| MD | SB244 | Pass | Revising, restating, and recodifying the laws of this State relating to the Maryland Medical Assistance Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-31
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 864 |
| MD | HB529 | Pass | Revising, restating, and recodifying the laws of this State relating to the Maryland Medical Assistance Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-31
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 865 |
| MD | SB496 | Pass | Authorizing, beginning January 1, 2027, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide comprehensive coverage for the treatment of obesity; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide notice to Program recipients if the Department elec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-31
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 866 |
| MD | SB898 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide reimbursement for applied behavior analysis services provided by behavior technicians to Program recipients with autism spectrum disorder under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program; prohibitin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-31
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 867 |
| MD | HB1434 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop and maintain a caregiver resource webpage with information and resources to support certain caregivers in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-31
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 873 |
| MD | SB169 | Pass | Requiring a hospital to conduct screening on a patient presenting at an emergency department of the hospital to determine whether the patient has an emergency pregnancy-related medical condition; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 788 |
| MD | HB372 | Pass | Requiring a hospital to conduct screening on a patient presenting at an emergency department of the hospital to determine whether the patient has an emergency pregnancy-related medical condition; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 789 |
| MD | SB276 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage related to orthoses beginning January 1, 2027; clarifying that certain mandated b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 629 |
| MD | HB445 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage related to orthoses beginning January 1, 2027; clarifying that certain mandated b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 628 |
| MD | SB340 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill a minimum $2,000,000 appropriation for the Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman from certain money remitted by managed care organizations and, under certain circumstances, general funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 761 |
| MD | SB379 | Pass | Extending through fiscal year 2030 the requirement that an appropriation of $500,000 be included in the annual budget bill for the Recovery Residence Grant Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 627 |
| MD | SB428 | Pass | Prohibiting the Maryland Department of Health from imposing a copay, coinsurance, or deductible for services provided in accordance with the Collaborative Care Model statewide in primary care settings that provide services to Program recipients; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 614 |
| MD | HB671 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill, for fiscal year 2027 and each fiscal year thereafter, a minimum appropriation for the Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman from certain money remitted by managed care organizations and, u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 762 |
| MD | HB882 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that the Governor include in the annual budget bill a $350,000 appropriation to the State's Consumer Health Information Hub; requiring the Hub to carry out certain duties to the extent funding is available; and repealing the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 657 |
| MD | HB746 | Pass | Prohibiting the Maryland Department of Health from imposing a copay, coinsurance, or deductible for services provided in accordance with the Collaborative Care Model; requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health plans, and health maintenance organiza...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 615 |
| 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 | SB891 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for screening for perinatal behavioral health conditions at certain times; requiring the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 636 |
| MD | SB892 | Pass | Altering the membership of the State Advisory Council on Health and Wellness; requiring health occupations boards that require licensees or certificate holders to complete certain continuing education to grant at least 2 hours for every hour of conti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 605 |
| 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 | HB1118 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for screening for perinatal behavioral health conditions at certain times; requiring the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 637 |
| 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 | HB1364 | Pass | Requiring certain centers where mammography testing is performed to include in the screening results letter that is sent to a patient, as required by federal law, a notice of the presence of arterial calcification as observed during the patient's mam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 604 |
| MD | HB1365 | Pass | Altering the membership of the State Advisory Council on Health and Wellness; requiring certain health occupations boards to grant a certain number of hours for every hour of continuing education for menopause and menopause-associated symptoms; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 606 |
| MD | HB1151 | Veto | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission and the Maryland Medical Assistance Program jointly to study the impact of requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide reimbursement for room and board services provided by a hospice hous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-22
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | HB625 | Pass | Requiring research facilities that are located in the State and required to submit an Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Form 7023 to pay contributions for the Human-Relevant Research Fund to the Department of Agriculture, rather than the Mar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 385 |
