| MD | HB100 | Intro 25% | Altering the definition of "public entity" to include a Resilience Authority for purposes of insurance pooling. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17 Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | SB5 | Intro 25% | Renaming the State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Pilot Program to be the State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Program; repealing the termination date of certain provisions of law that establish and govern the funding for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17 Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB297 | Intro 25% | Renaming the State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Pilot Program to be the State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Program; and repealing the termination date of certain provisions of law that establish and govern the funding ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17 Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations |
| MD | SB372 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2025-02-17 Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance |
| MD | HB529 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain carriers to post updated, accurate, and complete prescription drug formularies and changes to the formularies in a certain manner on a carrier's website; and requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health mai... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB697 | Intro 25% | Requiring a health insurance carrier to submit quarterly reports to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner on certain information related to the carrier's use of artificial intelligence or automated decision-making systems; and altering the information ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB607 | Intro 25% | Excluding transportation protection agreements from the definition of "preneed burial contract" and "pre-need contract" under the Maryland Cemetery Act and the Maryland Morticians and Funeral Directors Act, respectively; and providing that transporta... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17 [Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm] Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB156 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish a program to provide universal newborn nurse home visiting services to all families with newborns residing in the State; requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenan... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB102 | Engross 50% | Altering the definition of "public entity" to include a Resilience Authority for purposes of insurance pooling. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB321 | Engross 50% | Altering the definition of "purchaser" for the purpose of certain provisions of State insurance law governing pharmacy benefits managers to exclude certain nonprofit health maintenance organizations; and repealing certain provisions that restrict app... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1220 | Intro 25% | Excluding transportation protection agreements from the definition of "preneed burial contract" and "pre-need contract" under the Maryland Cemetery Act and the Maryland Morticians and Funeral Directors Act, respectively; and providing that transporta... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14 [Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1031 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage for prescription weight loss drugs for individuals who have been diagnosed with obesity and have at least... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1013 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations from applying a prior authorization requirement, step therapy protocol, or fail... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1069 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting the use of discretionary clauses in life insurance policies, health insurance policies, and annuity contracts. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1087 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for certain prescription drugs used to treat a symptom of or side effect from the treatment of stag... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1045 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1059 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Helping Everyone Afford Life-Saving Treatments and Health Care (HEALTH) Fund to assist Maryland Medical Assistance Program enrollees and insured individuals with heath care costs associated with services and benefits provided under S... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1086 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1082 | Intro 25% | 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 year 2026; and requiring the Maryland H... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1187 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations that provide coverage for chemotherapy to treat cancer to provide coverage for scalp cooling systems used for the preservatio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1328 | Intro 25% | Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making certain requests; establishing requirements and prohibitions governing aid in dying, including requirements related to requests for aid in dying, consulting physicians, mental health assessm... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 3 @ 2:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1251 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain health care facilities to adopt a certain policy relating to obstetric services and to provide evidence to the Maryland Department of Health that the health care facility has the policy; and requiring insurers that issue or deliver ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1351 | Intro 25% | Altering the period of time in which certain carriers are required to accept or deny certain social workers, counselors, therapists, and psychology associates for participation on the carrier's provider panel to within 30 days after the date a carrie... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1246 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1240 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting health care providers and carriers from using artificial intelligence if the artificial intelligence has been designed only to reduce costs for a health care provider or carrier at the expense of reducing the quality of patient care, dela... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1315 | Intro 25% | Altering the vaccinations included in the minimum package of child wellness services for which certain health insurers and nonprofit health service plans are required to provide coverage to include those recommended by the American Academy of Pediatr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1355 | Intro 25% | Altering the circumstances under which certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide coverage for medically appropriate and necessary hearing aids for adults to require coverage if the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1301 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1292 | Intro 25% | Requiring a carrier to verify and, as necessary, update the carrier's provider directory at least once every 90 days and update the information that must be made available in the carrier's provider directory on the Internet within 2, rather than 15, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1268 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage for the full length of long-term antibiotic treatment of Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses under certain circumst... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1314 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from using artificial intelligence to automatically deny prior authorizations; and prohibiting health care providers from charging a fee to obtain a pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1341 | Intro 25% | Requiring health insurance carriers to operate a 24-hour call center for appeals and adverse decisions, include certain information in a certain manner in the written notice of adverse decisions required to be sent to members, and conduct an annual s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1439 | Intro 25% | Exempting from certain requirements relating to offering health benefit plans to small employers in the State health benefit plans issued through a professional employer organization, coemployer, or other organization located in the State. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1243 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1366 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for an annual cervical smear or Pap test and for surveillance tests for ovarian cancer; and prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit h... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1495 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide individuals over at least 45 years of age with coverage for certain preventive screenings for ovarian cancer, including MRI and CT scans; and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB393 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain carriers to post updated, accurate, and complete prescription drug formularies and changes to the formularies in a certain manner on a carrier's website; and requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health mai... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB930 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care clinical services for individuals in the State; establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB228 | Engross 50% | Altering certain requirements relating to programs of instruction for applicants for certain limited lines credit insurance licenses; and requiring the insurer that provides the program of instruction to retain records relating to the program of inst... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB333 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission and the Maryland Insurance Administration to include a cybersecurity expert as staff to perform certain functions and submit to the State Chief Information Security Officer a report on the cybersecurity p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB646 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for insulin or certain other similar medication that is being used to treat an insured's or enrolle... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB641 | Intro 25% | Altering the circumstances under which certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide coverage for medically appropriate and necessary hearing aids for minors and adults to require cover... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB697 | Intro 25% | Requiring that a premium discount provided by the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund to an insured be based on the income of the insured and actuarially justified. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB691 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission and the Maryland Insurance Administration to include a cybersecurity expert as staff to perform certain functions and submit to the State Chief Information Security Officer a report on the cybersecurity p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB773 | Intro 25% | Requiring administrators, carriers, and pharmacy benefits managers to include certain cost sharing amounts paid by or on behalf of an enrollee or a beneficiary when calculating the enrollee's or beneficiary's contribution to a cost sharing requiremen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB757 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting insurance carriers that offer life insurance, long-term care insurance, and disability insurance policies or contracts from taking certain action regarding coverage based on whether an applicant or a policy or contract holder has requeste... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB771 | Intro 25% | Repealing certain provisions of law authorizing a peer-to-peer car sharing program's motor vehicle liability insurance policy on a replacement vehicle to be secondary coverage for a shared vehicle driver; altering certain motor vehicle liability insu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB760 | Intro 25% | Exempting from certain requirements relating to offering health benefit plans to small employers in the State health benefit plans issued through a professional employer organization, coemployer, or other organization located in the State. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB987 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to maintain a registry of artificial intelligence health software that may be distributed or operated in the State; prohibiting a person from distributing or operating artificial intelligence health softw... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB902 | Intro 25% | 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; requiring that a certain referral proced... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |