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MDHB295Intro
25%
Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim August 31 as Overdose Awareness Day.
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2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1346Intro
25%
Altering the procedures related to competency evaluations, including by requiring the Maryland Department of Health, rather than the court, to determine the basis on which a defendant will be examined; altering the definition of "designated health ca...
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2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1298Intro
25%
Authorizing the father of a child to file a petition to add the father's surname to the child's name under certain circumstances and establishing related court procedures; and requiring the Maryland Judiciary to develop and update, as appropriate, a ...
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2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1394Intro
25%
Requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, each county board of education to provide students in grades six through twelve with the telephone numbers of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and the Safe Schools Maryland anonymous tip line by p...
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB10Intro
25%
Altering which individuals are eligible to receive mental health counseling paid for by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; requiring the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board to provide direct reimbursement to mental health professionals providi...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB79Intro
25%
Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a ...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB190Intro
25%
Providing that a first responder who is diagnosed by a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist with post-traumatic stress disorder is presumed under certain circumstances to have an occupational disease that was suffered in the line of duty and is comp...
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2024-03-04
Referred to interim study by Economic Matters
MDHB187Intro
25%
Establishing the Task Force to Study Aggressive and Reckless Driving to study data, research, initiatives, and policies regarding aggressive and reckless driving; and requiring the Task Force to submit an interim report by December 1, 2024 and a fina...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1094Intro
25%
Authorizing a community-based organization to establish an overdose prevention site pilot program with the approval of the Maryland Department of Health and in consultation with the local health department; requiring a program to acquire gas chromato...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1423Intro
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...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB352Intro
25%
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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2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB694Intro
25%
Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to establish the ENOUGH grant program, subject to certain requirements; requiri...
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2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1119Intro
25%
Establishing the Algorithmic Addiction Fund; providing that the Fund includes all revenue received by the State from a judgment against, or settlement with, technology conglomerates, technology companies, social media conglomerates, or social media c...
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2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB828Intro
25%
Requiring each public institution of higher education to adopt a policy to authorize a student to withdraw under extenuating circumstances and reimburse the student for tuition and fees paid for the semester in which the student withdraws under certa...
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2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1389Intro
25%
Altering circumstances under which certain individuals are presumed to have died as a direct and proximate result of an injury sustained in the performance of duties for purposes of eligibility for death benefits.
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2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB331Intro
25%
Establishing the Task Force to Study Paratransit in Maryland; requiring the Task Force to study paratransit in the State, including current, needed, and expected funding for paratransit, reasons for current funding and spending gaps, and the role pub...
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2024-02-15
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1484Intro
25%
Altering the process for distributing the Community Reinvestment and Repair Fund to Baltimore City by allocating certain funds to the Baltimore City Comptroller under certain circumstances; establishing an Equitable Community Investment Council in ea...
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2024-02-15
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB61Intro
25%
Establishing a program within the Division of Correction that provides formerly incarcerated individuals and individuals on probation with certain services; requiring the facility that administers the program to be located in Prince George's County; ...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB103Intro
25%
Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim August 31 as Overdose Awareness Day.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1144Intro
25%
Altering a reporting requirement for correctional units relating to restrictive housing; requiring hearing officers and personnel involved with the supervision and care of individuals placed in restrictive housing to undergo certain training; and est...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1376Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, managed care organizations, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for a special administrative...
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2024-02-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1372Intro
25%
Establishing the Mental Health Care Fund for Children and Youth as to support improved access to mental health care services to children and youth in the State; imposing a tax on certain annual revenues derived from certain digital social media servi...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB65Intro
25%
Requiring a school health practitioner, health care practitioner, or certified school psychologist employed by or under a contract with a school-based health center, local school system, or local health department to provide school health services at...
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2024-02-12
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB121Intro
25%
Stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services not locate training facilities with outdoor firearm ranges near a hospital, educational, state or local correctional, or juvenile facility; requ...
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2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1100Intro
25%
Requiring child advocacy centers to report annually to the Behavioral Health Administration certain information related to behavioral health care services provided at the center; requiring the Administration to include in its annual report certain in...
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2024-02-12
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1456Intro
25%
Requiring that an application for a license, an identification card, or a moped operator's permit allow an applicant to indicate the applicant's nonapparent disability; and requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to ensure that the license, identi...
