| MD | SB590 | Intro 25% | Altering certain provisions of law prohibiting discrimination based on certain protected characteristics to include prohibitions on discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, marital status, and disability. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Simonaire) Adopted |
| MD | HB1292 | Intro 25% | Requiring the prescribing optometrist to include, in each prescription for glasses or contact lenses provided to a patient, the pupillary distance measurement at no additional cost to the patient. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB171 | Intro 25% | Adding a veterinary pharmacist member to the State Board of Pharmacy. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB794 | Intro 25% | Requiring the State Board of Social Work Examiners to establish a process to review and approve a person seeking to become an authorized sponsor of social work continuing education programs, subject to a requirement that at least one pathway for appr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1054 | Intro 25% | Exempting a foreign practicing physician applicant for a license from certain education requirements under certain circumstances; requiring the State Board of Physicians to establish a consortium of postgraduate medical education programs for the pur... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1120 | Intro 25% | Requiring the State Board of Social Work Examiners to establish a process to review and approve certain persons as authorized sponsors of social work continuing education programs, subject to a requirement that at least one pathway for approval does... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1331 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for massage therapy; and prohibiting the insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB1185 | Intro 25% | Requiring professional and occupational regulatory boards to issue licenses, certifications, and registrations to individuals who complete an apprenticeship program that is established under certain provisions of the Act, pass a certain examination, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21 To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB642 | Intro 25% | Requiring professional and occupational regulatory boards to issue licenses, certifications, and registrations to individuals who complete an apprenticeship program that is established under the Maryland Apprenticeships in Licensed Occupations Act, p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1481 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a retail business from charging a consumer a certain surcharge in excess of the amount required to reimburse the retail business for the cost of processing certain credit or debit transactions; and making a violation of this Act an unfair... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1289 | Intro 25% | Altering the definition of "practice social work" to clarify the types of assessments that may be performed by a licensee, add biopsychosocial treatment as a treatment option, and clarify the scope of practice for individuals licensed as certified so... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB691 | Intro 25% | Altering the definition of "legally protected health care" to include certain gender-affirming treatment, including medications and supplies, for the purposes of certain provisions of law that prohibit health occupations disciplinary actions and cert... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB1016 | Intro 25% | Requiring health care providers who are authorized to prescribe to double the amount of each drug prescribed for a child if a parent of the child presents the prescriber with a court order of joint legal custody with a right of medical decision makin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB62 | Intro 25% | Allowing a licensed direct-entry midwife to assume or take responsibility for a client who had a previous cesarean section and regulating the circumstances under which the responsibility may be assumed or taken; altering the required contents of a ce... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB330 | Intro 25% | Requiring that an individual shall have received a master's degree rather than a baccalaureate degree to be licensed as a dietician-nutritionist. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB312 | Intro 25% | Requiring a physician assistant to have a collaboration agreement with a patient care team physician, rather than a delegation agreement with a primary supervising physician, in order to practice as a physician assistant; increasing, from four to eig... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB355 | Intro 25% | Allowing a licensed direct-entry midwife to assume or take responsibility for a client who had a previous cesarean section and regulating the circumstances under which the responsibility may be assumed or taken; altering the required contents of a ce... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB506 | Intro 25% | Requiring the State Board of Physicians to adopt regulations authorizing a licensed physician to file an application for administrative expungement of a disciplinary record with the Board and establishing a process for the grant or denial of an admin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB204 | Intro 25% | Entering into the Social Work Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing regulated social workers who hold interstate compact licenses to practice social work in member states; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; establishing th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB359 | Intro 25% | Entering into the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact; establishing criteria for participating states; authorizing an advanced practice registered nurse to practice in a party state under certain scope of practice rules; establishing the Inter... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB218 | Intro 25% | Repealing obsolete and redundant language in, clarifying language in, and reorganizing certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Physicians and the regulation of physicians, physician assistants, and allied health professions; altering p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB3 | Intro 25% | Requiring health occupations boards to issue an expedited temporary license, certificate, registration, or permit to a service member, veteran, or military spouse who meets certain requirements; requiring each health occupations board to include a ch... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB246 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Nonoccupational Postexposure Prophylaxis (nPEP) Standing Order Program to authorize pharmacists and health care providers to prescribe or dispense nPEP under certain circumstances; and authorizing the Maryland Department of Health to... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To Senate Finance Committee |