| 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 | HB571 | Pass | Authorizing a holder of certain Class C licenses in Anne Arundel County to sell beer, wine, and liquor to certain individuals for on-premises consumption during events held at the licensed premises; and requiring an outside group to obtain a per diem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 796 |
| MD | HB1281 | Pass | Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Anne Arundel County to issue a limited special event permit to holders of certain alcoholic beverages licenses; and authorizing a permit holder to provide music, dancing, and other legal forms of ent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 842 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| MD | HB1292 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 648 |
| MD | HB1474 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 649 |
| MD | HB1478 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 748 |
| MD | HB1301 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 612 |
| MD | HB757 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 639 |
| MD | HB56 | Veto | Requiring the State Department of Education, in coordination with the Department of General Services and the Department of Agriculture, to establish a program to procure, when funding is available, local food for local school systems with preference ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-16
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | HB333 | Veto | 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] | 2025-05-16
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | HB384 | Veto | Establishing the Maryland Disability Service Animal Program in the Department of Disabilities to select one or more nonprofit training entities to participate in the Program and provide additional funding mechanisms to assist eligible individuals in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-16
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | HB869 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 482 |
| MD | HB448 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 254 |
| MD | HB466 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 259 |
| MD | HB265 | Pass | Altering the eligibility criteria for Higher Education Loan Assistance Grants under the Maryland Dent-Care Program to include part-time employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 356 |
| MD | HB455 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 252 |
| MD | HB938 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 331 |
| MD | HB1069 | Pass | Prohibiting the use of discretionary clauses in life insurance policies, health insurance policies, annuity contracts, and health maintenance organization contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 396 |
| MD | HB699 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 270 |
| MD | HB1481 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 393 |
| MD | HB509 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 411 |
| MD | HB1007 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 394 |
| MD | HB535 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 410 |