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2024-02-12
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB118Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Parole Commission to consider the age of incarcerated individuals when determining whether to grant parole; altering how the Commission evaluates a request for medical parole; requiring the Commission to develop procedures fo...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB185Intro
25%
Repealing provisions relating to gubernatorial approval of a decision of the Maryland Parole Commission to grant medical parole to an inmate serving a sentence of life imprisonment.
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB184Intro
25%
Establishing the Healthy Maryland Program as a public corporation and a unit of State government to provide comprehensive universal single-payer health care services for residents of the State by January 1, 2026; establishing requirements and prohibi...
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB804Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "medical service" for the purpose of providing an exemption to the certificate of need requirement by removing psychiatry and any subcategory of psychiatry; and providing that a certificate of need is not required to establ...
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1085Intro
25%
Altering certain reporting requirements on health insurance carriers relating to compliance with the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act; altering requirements for certain analyses of nonquantitative treatment limitations required o...
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1040Intro
25%
Requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide limited behavioral health services to individuals under the age of 18 years regardless of whether the individual has a behavioral health diagnosis; requiring the...
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1289Intro
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...
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB756Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety, the State Department of Education, and the Interagency Commission on School Construction by July 1, 2025, and every 2 years thereafter, to review and promulgate guidelines on the state of physical secu...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB917Intro
25%
Altering the duties of behavioral health services coordinators and the Maryland Consortium on Coordinated Community Supports regarding duties related to implementing Restorative Practices Schools throughout the State; requiring the State Department o...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB865Intro
25%
Expanding, renaming, and altering certain provisions relating to a certain truancy reduction program in certain juvenile courts; authorizing a county or circuit administrative judge to establish a certain Truancy Reduction and School Reengagement Pro...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB1085Intro
25%
Altering a reporting requirement for correctional units relating to restrictive housing; requiring hearing officers and personnel involved with the supervision and care of individuals placed in restrictive housing to undergo certain training; and est...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB1096Intro
25%
Requiring that an application for a license, an identification card, or a moped operator's permit allow an applicant to indicate the applicant's nonapparent disability; and requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to ensure that the license, identi...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1087Intro
25%
Prohibiting online gambling while on campus at an institution of higher education in the State; requiring by August 1, 2024, each institution of higher education to establish a geofence around the perimeter of the campus that prevents access to onlin...
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2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB554Intro
25%
Requiring the court, after a verdict of not criminally responsible for murder in the first degree to commit a defendant to a designated health care facility for life; and requiring a court, after a verdict of not criminally responsible for murder in ...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB855Intro
25%
Limiting the circumstances under which an incarcerated minor may be involuntarily placed in restrictive housing; prohibiting the placement of a minor in restrictive housing for more than 6 hours; and authorizing a correctional facility to place a min...
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB876Intro
25%
Requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide limited behavioral health services to individuals under the age of 18 years regardless of whether the individual has a behavioral health diagnosis; and requiring...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB888Intro
25%
Authorizing a local behavioral health authority to hire its own inspectors to monitor behavioral health program quality and safety; requiring a local behavioral health authority to track complaints against behavioral health programs and health care p...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB931Intro
25%
Authorizing certain licensed social workers to register as a rehabilitation practitioner; and authorizing a licensed certified social worker-clinical to provide evaluation services for workers' compensation claims related to permanent impairments inv...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1029Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Health to conduct certain prevalence studies concerning problem and pathological mobile gambling; requiring the initial prevalence study to be completed by July 1, 2029; and altering the distribution of certain State lotte...
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2024-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB1069Intro
25%
Providing that a first responder who is diagnosed by a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist with post-traumatic stress disorder is presumed under certain circumstances to have an occupational disease that was suffered in the line of duty and is comp...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB988Intro
25%
Establishing the Self-Directed Mental Health Services Pilot Program in the Maryland Department of Health to facilitate access to clinically appropriate, person-centered, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed self-directed services in the most in...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB990Intro
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...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB83Intro
25%
Repealing certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act prospectively.
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2024-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB168Intro
25%
Establishing the Task Force to Study Aggressive and Reckless Driving to study data, research, initiatives, and policies regarding aggressive and reckless driving; and requiring the Task Force to submit an interim report by December 1, 2024 and a fina...
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2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor
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