| MD | HB124 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a seller or assignee of certain residential property to rescind a contract of sale without penalty at any time before closing if a certain seller does not provide a certain notice; establishing that an assignee is entitled to a refund of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| 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] | 2025-03-25
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| 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] | 2025-03-25
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| 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] | 2025-03-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB11 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-25
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB553 | Engross
50% | Requiring, beginning on January 1, 2026, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide coverage for self-measured blood pressure monitoring for certain eligible Program recipients; and requiring reimbursement of health care provider and other st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| 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] | 2025-03-25
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB268 | Engross
50% | Altering provisions of law related to a hospital's financial assistance and collection of debts policies; specifying the percentage by which a hospital is required to reduce a patient's out-of-pocket expenses under certain circumstances; adding to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB514 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-25
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB334 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Workgroup on Universal Newborn Nurse Home Visiting Services; requiring the Workgroup to compile updated participant data and expenditure per participant from the home visiting programs currently operating in the State, compare the da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB573 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-25
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB666 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage in accordance with the most recent guidelines issued by the American ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| 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] | 2025-03-25
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB838 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-25
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB859 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to promote access to health insurance for child care professionals; and requiring the Exchange to conduct a survey, in consultation with the State Department of Education and relevant nonprofit organizat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation 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] | 2025-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 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 | 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 | HB300 | Engross
50% | Altering the rate at which nonprofit organizations receiving State-funded grants or contracts may be reimbursed for indirect costs to match the rate established under relevant federal guidelines; and requiring the Department of Budget and Management ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation 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 | HB56 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation 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] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1082 | Engross
50% | Establishing the State-Based Health Insurance Subsidies Program to provide subsidies to individuals in the State to mitigate the impact of a reduction in certain federal advance premium tax credits for calendar years 2026 through 2028; and requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB662 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a procurement officer to award an indefinite quantity contract under certain circumstances; requiring the Board of Public Works to adopt certain regulations relating to the assignment of work under an indefinite quantity contract includin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation 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 | 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] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
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] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
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] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB304 | Engross
50% | Requiring a unit of State government to provide a certain debriefing of a contract award to certain persons on request; requiring each procurement contract to include a clause pertaining to certain contract modifications related to changes in law; al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB819 | Engross
50% | 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 a certain price preference for b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB500 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Secretary of General Services to delegate certain powers and duties to the Chief Procurement Officer; altering the authority of the Department of General Services to engage in or control procurement of certain equipment and services; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation 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 | 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 | HB1315 | Engross
50% | Altering the vaccinations that a pharmacist may administer, subject to certain requirements, to an individual of at least a certain age; altering the vaccinations included in the minimum package of child wellness services for which certain health ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 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 | HB1499 | Engross
50% | Requiring a procurement contract for 3 years or more in duration and valued at greater than $1,000,000 for construction or security services to include a clause requiring contract modification for increased costs for compensation and benefits as a re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB591 | Engross
50% | Increasing from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for the prosecution or suit for enforcement of local consumer protection codes for which equitable relief, a fine, or a penalty is provided.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Apr 1 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1367 | Engross
50% | Establishing a civil penalty not exceeding $50,000 for a person who falsifies information that is submitted in a report of the results of lead-contaminated dust testing or visual inspection of an affected property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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 | 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
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
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 or a nonprofit organization for the purpose of canceling the debt; ...
[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 |