| MD | SB585 | Pass | Requiring research facilities that are located in the State and required to submit an Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Form 7023 to pay contributions for the Human-Relevant Research Fund to the Department of Agriculture, rather than the Mar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 384 |
| MD | SB820 | Pass | Altering the violations of law with respect to which the Field Enforcement Division of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission is authorized to issue a citation; prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, exposing for sale, or advertisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 355 |
| MD | HB1523 | Pass | Altering the violations of law with respect to which the Field Enforcement Division of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission is authorized to issue a citation or charging document; prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, exposing f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 354 |
| 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 | HB272 | Pass | Altering the type of toilet that certain food establishments may use to comply with the requirement to provide a convenient lavatory; requiring that the fee for an on-farm food service facility license be determined by the Maryland Department of Heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 189 |
| MD | SB39 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to conduct an independent cost-driven rate-setting study to set community provider rates for community-based behavioral health services; authorizing the Maryland Health Care Commission to require community ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 218 |
| MD | SB159 | Pass | Requiring the Executive Director of the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems to coordinate, with Jurisdictional Emergency Medical Services Operating Programs, the minimum equipment, supplies, and medications needed for early chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 282 |
| MD | SB96 | Pass | Altering certain terminology used in the Sheila E. Hixson Behavioral Health Services Matching Grant Program for Service Members and Veterans that refers to active service members to refer to service members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 336 |
| MD | HB427 | Pass | Extending to December 31, 2027, the Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances to study and make recommendations related to the use of natural psychedelic substances; adding a representative of a historically Black college or uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 207 |
| MD | HB422 | Pass | Adding bacterial vaginosis to the list of diagnoses for which certain health care practitioners may prescribe, dispense, or otherwise provide antibiotic therapy to a sexual partner of a diagnosed patient without making a personal physical assessment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 194 |
| MD | HB446 | Pass | Altering the duties of the Virginia I. Jones Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Council to include an examination of the capacity of health care providers to deliver care to certain individuals and to identify methods by which the State can as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 239 |
| MD | SB336 | Pass | Extending to December 31, 2027, the Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances to study and make recommendations related to the use of natural psychedelic substances; adding a representative of a historically Black college or uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 208 |
| MD | HB535 | Pass | Increasing from $50,000 to $100,000 the maximum amount of annual revenue a business may generate from the sale of cottage food products to be considered a cottage food business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 320 |
| MD | SB394 | Pass | Adding bacterial vaginosis to the list of diagnoses for which certain health care practitioners may prescribe, dispense, or otherwise provide antibiotic therapy to a sexual partner of a diagnosed patient without making a personal physical assessment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 193 |
| MD | SB412 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that a forensic review board provide notice to certain individuals within a certain time period after issuing a recommendation; establishing the Community Forensic Aftercare Program in the Maryland Department of Health to mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 237 |
| 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 | SB413 | Pass | Transferring the authority to regulate certain crematories and reduction facilities from the Office of Cemetery Oversight to the State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors; altering the circumstances under which the Governor may remove an appoin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 187 |
| 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 | HB672 | Pass | Altering which entities are eligible to receive grants from the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund to exclude certain physicians, laboratories, and persons, and include certain nonprofit institutions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 220 |
| MD | HB698 | Pass | Transferring the authority to regulate certain crematories and reduction facilities from the Office of Cemetery Oversight to the State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors; altering the circumstances under which the Governor may remove an appoin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 188 |
| MD | HB772 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, rather than the Behavioral Health Administration and the Medical Care Programs Administration, to conduct a certain rate-setting study by June 30, 2028; establishing the Workgroup on Behavioral Health Rate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 219 |
| MD | SB579 | Pass | Requiring counties in which a volunteer fire company is located to offer no-cost preventive cancer screenings in accordance with certain guidelines to volunteer firefighters volunteering and retired volunteer firefighters who volunteered with the vol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 319 |
| MD | SB555 | Pass | Altering the duties of the Virginia I. Jones Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Council; establishing the Dementia Services and Brain Health Program in the Maryland Department of Health to lead the State's public health efforts relating to bra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 240 |
