose of the Program to include food from certified Chesapeake invasive species providers in the overall percentage goal of 20% of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 576 |
| MD | HB470 | Pass | Prohibiting the setting on fire or burning of oriented strand board for certain fire-fighting training; and establishing an administrative penalty not exceeding $500 for a first violation of the Act and a civil penalty not exceeding $1,000 for a seco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 580 |
| MD | HB676 | Pass | Making certain provisions of law governing cemeteries applicable to pet cemeteries; providing that a certain registered cemeterian, registered crematory operator, or permit holder who sells or offers to sell to the public certain services for pet rem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 591 |
| MD | HB319 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Agriculture, in consultation with certain State and federal agencies, to study the use of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in pesticides in the State; and requiring the Department to report its findings...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 486 |
| MD | HB420 | Pass | Requiring that the Health Services Cost Review Commission exercise its authority to consider certain standards when determining the reasonableness of certain rates in a manner that is consistent with the all-payer model contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 373 |
| MD | HB675 | Pass | Establishing the Commission to Study Trauma Center Funding in Maryland to study the adequacy of trauma center funding across the State for operating, capital, and workforce costs; and requiring the Commission to reports its findings and recommendatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 341 |
| MD | HB302 | Pass | Establishing the Rare Disease Advisory Council to study and make recommendations on matters relating to individuals with rare diseases in the State; requiring the Council to convene public hearings, make inquiries, and solicit comments from the publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 360 |
| MD | HB234 | Pass | Authorizing the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners to take disciplinary action against an applicant or a licensee for failing to comply with a Board order; authorizing the Board to grant a stay of enforcement of a Board order in accordance with th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 363 |
| MD | HB278 | Pass | Defining "clinical nurse specialist" and "practice as a clinical nurse specialist" for the purpose of authorizing clinical nurse specialists to prescribe drugs and durable medical equipment under regulations adopted by the State Board of Nursing; des...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 328 |
| MD | HB571 | Pass | Authorizing the Attorney General to direct that an Opioid Restitution Fund Advisory Council committee be formed if required by a court or administrative order or settlement agreement entered into by the Attorney General; requiring the Maryland Depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 356 |
| MD | HB172 | Pass | Authorizing the State Board of Physicians to approve licensed athletic trainers to perform dry needling, a certain type of intramuscular manual therapy involving the insertion of one or more solid needles into the muscle and related tissues to effect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 302 |
| MD | HB418 | Pass | Establishing the Behavioral Health Workforce Investment Fund to provide reimbursement for costs associated with educating, training, certifying, recruiting, placing, and retaining behavioral health professionals and paraprofessionals; and requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 287 |
| MD | HB456 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Pharmacy to adopt regulations necessary to ensure that individuals who are blind, visually impaired, or otherwise print disabled have appropriate access to prescription labels, bag tags, and medical guides; requiring the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 280 |
| MD | HB977 | Pass | Establishing the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in the Maryland Department of Health to advance forensic science and carry out other duties as provided by law; renaming the State Postmortem Examiners Commission to be the Postmortem Examiners Ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 268 |
| MD | HB1156 | Pass | Providing that a therapy management contract may be entered into in writing or orally; requiring, if a therapy management contract is entered into orally, the parties to the therapy management contract to reduce the contract to writing within 30 days...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 399 |
| MD | HB817 | Pass | Requiring the Division of State Documents to make at least the 15 most recent issues of the Maryland Register available to the public for online searching; altering the requirements for a unit of State government to submit certain proposed or emergen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 350 |
| MD | HB1159 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which a dentist who is a faculty member at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry and was trained at a foreign dental school must be qualified by the State Board of Dental Examiners to take an examination offe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 326 |
| MD | HB1151 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, the Maryland Children's Health Program, and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for all services rendered to an enrollee by a li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 301 |
| MD | HB374 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Health to adopt regulations for pharmacy benefits managers that contract with managed care organizations that establish requirements for conducting audits of pharmacies or pharmacists; establishing requirements and prohibit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 355 |
| MD | HB322 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to expand access to and provide reimbursement for intensive in-home services, case management, and wraparound services; requiring, beginning in fiscal year 2024, the Behavioral Health Administration to fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 379 |
| MD | HB785 | Pass | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to establish a certain process for requesting an exception to a step therapy or fail-first protocol; prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 365 |
| MD | HB1153 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to adopt regulations that establish certain food service facility standards that are appropriate to residential programs that have less than 17 residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 344 |
| MD | HB815 | Pass | Requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for certain lung cancer diagnostic imaging and limiting the copayment, coinsurance, or deductible that the entities can require for lung canc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 354 |
