| MD | HB514 | Pass | Altering certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners and the practice of chiropractic in the State related to Board membership, licensure of chiropractors, the discipline of chiropractors, and the denial of licenses ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 21 |
| MD | HB573 | Pass | Authorizing the State Board of Dental Examiners to approve a certain course of study for expanded function dental assistant certification; requiring that a course of study for initial dental assistant certification include at least 35 hours of in-per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 23 |
| MD | HB1027 | Pass | Establishing the Workgroup to Study Implementation of an Expanded 3-1-1 Nonemergency System; requiring the Workgroup to review a certain study completed by the Department of Information Technology in order to establish a plan to implement the recomme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 17 |
| MD | HB698 | Enroll
75% | Requiring county governments to make a certain report by July 1 each year to the Department of Planning on the amount, use, and location of the use of county development impact fees, surcharges, and excise taxes; and requiring county governments to m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB775 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Commissioner of Correction to notify certain elected representatives whenever an incarcerated individual dies in a Division of Correction facility; and requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to adopt certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB857 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing a person who is authorized by the Department of Natural Resources to hunt deer and who wounds a deer during legal hunting hours to pursue and kill the deer after legal hunting hours using the means authorized for the applicable hunting se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB820 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1069 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting the use of discretionary clauses in life insurance policies, health insurance policies, annuity contracts, and health maintenance organization contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB996 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB699 | Enroll
75% | Defining "honorable discharge" with respect to any State program of benefits, rights, or privileges applicable to a veteran to include certain discharges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB813 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1086 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB871 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1244 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1351 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1007 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting insurance carriers that offer life insurance or disability insurance policies or contracts from unfairly discriminating against an individual by taking certain actions relating to coverage based on medical information; prohibiting certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1292 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1474 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1301 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB757 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB962 | Enroll
75% | Specifying that the scope of the Maryland Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Registry and Referral System includes private and State inpatient and outpatient mental health and substance use services; requiring the Maryland Department of Health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB738 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB970 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB448 | Enroll
75% | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; requiring the Secretary of Veterans and Military Families to develop certain policies related to life transitions of veterans, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1142 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1146 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB819 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB509 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Maryland Inventory of Cemeteries and Burial Sites Workgroup for the purpose of studying issues related to the establishment and maintenance of a State cemetery inventory system; and requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB894 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Secretary of Natural Resources to issue an incidental taking permit for the Indiana bat, the northern long-eared bat, the tricolor bat, or the eastern small-footed bat if an applicant submits a certain conservation plan and the Secret...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB987 | Enroll
75% | Establishing a Class B-OB-CRD (office building - commercial revitalization district) beer, wine, and liquor license in Baltimore County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore County to issue the license to an establishment that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB406 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB429 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Secretary of Health, on request of a county, to delegate to the county the authority to augment State nursing home survey staff using county funds under certain circumstances; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to initiate a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB562 | Enroll
75% | Altering from four to three the number of members elected from each councilmanic district of Baltimore County to the Baltimore County Republican Party Central Committee; and altering the number of members elected from each legislative district of Bal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB869 | Enroll
75% | Repealing the limitation on the period during which the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide reimbursement for certain health care servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB848 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-03
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB466 | Enroll
75% | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of law governing public health, the regulation of health occupations, and ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB32 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish a forensic review board at facilities that have charge of persons who have been committed to the facility as not criminally responsible; authorizing a forensic review board to make recommendati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1481 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Adapted Vehicle Access Pilot Program to provide adapted vehicles to individuals who require a mobility aid; and requiring the Department of Disabilities to implement and administer the Program, request, apply for, and facilitate cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1478 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1200 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to provide a certain property tax credit to certain judicial officers, surviving spouses, or cohabitants; requiring the county or muni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB745 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB936 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB938 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the appointment of an alternate subscriber member to the governing body of a continuing care provider; and authorizing the alternate subscriber member to attend all meetings of the governing body and vote only if the regular subscriber is u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1243 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB798 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB333 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Healthcare Ecosystem Stakeholder Cybersecurity Workgroup to develop strategies to prevent cybersecurity disruptions to the healthcare ecosystem, ensure the continuous delivery of essential healthcare ecosystem services, and enhance r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB776 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1087 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB535 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Abandoned and Neglected Cemeteries Fund to provide for the care, preservation, maintenance, and restoration of abandoned and neglected cemeteries in the State; authorizing the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1558 | Intro
25% | Altering the entities with respect to which certain officials or persons acting on behalf of certain officials are prohibited from taking certain actions related to fundraising during a regular session of the General Assembly; and prohibiting certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
