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MDSB952Enroll
75%
Establishing certain requirements for assisted living referrers, including requirements related to the maintenance of general liability insurance, criminal history records checks, and the maintenance and provision of certain agreements and documents;...
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2024-04-09
Passed Enrolled
MDHB119Enroll
75%
Altering certain HIV and syphilis reporting and testing requirements for hospitals and health care providers for pregnant women and newborns; providing that certain documents related to certain HIV and syphilis reports are not discoverable and are no...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB167Enroll
75%
Requiring that a physician assistant have a collaboration agreement, rather than a delegation agreement, in order to practice as a physician assistant; altering the scope of practice of a physician assistant; altering the education required for licen...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB230Enroll
75%
Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration and local health departments to access electronically from the Maryland Department of Health a copy of a death certificate and, on request, provide any person authorized by regulations with a certified or ...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB149Enroll
75%
Extending the time period from 5 to 7 years during which a health care provider is prohibited from destroying medical records and laboratory and X-ray reports; requiring that the notice required to be provided regarding the destruction of medical rec...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB96Enroll
75%
Repealing a certain requirement related to the inclusion of a core condition in the system for newborn screening; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to implement testing for a core condition listed in the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel ...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB353Enroll
75%
Defining the term "Health and Human Services Referral System" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the System to mean a certain coordinated system for health and human service resources that is accessible to State residents, rather...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB408Enroll
75%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to report, on or before December 1, 2024, December 1, 2025, and December 1, 2026, to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Health and Government Operations Committee on current opioid overdose reversal...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB413Enroll
75%
Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to public accommodation, housing, employment, financial transactions, education, insurance, the provision of public utility services, and State personnel actions.
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB453Enroll
75%
Authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program; requiring the Maryland Department of Health, on or before July 1, 2026, to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program in a county that does not opt to establish a ...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB598Enroll
75%
Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to housing and employment.
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB614Enroll
75%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage related to prostheses beginning January 1, 2025; establishing that certain insure...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB865Enroll
75%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage related to prostheses; establishing that certain insurers, nonprofit health servi...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB1106Enroll
75%
Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that this Act is not intended to affect any ...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB1000Enroll
75%
Requiring a person, at least 60 days before closing on an acquisition of a nursing home, to submit a request for acquisition to the Maryland Health Care Commission and provide notice to residents, resident representatives, and employees of the nursin...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB986Enroll
75%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to study the impact of requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide comprehensive coverage for the treatment of obesity, including coverage for intensive behavioral therapy, bariatric surger...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB1028Enroll
75%
Establishing a regulatory system for reduction operators and reduction facilities; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the performance of alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction and the disposition of hydrolyzed or soil re...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB991Enroll
75%
Establishing the Language Assistance Services Pilot Program in the Behavioral Health Administration to provide grants to local behavioral health authorities to reimburse behavioral health providers for language assistance services for children with l...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB973Enroll
75%
Codifying a private hospital grant program for the purpose of making recommendations to the Governor for funding for capital projects at private hospitals in the State; requiring the Maryland Hospital Association to establish a certain review committ...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1397Enroll
75%
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.
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1439Enroll
75%
Increasing the motor vehicle registration emergency medical system surcharge for certain motor vehicles; providing for the distribution of revenues derived from the surcharge; altering certain provisions of law related to the Maryland Trauma Physicia...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB1472Enroll
75%
Authorizing the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2025, to include at least $500,000 in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program.
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB245Enroll
75%
Adding the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission to the governmental activities and units subject to the Maryland Program Evaluation Act; and extending the termination date to June 30, 2028, for certain provisions of law related to the Commi...
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2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled
MDHB97Enroll
75%
Requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, manufacturers of baby food to test a representative sample of each production aggregate of the manufacturer's final baby food product for certain toxic heavy metals; requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, manufact...
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2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled
MDSB117Enroll
75%
Repealing the requirement that the Secretary of Health and the State Advisory Council on Hereditary and Congenital Disorders determine whether to approve the inclusion of a core condition in the system for newborn screening within 1 year after the ad...
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2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled
MDSB790Enroll
75%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide Maryland Medical Assistance Program services for individuals under the Employed Individuals with Disabilities Program in accordance with certain requirements; prohibiting the Department from limi...
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2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled
MDSB1068Enroll
75%
Stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Information Technology evaluate the feasibility of creating a 3-1-1 portal utilizing artificial intelligence and that the Department prioritize the creation of the portal if feasible.
