| MD | SB521 | Pass | Requiring certain health systems to comply with certain insurance provisions regarding notice of termination of contracts; altering the notification requirements a carrier is required to provide an enrollee regarding changes to the carrier's provider...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 650 |
| MD | SB587 | Pass | Requiring, rather than authorizing, the Governor to include an appropriation of $1,000,000 to the Maryland Patient Safety Center Fund in the annual budget bill for fiscal year 2027 and each fiscal year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 626 |
| MD | HB945 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to notify and consult with the local health department for the county in which a nursing home is located if the Department initiates an investigation of a nursing home complaint alleging actual harm; establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 684 |
| MD | HB1087 | Pass | Requiring, by January 1, 2028, each health care facility that performs surgical procedures to adopt and implement policies that require the use of a smoke evacuation system during a surgical procedure that may generate surgical smoke.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 794 |
| MD | HB1249 | Pass | Requiring that the requirements for the certification of recovery residences established by a credentialing entity prohibit a certified recovery residence from refusing services to an individual receiving medication-assisted treatment for opioid use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 793 |
| MD | HB1540 | Pass | Repealing the sunset termination of a requirement for the Governor to include $10,000,000 in the annual budget bill for certain purposes related to the University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center; and altering certain findings by the General...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 797 |
| MD | HB1372 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission, in collaboration with the Office of Health Care Quality within the Maryland Department of Health, to develop a process to receive and publish certain inspection information on the Commission's Maryland Q...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 369 |
| MD | HB377 | Pass | Altering certain provisions of law to include physician assistants in the health care practitioners who may take certain actions, including actions related to the guardianship of disabled persons, admission of individuals to mental health facilities,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 223 |
| MD | SB326 | Pass | Altering certain provisions of law to include physician assistants in the health care practitioners who may take certain actions, including actions related to the guardianship of disabled persons, admissions to mental health facilities and the Emerge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 222 |
| MD | SB411 | Pass | Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to comply with certain staffing standards, to establish and maintain a clinical staffing committee, and to implement a clinical staffing plan; requiring the chief nursing executive of each hospital to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 235 |
| MD | HB640 | Pass | Modifying certain reporting requirements, boards, and commissions for practicability and efficiency; repealing certain reporting requirements that are unnecessary, obsolete, or duplicative; repealing as obsolete the Renewable Fuels Incentive Board, C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 171 |
| MD | HB624 | Pass | Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to comply with certain staffing standards to establish and maintain a clinical staffing committee and to implement a clinical staffing plan; requiring each staffing committee to develop a staffing pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 236 |
| MD | SB792 | Pass | Requiring hospitals in the State to adopt a policy describing the protocol of the hospital when there is an immigration enforcement action at the hospital; and requiring hospitals to make the immigration enforcement action policy available to all sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 162 |
| MD | HB1284 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to adopt regulations that authorize a residential service agency to provide training to a licensed nurse that provides private duty nursing services after employment; authorizing a residential service agenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 217 |
| MD | HB1559 | Pass | Prohibiting the placement of children in unlicensed settings under the out-of-home placement program required to be established by the Social Services Administration; altering the duties of the pediatric hospital overstay coordinators; establishing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 160 |
| MD | SB293 | Pass | Requiring nursing homes, assisted living programs, nurse midwives, and licensed certified midwives to notify each resident and prospective resident at certain times if the nursing home, assisted living program, nurse midwife, or licensed certified mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 32 |
| MD | HB442 | Pass | Requiring nursing homes, assisted living programs, nurse midwives, and licensed certified midwives to notify each resident and prospective resident in writing or by written electronic communication if the nursing home, assisted living program, nurse ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 33 |
| MD | HB554 | Pass | Adding the Chair of the House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee to the Legislative Policy Committee; and updating the committees of the General Assembly that receive certain required reports and notices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 152 |
| MD | SB493 | Pass | Prohibiting certain facilities from involuntarily transferring or discharging a resident to certain housing or before receiving certain confirmations; altering the information required to be included in a certain notice or new notice; requiring that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 25 |
| MD | HB747 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Oversight Committee on Quality of Care in Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 63 |
| MD | HB1002 | Pass | Prohibiting certain facilities from involuntarily transferring or discharging a resident to certain housing or before receiving certain confirmations; altering the information required to be included in a certain notice or new notice; requiring that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 24 |
| MD | SB844 | Pass | Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code and the Public Local Laws of Maryland; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 153 |
| MD | SB348 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the requirement that a hospital or freestanding birthing center contact the birth parent after the delivery of a newborn following a high-risk pregnancy to evaluate the birthing parent's status and, as necessary, provide certain information ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Third Reading Passed (100-34) |
| MD | SB515 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Commission, in carrying out certain responsibilities relating to evaluating facility resources to meet certain financial requirements and reviewing costs and rates of hospital services, to take into account all reasonable costs incurr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
Third Reading Passed (131-2) |
| MD | SB870 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on certain information related to adolescent psychiatric inpatient bed capacity in the State; and requiring the Department to report to the Governor and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-24
