| MD | HB230 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which the State may withdraw from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative by requiring the General Assembly to enact a law approving the withdrawal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 768 |
| MD | HB251 | Pass | Requiring a county board of education to provide age-appropriate instruction on the meaning of "consent" which is defined as the unambiguous and voluntary agreement between all participants in each physical act within the course of interpersonal rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 736 |
| MD | HB365 | Pass | Altering the determination of the number of exemptions that an individual may use to calculate a certain deduction under the Maryland income tax; requiring the Bureau of Revenue Estimates, in consultation with the Consensus Revenue Monitoring and For...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 574 |
| MD | HB535 | Pass | Establishing the Complete Streets Program to provide matching grants to certified jurisdictions to promote healthy communities; providing for program funds to be provided by the Governor in the State budget; specifying the requirements for a local go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 721 |
| MD | HB517 | Pass | Altering a certain provision of law to exempt a prescriber from being required to request certain data from the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program if the opioid or benzodiazepine is prescribed or dispensed to an individual to treat or prevent acute...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 772 |
| MD | HB605 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Health and Higher Educational Facilities Authority to engage an outside consultant to conduct a market-specific study to make certain determinations related to a State student loan refinancing program in Maryland; requiring the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 620 |
| 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 | HB993 | Pass | Requiring that, consistent with certain fiduciary duties, the investment policy manual adopted by the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System include certain policies and address certain details regarding the management of certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 769 |
| MD | HB1596 | Pass | Providing that, except as prohibited by federal law, a provision in certain employment contracts, policies, or agreements that waive certain rights or remedies to a claim of sexual harassment or certain retaliation is null and void as being against t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 738 |
| MD | HB1423 | Pass | Requiring each State employee to complete at least a cumulative 2 hours of in-person or virtual, interactive training on sexual harassment prevention within 6 months after the employee's initial appointment and every 2-year period thereafter; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 791 |
| 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 | HB800 | Pass | Requiring, under certain circumstances, that a dentist who is a faculty member at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry and was trained at a foreign dental school be qualified by the State Board of Dental Examiners to take a certain examinat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 710 |
| 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 | 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 | HB1635 | Pass | Prohibiting a certain hearing officer from ordering the release of an individual who meets the requirements for involuntary admission under a certain provision of law on the grounds that the individual was kept at an emergency facility for more than ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 729 |
| 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 | 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 | HB593 | Pass | Expanding the student loan tax credit that allows certain individuals with certain student loan debt amounts to claim a credit against the State income tax to include graduate student loan debt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 382 |
| MD | HB781 | Pass | Exempting individuals who have successfully obtained a high school diploma by examination from certain requirements relating to the Guaranteed Access Grant, subject to certain qualifications; requiring certain individuals to meet certain qualificatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 388 |
| MD | HB858 | Pass | Requiring regulations adopted by the Board of Public Works to prohibit a unit from assessing liquidated damages for certain contracts for which a certain minority business enterprise was named on a participation schedule or named on a participation s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 481 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB249 | Pass | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage for instruction by a licensed health care provider on fertility awareness-based methods; prohibiting the insurers, nonprofit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 437 |
| 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 | HB691 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Health to distribute at least $400,000 annually from the Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Fund to the qualified nonprofit organization responsible for the maintenance and operation of a certain donor registry; requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 444 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB994 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to apply to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a State plan amendment to the Family Planning Program; altering from 6 to 12 months the time period for a single dispensing of a supply of pres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 464 |
| 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 | HB1283 | Pass | Altering, from a 6-month to a 12-month period, the length for which a certain insurer, nonprofit health service plan, and health maintenance organization is required to provide coverage for a single dispensing of a supply of prescription contraceptiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 450 |
| 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 | HB877 | Pass | Requiring that the owner of a burial site or land encompassing a burial site that is more than 50 years old and in which the majority of persons interred have been interred for over 50 years to consult with the Maryland Historical Trust regarding cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 506 |
| 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 | HB1685 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Prenatal and Infant Care Coordination Services Grant Program Fund to make grants to counties and municipalities to provide care coordination services to low-income pregnant and postpartum women and to children from birth to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 558 |
| 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 | HB372 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Transportation to withhold a portion of the State's annual operating grant to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority under certain circumstances; requiring the Department of Transportation to provide an annual g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 352 |
| MD | HB306 | Pass | Requiring the State, through its appropriate officers and employees, to provide a reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child after the child's birth each time the employee needs to express the milk and, on noti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 179 |
| MD | HB305 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to identify homeowners who may be eligible but have failed to apply for the homestead property tax credit; and requiring the Department to include a separate insert with each assessment notic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 297 |
| MD | HB432 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Violence Intervention and Prevention Program Fund to support effective violence reduction strategies by providing competitive grants to local governments and nonprofit organizations to fund evidence-based health programs or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 148 |
