| MD | HB572 | Pass | Increasing from $750 to $1,500 the maximum allowable amount of a credit against the State income tax that provides $5 for each bushel of oyster shells recycled during a taxable year; extending the termination date of the credit to June 30, 2021; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 603 |
| MD | HB33 | Pass | Authorizing a certain disabled person to apply for voluntary admission to a mental facility if the person submits a formal written application and either a physician and a psychologist, two physicians, or a physician and a psychiatric nurse practione...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 760 |
| MD | HB1557 | Pass | Requiring a unit to give a certain preference under certain circumstances to a certain resident firm that is licensed or otherwise authorized to provide architectural services or engineering services in the State; requiring a certain nonresident firm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 633 |
| MD | HB908 | Pass | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations that provide certain benefits under certain insurance policies or contracts to provide coverage for certain fertility preservation procedures; providing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 715 |
| MD | HB1480 | Pass | Requiring a certain distributor of controlled dangerous substances to report certain suspicious orders to the Maryland Department of Health and the Office of the Attorney General; authorizing a certain distributor to satisfy a certain reporting oblig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 592 |
| MD | HB1517 | Pass | Requiring the Director of the Behavioral Health Administration by December 1 each year to submit a report on behavioral health services for children and young adults in the State to the Governor and the General Assembly; requiring the Social Services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 693 |
| MD | HB1088 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Information Technology, or the Secretary's designee, by January 1, 2020, to adopt new nonvisual access procurement standards that provide an individual with disabilities with nonvisual access so the individual can acquire t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 631 |
| MD | HB1096 | Pass | Establishing the Veteran Employment and Transition Success Program to provide grants to assist transitioning veterans in obtaining a certification, license, or registration under the Health Occupations Article; requiring the Department of Veterans Af...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 786 |
| MD | HB1682 | Pass | Establishing the Collaborative Care Pilot Program in the Maryland Department of Health to implement a Collaborative Care Model in primary care settings to provide health care services to recipients enrolled in HealthChoice; requiring the Department t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 684 |
| MD | HB281 | Pass | Requiring county boards to require public high schools to offer at least one high-quality computer science course beginning in the 2021-2022 school year; establishing the Maryland Center for Computing Education to identify ways to expand access to hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 358 |
| MD | HB301 | Pass | Providing that, in a prosecution for certain sexual offenses, evidence that the defendant committed sexually assaultive behavior before or after the offense for which the defendant is on trial may be admissible for certain reasons; requiring that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 362 |
| MD | HB431 | Pass | Establishing the Fostering Employment Program to provide employment opportunities for foster care recipients and unaccompanied homeless youth; requiring the Department of Human Services, in coordination with the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 379 |
| MD | HB646 | Pass | Establishing a 5% tolerance from the gross vehicle weight limits for certain vehicles used in certain agricultural activities during harvest time under certain circumstances; and limiting the distance within which a certain vehicle operating under a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 494 |
| MD | HB689 | Pass | Requiring each community college to ensure all student advisors are trained on the unique needs and resources available for students who are veterans, to employ at least one employee who, as a component of the employee's job duties and responsibiliti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 474 |
| MD | HB863 | Pass | Requiring an advanced practice registered nurse who qualifies for certification by the State Board of Nursing by having a multistate licensure privilege under the Nurse Licensure Compact to, at all times, ensure that the Board has certain documentati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 483 |
| MD | HB1074 | Pass | Requiring public institutions of higher education to grant priority registration for courses to certain currently serving members and veterans of the armed forces of the United States; providing that a certain course registration priority applies onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 400 |
| MD | HB1106 | Pass | Altering the definition of "cottage food product" to include certain food sold in the State directly to a consumer from a residence, by personal delivery, or by mail delivery in accordance with certain provisions of law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 491 |
| MD | HB1215 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to make a certain advance payment to a nursing home at the request of the nursing home for uncompensated Maryland Medical Assistance Program services provided to a certain resident; providing that the advan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 445 |
| MD | HB1467 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Health to establish a Sepsis Public Awareness Campaign Workgroup; providing for the membership of the Workgroup; requiring the Workgroup to develop a certain public awareness campaign, identify, review, and evaluate certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 489 |
| MD | HB1532 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Farmers; requiring the Office of Student Financial Assistance in the Maryland Higher Education Commission to assist in the repayment of a higher education loan obtained for tuition, educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 404 |
| MD | HB1473 | Pass | Establishing the Emergency Use Auto-Injectable Epinephrine Program at Institutions of Higher Education; authorizing individuals employed by a food service facility or a recreation and wellness facility at an eligible institution to obtain, store, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 527 |
| MD | HB27 | Pass | Authorizing a life insurer to refuse an application for a policy of life insurance on the life of a minor only under certain circumstances; requiring an application for a policy of life insurance on the life of a minor to include a certain consent an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 430 |
| MD | HB407 | Pass | Requiring a general hospice care program, when providing services in an in-home setting, to establish a written unused prescription medication collection and disposal policy that includes certain provisions; requiring an employee of a general hospice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 439 |
| MD | HB847 | Pass | Requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations that provide certain health insurance benefits under certain insurance policies or contracts to provide coverage for the medically necessary diagnosis, evaluatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 471 |
| MD | HB782 | Pass | Providing that certain money in the Maryland Prepaid College Trust may not be considered money of or be commingled with the Maryland Broker-Dealer College Investment Plan or the Maryland ABLE Program; requiring the Maryland 529 Board to allow the tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 390 |