To House Health Committee |
| MD | SB876 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring, rather than authorizing, a recovery residence to be certified by a credentialing entity before operating in the State, beginning June 1, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-24
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB931 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a physician, in order to be designated as a medical director of a nursing home, to hold a certain medical director certification or be making active progress toward obtaining the certification; and requiring each nursing home to publish on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1548 | Intro
Sine Die | Replacing the term "landlord" with "residential housing provider" and "tenant" with "resident" in the context of residential leases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB599 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that hospitals, to qualify for a license on or after October 1, 2026, qualify as a nonprofit organization under federal law and be registered as a nonprofit organization with the State; requiring hospitals that receive licensure on or after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1597 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing an unregulated space in hospital operating suites pilot project; requiring the Health Services Cost Review Commission to administer the pilot project; requiring the Commission to develop certain criteria and standards for the pilot proje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-17
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB1251 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that, on or after October 1, 2027, certain facilities provide patients with certain access to palliative care and inform patients about the availability of palliative care at certain times; requiring the Department of Health to adopt regula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-13
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB1481 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting tissue banks and hospitals from denying a patient a physician-ordered autologous or directed blood donation under certain circumstances; authorizing a patient or an individual authorized to make medical decisions on a patient's behalf to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB1468 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a hospital to prepare a safe discharge labor plan before discharging or transferring a patient in active labor, subject to a certain exception; requiring a hospital to maintain records of safe discharge labor plans for at least 21 years; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Health Committee |
| MD | SB878 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to conduct at least two on-site unannounced inspections of each certified recovery residence annually; authorizing the Department to direct the recovery residence credentialing entity to revoke the certific...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB737 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the reimbursement rate at which health maintenance organizations are required to pay certain nonparticipating health care providers for services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-19
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB1051 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Meds-to-Beds Program in the Maryland Department of Health: providing the purpose of the Program is to reduce hospital readmissions by using a licensed pharmacist to deliver discharge medications to patients before they leave the hosp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB1409 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to conduct certain prevalence studies concerning problem and pathological mobile gambling, with an initial study to be completed on or before July 1, 2031; requiring the Secretary of Health, on or before No...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1153 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organization from downcoding a claim for reimbursement under certain circumstances; establishing certain procedures that insurers, nonprofit heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Health Committee |
| MD | SB832 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain nonprofit hospitals to provide a certain value of community benefits each year; requiring the Health Services Cost Review Commission to report on the compliance of nonprofit hospitals with the community benefits requirement to the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB797 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organization from downcoding a claim for reimbursement under certain circumstances; establishing certain procedures that insurers, nonprofit heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB448 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to conduct at least two on-site unannounced inspections of each certified recovery residence annually; authorizing the Department to direct the recovery residence credentialing entity to revoke the certific...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-11
To House Health Committee |
| MD | SB862 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to conduct certain prevalence studies concerning problem and pathological mobile gambling, with an initial study to be completed on or before July 1, 2031; requiring the Secretary of Health, on or before No...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-11
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1092 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to ensure the establishment and ongoing operation of a minimum 24 licensed adolescent psychiatric inpatient beds in Prince George's County; requiring, if the Department determines that expanding the bed cap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-11
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB1136 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain nonprofit hospitals to provide a certain value of community benefits each year; requiring the Health Services Cost Review Commission to report on the compliance of nonprofit hospitals with the community benefits requirement to the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-11
To House Health Committee |
| MD | SB494 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the exemption from the certificate of need requirement for certain mergers; requiring certain health care entities to provide certain notice of a material change transaction to the Maryland Health Care Commission and the public; establishin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB944 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the exemption from the certificate of need requirement for certain mergers; requiring certain health care entities to provide certain notice of a material change transaction to the Maryland Health Care Commission and the public; establishin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB758 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the purposes for which the Secretary of Health may make grants from or agreements for the use of State and federal funds with respect to the provision of services for problem gamblers; and altering the purposes for which the Maryland Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB616 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the jurisdiction of the Health Services Cost Review Commission; and requiring the Commission, in carrying out certain responsibilities relating to evaluating facility resources to meet certain financial requirements and reviewing costs and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-30
To House Health Committee |
