| MD | HB132 | Veto | Expanding the eligibility requirements for the Robotics Grant Program to include certain nonprofit organizations providing certain youth with an out-of-school time experience that focuses on personal and workforce development, to support existing rob...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB364 | Veto | Prohibiting health care practitioners and certain students and trainees from performing certain examinations on a patient who is under anesthesia or unconscious unless informed consent has been obtained from the patient, the examination is within the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB898 | Veto | Authorizing a trustee to provide notice to a person under the Maryland Trust Act by first-class mail, personal delivery, or delivery to the person's delivery address; requiring a trustee to receive authorization in writing from a person entitled to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB931 | Veto | Repealing a provision of law exempting certain offices from certificate of need requirements under certain circumstances; providing that a certificate of need is required before the type or scope of any health care service is changed if the health ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB81 | Veto | Altering eligibility for a credit authorized against the county or municipal corporation property tax for the surviving spouses, who are at least 65 years of age, of certain veterans; providing that surviving spouses who are under the age of 65 and h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB71 | Veto | Requiring the State Board of Elections, in consultation with the Department of Information Technology, to make publicly available on the Internet each meeting agenda made available at least 24 hours in advance of each meeting, live video streaming, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB761 | Veto | Altering the duties of the Statewide Steering Committee on Services for Adults with Sickle Cell Disease to include the provision of certain resources for detecting sickle cell disease and supporting individuals with sickle cell disease; authorizing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB155 | Pass | Increasing the caps on the percentages of certain costs for the construction, acquisition, renovation, and equipping of community mental health facilities, addiction facilities, and developmental disabilities facilities for which State grants can be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 385 |
| MD | HB589 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to enter into a contract with an independent auditor as soon as practicable to conduct an audit of certain pharmacy benefits managers for the purpose of determining the amount of Medicaid funds used t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 534 |
| MD | HB738 | Pass | Altering a certain provision of law to provide that a general license to practice dental hygiene authorizes the licensee to practice dental hygiene under the general supervision of a licensed dentist in certain facilities, rather than only in a long-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 399 |
| MD | HB759 | Pass | Prohibiting, except for certain specialty drugs, a pharmacy benefits manager from requiring that a beneficiary use a specific pharmacy or entity to fill a prescription if the pharmacy benefits manager or a corporate affiliate has an ownership interes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 550 |
| MD | HB754 | Pass | Providing that certain provisions of the Act apply to pharmacy benefits managers that contract with managed care organizations in the same manner as they apply to pharmacy benefits managers that contract with carriers; prohibiting a certain contract ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 400 |
| MD | HB1098 | Pass | Altering the contents of the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange Fund; authorizing the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange, in consultation with the Maryland Insurance Commissioner and as approved by the Board of Trustees of the Exchange, to submit a waive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 401 |
| MD | HB924 | Pass | Authorizing a licensed physician, under certain circumstances and in accordance with certain regulations, to delegate certain duties to a registered cardiovascular invasive specialist assisting in the physician's performance of a fluoroscopy; establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 445 |
| MD | HB1122 | Pass | Requiring that regulations adopted under certain provisions of law regulating behavioral health programs include provisions authorizing a psychiatric nurse practitioner to serve as a medical director of a certain outpatient mental health center, incl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 481 |
| MD | HB911 | Pass | Establishing the Workgroup to Study Shelter and Supportive Services for Unaccompanied Homeless Minors; requiring the Senate Chair and House Chair of the Joint Committee on Ending Homelessness to serve as cochairs of the Workgroup; requiring the Workg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 553 |
| MD | HB47 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health to revise no later than August 1, 2019, the Maryland School-Based Health Center Standards to repeal the requirements that a school-based health center have a medical di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 444 |
| MD | HB193 | Pass | Altering a certain requirement that a life insurer include, in a certain manner, a certain statement on an application or an endorsement for a policy of life insurance on the life of a minor to allow the life insurer to include the statement on a cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 533 |
| MD | HB638 | Pass | Altering the date of the termination provisions relating to statutory and regulatory authority of the State Board of Physicians and certain allied health advisory committees to June 1, 2020; altering the date of the evaluation provision relating to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 419 |
| MD | HB829 | Pass | Prohibiting a carrier from rejecting a provider who provides community-based health services for an accredited program solely because the provider is a licensed graduate social worker, licensed master social worker, licensed graduate alcohol and drug...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 551 |
| MD | HB25 | Pass | Requiring, instead of authorizing, the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to review prescription monitoring data for indications of a possible misuse or abuse of a monitored prescription drug; requiring the Program to report the possible misuse or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 531 |
| MD | HB1274 | Pass | Establishing the Opioid Restitution Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund which consists of all revenue received by the State from any source resulting, directly or indirectly, from any judgement against or settlement with, opioid manufacturers, opioid ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 537 |
| MD | HB646 | Pass | Altering the frequency, from at least once every 5 years to on or before October 1 each year, at which the Maryland Health Care Commission is required to adopt a State health plan; requiring the State health plan to be consistent with the Maryland Al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 415 |
| MD | HB932 | Pass | Authorizing a trustee to divide a trust into two or more separate trusts or consolidate two or more trusts into a single trust if a beneficiary does not object in writing within 30 days after the trustee provided notice; and requiring a trustee to di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 498 |
| MD | HB605 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, under certain circumstances, to include psychiatric nurse practitioners who are providing Assertive Community Treatment or mobile treatment services to certain Maryland Medical Assistance Program recipient...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 479 |
