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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 provision of certain agreements and descriptions of services; ...
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2024-04-09
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 to allow funds from the Fund to be used for admini...
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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
MDSB362Enroll
75%
Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering, from December 1, 2024, to January 15, 2027, the date by which the Accountability and Implementation Board has to conduct and s...
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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; requiring the study to identify and compare obesity coverage in other...
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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
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
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%
Prohibiting the sale of natural membrane condoms, rather than all nonlatex condoms, through a vending machine or other automatic device; excluding a violation of the prohibition on the sale of natural membrane comdoms through a vending machine or oth...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB59Enroll
75%
Requiring a hospital to take certain actions relating to the care of infants as soon as practicable before the hospital discharges an infant after the birth of the infant, including providing oral and written educational resources to the parent or le...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB119Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB371Enroll
75%
Requiring residential service agencies to submit certain reports to the Maryland Department of Labor regarding wage rates for personal care aides by September 1 each year, beginning in 2025; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health to report t...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB475Enroll
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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2024-04-04
Passed Enrolled
MDSB578Enroll
75%
Authorizing the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, 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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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB244Enroll
75%
Prohibiting vaping in certain indoor areas and places of employment and certain mass transportation; requiring that certain signs be posted and maintained in a certain manner in certain indoor areas and certain public entrances; requiring the Marylan...
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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDSB751Enroll
75%
Requiring the Secretary of Health to present decisions for the allocations of money from the Opioid Restitution Fund to the Opioid Restitution Fund Advisory Council; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to post on the Department's website cert...
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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDSB881Enroll
75%
Altering the number of years after completion of a project funded in part by a grant of the Federally Qualified Health Centers Grant Program after which the State may recover funding under certain circumstances.
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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDSB974Enroll
75%
Establishing a 9-8-8 fee to be paid by each subscriber to switched local exchange access service, commercial mobile radio service, or other 9-8-8-accessible service; establishing a prepaid wireless 9-8-8 fee to be paid on certain retail transactions;...
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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDSB938Enroll
75%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop, on or before December 1, 2026, a public education campaign on prostate, lung, and breast cancer prevention that targets communities disproportionately impacted by prostate, lung, and breast canc...
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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDSB1059Enroll
75%
Establishing requirements on certain health departments and health care providers and facilities regarding maternal health, including requirements regarding prenatal risk assessment forms and postpartum infant and maternal referral forms; requiring t...
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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDSB999Enroll
75%
Exempting an individual who practices as a certain nursing assistant for less than 4 months under federal regulations from the State's certification requirement; altering the designation of, and licensure requirements for, certified nursing assistant...
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2024-04-01
Returned Passed
MDSB197Enroll
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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2024-03-29
Passed Enrolled
MDSB613Enroll
75%
Extending, from October 1, 2024, to July 1, 2026, the date by which individuals 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 manag...
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2024-03-29
Passed Enrolled
MDSB144Enroll
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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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDSB332Enroll
75%
Requiring, on or before January 1, 2025, each hospital and urgent care center in the State to implement an evidence-based protocol for the early recognition and treatment of a patient with sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock that is based on gener...
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDSB412Enroll
75%
Altering the membership of a county's mental health advisory committee by including an individual with experience with mental health care for veterans or individuals serving in the military on the list of groups from which individuals may be appointe...
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDSB403Enroll
75%
Altering the definition of "accredited residential treatment center" for certain provisions of law governing hospitals and related institutions to include residential treatment centers accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation F...
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDSB712Enroll
75%
Requiring the department charged with oversight of a State-owned nursing home operated by a contractor, instead of the contractor, to provide notice of certain deficiencies and enforcement actions to the Governor, certain members of the General Assem...
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
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