| MD | HB455 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Veterans and Military Families to designate a location for an American braille tactile flag to be placed on the grounds of one or more State veterans' cemeteries to honor members of the uniformed services, veterans, and ot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | HB331 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-24
Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | HB1208 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person, beginning on October 1, 2028, from manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in the State food that contains brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, or Red Dye No. 3; and providing cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB820 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB996 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB974 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Insurance Commissioner to enforce certain provisions of law related to preventive services consistent with the recommendations and guidelines in effect on December 31, 2024, set by the United States Preventive Services Task Force, the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB718 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1351 | Engross
50% | Altering the period of time in which certain carriers are required to accept or deny certain social workers, counselors, and psychology associates for participation on the carrier's provider panel to within 60 days after the date a carrier receives a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1292 | Engross
50% | Renaming "network directory" to be "provider directory" to conform to a certain federal law; altering the time period within which certain carriers are required to update the information that must be made available in the carrier's provider directory...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1301 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1222 | Engross
50% | Requiring an employee or agent of a State or local correctional facility and a law enforcement agent to provide certain notice of the release of an individual who is the subject of an active immigration detainer request and has been convicted of a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Apr 1 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB321 | Engross
50% | Altering the definition of "purchaser" for the purpose of certain provisions of State insurance law governing pharmacy benefits managers to exclude certain nonprofit health maintenance organizations; requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1142 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1544 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Law Enforcement Public Service Medal as the highest State honor awarded to law enforcement officers for exceptional public service, valor, and heroism; establishing eligibility requirements for the medal and procedures for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB881 | Engross
50% | Phasing in a requirement that all child support received in a month pass through to a family seeking assistance under the Family Investment Program and prohibiting the consideration of child support in computing the amount of assistance received.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB920 | Engross
50% | Requiring institutions of postsecondary education to submit a report on institutional debt to the Maryland Higher Education Commission by October 1 each year, beginning in 2026; authorizing the Commission to assess a civil penalty, up to $10,000 per ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB995 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB869 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:30 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB848 | Engross
50% | Requiring that certain adverse decision and grievance decision notices include certain information in a certain manner; requiring that certain information submitted to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner be aggregated by zip code; requiring certain c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:30 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1555 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Office of Cemetery Oversight and the State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors to establish and maintain certain online databases and conduct certain inspections; establishing the authority of the Secretary of Health regarding sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1045 | Engross
50% | Updating references to federal law related to family planning services, grandfathered plans, explanation of benefits, summaries of benefits and coverage, medical loss ratios, catastrophic plans, annual limits for cost sharing, prescription drugs, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB765 | Engross
50% | 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 for the purpose of canceling the debt; requiring that a hospital's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB871 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1053 | Engross
50% | Clarifying that a parent of the recipient may provide services for the recipient of self-directed services under certain circumstances; and altering the circumstances under which a family member or legal guardian may provide services for the recipien...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1244 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1066 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1481 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1007 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1473 | Engross
50% | Altering provisions of law relating to equal access to public services for individuals with limited English proficiency to include individuals with disabilities; establishing certain requirements for equal access to public services for certain State ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Apr 3 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1474 | Engross
50% | Authorizing an out-of-state licensed professional counselor to provide clinical professional counseling services to nonresident students enrolled in an institution of higher education in the State under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1478 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB850 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB674 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person, with the intent to conceal a crime, from knowingly and willfully dismembering, destroying, removing, burying, disposing of, or obliterating by any means any portion of human remains; prohibiting a person from aiding or abetting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB744 | Engross
50% | Altering the penalties and points assessments related to the offenses of reckless, negligent, and aggressive driving; and adding certain motor vehicle offenses as elements that may contribute to charges for reckless or aggressive driving.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB905 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to establish and maintain a clinical staffing committee and to implement a clinical staffing plan; requiring each clinical staffing committee to develop a clinical staffing plan; requiring by July 1 e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB930 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care clinical services for individuals in the State; establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1121 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Youth Transitioning From Foster Placement to Successful Adulthood Pilot Program in the Child Care Scholarship Program to assist foster youth in applying for and accessing subsidies in the Program; establishing that the duration of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1198 | Engross
50% | Altering the required location and timeline for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Correction to make certain services available to certain female incarcerated individuals;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1315 | Engross
50% | Altering the vaccinations included in the minimum package of child wellness services for which certain health insurers and nonprofit health service plans are required to provide coverage to include those recommended by the American Academy of Pediatr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB459 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1246 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to include certain discounts, financial assistance payments, product vouchers, and other out-of-pocket expenses made by or on behalf of an insured or enr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB991 | Engross
50% | Altering 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, studies, and gui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB32 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB813 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration and the Maryland Department of Health to convene a workgroup to study and review reimbursement for pharmacists; and requiring the workgroup to submit an interim report by December 31, 2025, and a final ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1243 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1086 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB798 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1027 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB728 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1314 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting in-network health care providers from charging a fee to obtain a prior authorization from a carrier or managed care organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