| MD | HB1437 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which a licensed direct-entry midwife is prohibited from assuming or continuing to take responsibility for a patient's pregnancy and birth care and is required to arrange for the orderly transfer of care of the patien...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 528 |
| MD | HB1349 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Insurance Commissioner to require any additional information from a pharmacy benefits manager that may be reasonably necessary to verify information in a certain application; requiring a pharmacy benefits manager to establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 451 |
| MD | HB1342 | Pass | Altering the training course that the State Ethics Commission is required to provide for regulated lobbyists and prospective regulated lobbyists; prohibiting a certain State official from unlawfully harassing or discriminating against certain individ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 525 |
| MD | HB1582 | Pass | Establishing a State Medical Director for Children Receiving Child Welfare Services in the Department of Human Services; requiring the Director and all personnel under the direct supervision of the Director to have access to all confidential informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 407 |
| MD | HB1132 | Pass | Requiring a carrier that is an insurer, a nonprofit health service plan, or a health maintenance organization, except for a group model health maintenance organization, to ensure in certain standards that certain enrollees have access to local health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 487 |
| MD | HB1558 | Pass | Authorizing, with a certain exception, a pharmacist to dispense, in a single dispensing and exercising the pharmacist's professional judgment, a quantity of a prescription drug that is up to a certain number of authorized dosage units and does not ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 461 |
| MD | HB946 | Pass | Requiring a carrier to provide to an insured under a policy or contract of long-term care insurance a certain contingent benefit upon lapse under certain circumstances; providing that certain benefits of a certain policy or contract of long-term care...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 508 |
| MD | HB1766 | Pass | Extending to December 31, 2024, the termination date of the Senior Prescription Drug Assistance Program; altering the period of time during which the subsidy required under the Program may not exceed a certain amount; repealing the requirement that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 462 |
| MD | HB948 | Pass | Exempting from certain real property recordation, transfer, and excise taxes and certificate of title fees certain transfers of real property and certain vehicles from a revocable trust to a beneficiary of the trust as a result of the death of the se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 316 |
| MD | HB1118 | Pass | Adding daylight fluorescent pink as a color authorized for certain outerwear required to be worn by certain persons performing certain hunting activities; and authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to adopt regulations to define "daylight fl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 181 |
| MD | HB1483 | Pass | Authorizing a court to include in an order appointing a guardian of the person of a disabled person the duty to foster and preserve certain family relationships under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 287 |
| MD | HB1400 | Pass | Providing that participation by certain organizations in the State employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program may not impede, undermine, or conflict with certain obligations or statuses; authorizing an employee of a county board to part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 307 |
| MD | HB1588 | Pass | Prohibiting a local legislative body from granting an amendment to change a certain zoning classification on a certain parcel of land based on a certain finding if the primary reason for the proposed amendment is the existence of a certain energy gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 286 |
| MD | HB242 | Pass | Authorizing a designee of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to administer the Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program Fund; requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs to publish on its website the names of certain donors to the Maryland Veterans S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 153 |
| MD | HB371 | Pass | Repealing a provision that prohibits the Governor from appointing a member of the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland, a member of the Board of Directors of the Medical System Corporation, or an officer or a full-time employee of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 203 |
| MD | HB502 | Pass | Altering the eligibility for a credit authorized against the county or municipal corporation property tax for certain veterans to include certain surviving spouses of certain veterans; and providing that the Act shall be applicable to all taxable yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 309 |
| MD | HB658 | Pass | Requiring the State House Trust to be responsible for the landscaping and construction of Lawyer's Mall; requiring the Trust to disapprove or approve and supervise any proposed improvement, nonemergency repair, or other change to Lawyer's Mall; and p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 279 |
| MD | HB695 | Pass | Authorizing a public body to meet in a closed session to discuss cybersecurity if the public body determines that public discussion would constitute a risk to security assessments or deployments relating to information resources technology, certain n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 304 |
| MD | HB634 | Pass | Establishing the Commission to Advance Next Generation 9-1-1 Across Maryland to study emerging communications technologies and develop a strategy for implementation of Next Generation 9-1-1 services across the State; authorizing the Emergency Number ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 301 |
| MD | HB1159 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Health to publish an annual report on the suicides of veterans and members currently serving in the armed services of the United States; limiting the information in the report to the age, sex, race or ethnicity, nature of s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 154 |
| MD | HB736 | Pass | Prohibiting a pharmacy benefits manager from prohibiting a pharmacy or pharmacist from providing a beneficiary with information regarding the retail price of a prescription drug or the amount of the cost share for a prescription drug for which the be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 217 |
| MD | HB922 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, on or before December 1, 2018, to identify a method for establishing a tip line through which a person may report an individual suspected of prescribing medication or overprescribing medication in violatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 211 |
| MD | HB1452 | Pass | Requiring a certain authorized provider to attest on the registration form to the Maryland Department of Health that the authorized provider completed 2 hours of continuing education before the authorized provider may be registered by the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 213 |
| MD | HB1518 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Health, by December 1 each year, to submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the findings, recommendations, and actions of the Maternal Mortality Review Program and to include a summary of certain stakeho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 308 |
| MD | HB1217 | Pass | Defining the term "splash pad" to mean an outdoor play area with sprinklers, fountains, nozzles, or other devices or structures that spray water and in which water is not allowed to accumulate and that is not used for submersion of the human body; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 235 |