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2024-04-06
Returned Passed
MDHB1304Enroll
75%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a process for providing information about the availability of the State's earned income tax credits to individuals enrolled or participating in certain programs or services, or potential enrollee...
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2024-04-06
Returned Passed
MDHB153Enroll
75%
Adding an attorney representing a patient to the list of individuals to whom a health care provider is prohibited from charging a fee for providing copies of a medical record that will be used for the purpose of filing a claim regarding or appealing ...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB238Enroll
75%
Prohibiting vaping in certain indoor areas and places of employment and certain mass transportation; requiring that certain signs be posted in each public indoor area and each public entrance to an indoor area where smoking or vaping is prohibited; r...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB13Enroll
75%
Altering the use of the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund to require that the Fund be used only for pediatric cancer research instead of only for pediatric cancer research, prevention, and treatment; and establishing the Pediatric Cancer Research Commis...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB189Enroll
75%
Requiring residential service agencies to submit certain reports to the Maryland Department of Labor regarding wage rates for personal care aides on or before September 1 each year, beginning in 2025; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health t...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB39Enroll
75%
Authorizing the Maryland Department of Health to reimburse a residential service agency for personal assistance services only if the personal assistance services are provided by an individual classified as an employee.
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB220Enroll
75%
Repealing the exceptions that allow the sale, distribution, or purchase of tobacco products, tobacco paraphernalia, and electronic smoking devices to or for certain individuals who are active duty members of the military; authorizing the Maryland Dep...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB51Enroll
75%
Altering the use of the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund to require that the Fund be used only for pediatric cancer research instead of only for pediatric cancer research, prevention, and treatment and to allow funds from the Fund to be used for admini...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB328Enroll
75%
Altering the required contents of a hospital's financial assistance policy by removing the requirement that the provision of reduced-cost medically necessary care and payment plans be in accordance with the mission and service area of the hospital; a...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB362Enroll
75%
Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering the funding formula for community colleges and the State aid program for private nonprofit institutions of higher education; au...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB576Enroll
75%
Authorizing a psychiatric nurse practitioner to evaluate an emergency evaluee for purposes of involuntary admission; authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program by July 1, 2026; requiring the Maryland Department of H...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB583Enroll
75%
Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention in the Maryland Department of Health to reduce firearm violence, harm from firearm violence, and misuse of firearms in the State by partnering with federal, State, and local age...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB594Enroll
75%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to study the impact of requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide comprehensive coverage for the treatment of obesity; and requiring the Department to report its findings to the House Heal...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB723Enroll
75%
Requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, manufacturers of baby food to test a representative sample of each production aggregate of baby food for toxic heavy metals; requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, manufacturers of baby food to make certain inform...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB833Enroll
75%
Establishing a presumption that placement with a child's parent is in the best interest of the child, the child is receiving proper care and attention, and there is not a certain emergency situation if the child's parent is receiving certain substanc...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB806Enroll
75%
Requiring that a physician assistant have a collaboration agreement, rather than a delegation agreement, in order to practice as a physician assistant; altering the scope of practice of a physician assistant; altering the education required for licen...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB791Enroll
75%
Altering and establishing requirements and prohibitions related to health insurance utilization review; altering requirements related to internal grievance procedures and adverse decision procedures; altering certain reporting requirements on health ...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB932Enroll
75%
Altering and establishing requirements and prohibitions related to health insurance utilization review; altering requirements related to internal grievance procedures and adverse decision procedures; altering certain reporting requirements on health ...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB874Enroll
75%
Extending, from October 1, 2024, to July 1, 2026, the date by which an individual must be licensed by the State Board of Long-Term Care Administrators before practicing as an assisted living manager in the State; altering the requirements for the man...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB1071Enroll
75%
Requiring hospitals to establish and maintain certain protocols and capacity related to the treatment of patients who are being treated for an opioid-related overdose or opioid-related emergency medical condition; requiring hospitals to make a referr...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB944Enroll
75%
Repealing a prohibition against the sale of nonlatex condoms through a vending machine or other automatic device; prohibiting the sale of natural membrane condoms through a vending machine or other automatic device; and authorizing registered nurses ...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB1103Enroll
75%
Altering the required contents of the written notice regarding outpatient facility fees; and requiring the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, in consultation with certain entities, to study and make recommendations regarding hospital ou...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1171Enroll
75%
Prohibiting the sale of natural membrane condoms, rather than all nonlatex condoms, through a vending machine or other automatic device; repealing a criminal penalty related to the sale of certain contraceptives by means of a vending machine or other...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
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