| MD | HB1217 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage for biomarker testing that is supported by medical and scient...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 323 |
| MD | HB702 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to provide certain information regarding the acquisition of a nursing home to the Office of Health Care Quality; requiring the Secretary of Health to consider the information before taking action regardin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 289 |
| MD | HB611 | Pass | Continuing the State Board of Nursing in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to July 1, 2025, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board; alte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 222 |
| MD | HB245 | Pass | Requiring the Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to include an attestation that all units required to report are represented in its annual report beginning December 31, 2023; requiring the Office to conduct a certain per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 145 |
| MD | HB58 | Pass | Establishing enhanced requirements under the Open Meetings Act for the State Ethics Commission; and requiring the Department of Information Technology to provide technical staff, support, and equipment necessary to livestream the open meetings of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 149 |
| MD | HB328 | Pass | Establishing invoicing and prompt payment requirements for certain State grants; requiring the State to make payment under certain grant agreements within 37 days of the payment becoming due under the agreement or after receiving a proper invoice; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 155 |
| MD | HB382 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health and the Prescription Drug Affordability Board jointly to study certain information regarding the payment of prescription drug claims under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program during calendar years 2021 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 217 |
| MD | HB716 | Pass | Altering the information that must be included in a written statement provided by a managed care organization to a health care provider when retroactively denying reimbursement as a result of coordination of benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 108 |
| MD | HB809 | Pass | Altering to July 1, 2025, the termination date for certain provisions of law governing the Minority Business Enterprise Program and its application to offshore wind projects and video lottery terminals; and altering the date by which certain reports,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 137 |
| MD | HB1051 | Pass | Authorizing an applicant to appeal a certain decision issued by the State Public Information Compliance Board; authorizing a party aggrieved by a final judgment of a circuit court in a proceeding for judicial review of a certain decision of the Board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 156 |
| MD | HB816 | Pass | Requiring the Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to develop a scorecard to evaluate units of State government on the units' performance toward meeting certain participation goals under the Minority Business Enterprise Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 213 |
| MD | HB690 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Board of Directors of the Maryland African American Museum Corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 140 |
| MD | HB161 | Pass | Prohibiting the Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority from issuing bonds beginning June 1, 2023; requiring the Department of Legislative Services to evaluate the Authority providing enough detail for the General Assembly to determine whether th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 68 |
| MD | HB453 | Pass | Authorizing the Board to place a licensee on emeritus status under certain circumstances; requiring the Board, under certain circumstances, to reinstate the license of an individual who is on inactive or emeritus status; exempting licensees who are o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 59 |
| MD | HB26 | Pass | Requiring an individual, in order to be licensed as a psychologist by the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, to have a doctoral degree in psychology from a certain school or university, to have received a postdoctoral respecialization certifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 55 |
| MD | HB19 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists to issue electronic licenses and registrations, except under certain circumstances; requiring the Board, on an applicant's request, to print a paper copy of the verification of licensure or regi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 41 |
| MD | HB238 | Pass | Authorizing the State Board of Massage Therapy Examiners to grant a stay of enforcement of a Board order in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act; prohibiting an order of the Board from being stayed pending judicial review; authorizing the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 56 |
| MD | HB53 | Pass | Codifying the Maryland Statewide Independent Living Council as an instrumentality of the State to submit, monitor, implement, and evaluate the State Plan under the federal Rehabilitation Act in conjunction with Centers for Independent Living in the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 43 |
| MD | HB401 | Pass | Altering the definition of "hearing aid dispensary" to include certain actions taken for the purpose of ordering certain hearing instruments and specifying that certain hearing instruments include prescription hearing aids; altering the definition of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 60 |
| MD | HB429 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Procurement Improvement Council to include the Comptroller and the Attorney General; authorizing certain members to send a designee to attend certain meetings under certain circumstances; and clarifying the duties of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 26 |
| MD | HB774 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health or the Office of Health Care Quality to investigate whether residents in an assisted living program have been subject to neglect, exploitation, or abuse, if the assisted living program is operating without ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 7 |
| MD | HB1244 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim January 27 as Maryland Holocaust Remembrance Day; and requiring the proclamation to include a declaration of the purposes of Maryland Holocaust Remembrance Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 13 |
| MD | HB487 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from adopting certain regulations to implement certain new motor vehicle emissions standards and compliance requirements adopted by the California Air Resources Board unless certain analyses are prepared ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