| MD | HB592 | Pass | Altering the basic rights afforded to each resident of a comprehensive care facility and an extended care facility; requiring certain individuals to pursue certain assistance from the medical assistance program in a certain manner; requiring a facili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 545 |
| MD | HB17 | Pass | Authorizing an institution of higher education, a related medical facility, or an affiliated biomedical research firm to file with the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission a registration to purchase medical cannabis for the purpose of condu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 456 |
| MD | HB145 | Pass | Requiring each administrator of a hospital to provide patients with a certain patient's bill of rights; requiring each administrator of a hospital to provide certain patients with an interpreter, a translator, or other accommodation to provide assist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 285 |
| MD | HB178 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Stadium Authority to provide for the renovation of the Ocean City Convention facility; increasing, from $17,340,000 to $24,500,000, the amount the Board of Public Works may approve for the issuance of certain bonds related to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 217 |
| MD | HB454 | Pass | Requiring the Comptroller to publish on the Comptroller's website a comprehensive list of tangible personal property and services the sale or use of which is subject to the sales and use tax; and requiring the Comptroller to update the list at least ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 257 |
| MD | HB427 | Pass | Requiring the Behavioral Health Administration to allow an eligible individual to request enrollment into a certain outpatient civil commitment pilot program; requiring the Administration to allow an immediate family member of an eligible individual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 360 |
| MD | HB481 | Pass | Reclassifying, as a felony instead of a misdemeanor, the crime of selling, bartering, trading, or offering to sell, barter, or trade a minor for money, property, or anything else of value.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 365 |
| MD | HB542 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Study Crime Classification and Penalties; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations on certain issues related to the classification ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 372 |
| MD | HB251 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Aging to make grants to certain nonprofit organizations and area agencies on aging to expand and establish certain aging-in-place programs for seniors; requiring the Department to publicize the availability of the grants...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 308 |
| MD | HB570 | Pass | Requiring that regulations adopted under certain provisions of law regulating behavioral health programs include provisions authorizing a behavioral health program licensed as an outpatient mental health center to satisfy any regulatory requirement t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 274 |
| MD | HB127 | Pass | Requiring certain health benefit plans and certain carriers to provide a special enrollment period during which individuals who become pregnant may enroll in a health benefit plan; establishing a 90-day duration for the special enrollment period begi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 355 |
| MD | HB471 | Pass | Repealing certain provisions of law requiring a therapeutically certified optometrist to refer a certain patient to an ophthalmologist under certain circumstances; repealing the authority of a therapeutically certified optometrist to prescribe certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 344 |
| MD | HB466 | Pass | Requiring the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to provide prescription monitoring data to the Office of the Attorney General on issuance of a subpoena to further a bona fide existing investigation; requiring the Program to provide prescription mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 364 |
| MD | HB522 | Pass | Providing that certain regulations adopted by the Maryland Department of Health establishing a certain licensing system is a rescindable, rather than nonrescindable, alternative to certain regulation; extending, from 14 to 30, the number of consecuti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 230 |
| MD | HB1090 | Pass | Declaring that the General Assembly finds that 9-1-1 specialists are key members of the team of public safety personnel; repealing references to the term "9-1-1 public safety telecommunicator" and substituting references to the term "9-1-1 specialist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 299 |
| MD | HB397 | Pass | Requiring the Emergency Number Systems Board to establish certain minimum standards for records retention guidelines for 9-1-1 audio, video, text messages, and data; requiring the Board to establish minimum standards for certain 9-1-1 systems that en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 301 |
| MD | HB527 | Pass | Altering the definition of "cottage food product" to include nonhazardous food, as specified in regulations adopted by the Maryland Department of Health, that is sold in the State in accordance with certain laws and regulations to retail food stores ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 370 |
| MD | HB1124 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Budget and Management to provide certain units with training on the preparation of certain economic analyses; requiring a certain promulgating unit to establish an electronic registry and to post on the registry a proposed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 212 |
| MD | HB135 | Pass | Authorizing a court to order a defendant convicted of a charge of animal cruelty under the Act, as a condition of sentencing, to participate in and pay for psychological counseling and to pay, in addition to any other fines and costs, all reasonable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 61 |
| MD | HB181 | Pass | Altering prohibited actions relating to electronic harassment of minors; prohibiting a person from maliciously engaging in an electronic communication if the electronic communication, as part of a series of communications, has the effect of intimidat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 27 |
| MD | HB307 | Pass | Establishing a Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission; authorizing the staff member provided by the Office of the Attorney General to issue certain subpoenas; requiring the Commission to hold certain public meetings in each county wher...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 41 |
| MD | HB331 | Pass | Repealing the termination date for certain provisions of law applicable to the registration and authorized use of farm area motor vehicles, including a provision increasing from 10 miles to 25 miles the radius from a farm within which a person may op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 174 |
| MD | HJ9 | Enroll | Designating June 28 as Freedom of the Press Day in Maryland to memorialize the lives lost on June 28, 2018, at the Capital Gazette offices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Signed by the President and the Speaker - Joint Resolution 1 |
| MD | HB707 | Pass | Prohibiting an individual from committing certain drunk or drugged driving offenses if the individual has been convicted previously for certain other crimes under certain circumstances; establishing certain penalties; and increasing certain penalties...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 20 |
| MD | HB1428 | Pass | Requiring, by May 31, 2019, the Board of Directors of the University of Maryland Medical System Corporation to adopt a certain conflict of interest policy; requiring annual financial disclosures; requiring the Board to ensure that the Corporation con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 19 |
