| MD | SB258 | Engross
50% | Requiring that the credential reappointment process for physician staff included in certain minimum standards for hospitals licensed in the State be conducted in accordance with standards of the accreditation body that accredits a hospital, rather th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-03
Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| MD | SB362 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to apply to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration at the Center for Mental Health Services for federal planning, development, and implementation grant funds related to certified comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-03
Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| MD | SB794 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to adopt regulations that establish certain food service facility standards for certain residential programs that have fewer than 17 residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-03
Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| MD | HB121 | Engross
50% | Requiring a treatment plan for an individual with a mental disorder admitted to a certain health care facility to include a discharge goal and an estimate of the probable length of the inpatient stay before the individual can be transferred to a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-31
Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance |
| MD | HB333 | Engross
50% | Establishing requirements related to the reimbursement of out-of-pocket costs paid by certain hospital patients who were eligible for free care, including requirements related to the consideration of data and the reporting and disclosure of certain i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-31
Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB420 | Engross
50% | Requiring that the Health Services Cost Review Commission exercise its authority to consider certain standards when determining the reasonableness of certain rates in a manner that is consistent with the all-payer model contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-31
Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB633 | Engross
50% | Requiring that the credential reappointment process for physician staff included in certain minimum standards for hospitals licensed in the State be conducted in accordance with standards of the accreditation body that accredits a hospital, rather th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-31
Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | SB509 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to provide certain information regarding the acquisition of a nursing home to the Office of Health Care Quality; requiring the Secretary of Health to consider the information before taking action regardin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-31
Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| MD | HB702 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to provide certain information regarding the acquisition of a nursing home to the Office of Health Care Quality; requiring the Secretary of Health to consider the information before taking action regardin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-31
Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | SB665 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, or the Office of Health Care Quality, to investigate whether residents in an assisted living program have been subject to neglect, exploitation, or abuse if the assisted living program is operating without...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-31
Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| MD | HB811 | Engross
50% | Requiring a hospital to include testing for fentanyl as part of a urine drug screening; and requiring the hospital, if a urine drug screening detects fentanyl, to report the deidentified test results to the Maryland Department of Health through the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-31
Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB774 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health or the Office of Health Care Quality to investigate whether residents in an assisted living program have been subject to neglect, exploitation, or abuse, if the assisted living program is operating without ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-31
Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB1153 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to adopt regulations that establish certain food service facility standards that are appropriate to residential programs that have less than 17 residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-31
Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | SB8 | Intro
25% | Requiring a treatment plan for an individual with a mental disorder admitted to a certain health care facility to include a certain discharge goal and an estimate of the probable length of the inpatient stay the individual requires before transfer to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-30
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB234 | Enroll
75% | Requiring that the Health Services Cost Review Commission exercise its authority to consider certain standards when determining the reasonableness of certain rates in a manner that is consistent with the all-payer model contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-30
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB582 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access to make recommendations to provide appropriate, accessible, and comprehensive behavioral health services to individuals in the State; establishing the Behavioral Health Care C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-30
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB581 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Behavioral Health Value-Based Purchasing Pilot Program in the Maryland Department of Health to establish and implement an intensive care coordination model using value-based purchasing in the specialty behavioral health system; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-30
Third Reading Passed (135-1) |
| MD | HB1148 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access to make recommendations to provide appropriate, accessible, and comprehensive behavioral health services that are available on demand to individuals in the State; establishing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-30
Second Reading Passed |
| MD | SB974 | Intro
25% | Requiring contractors operating State-owned nursing homes to promptly provide notice of certain deficiencies, enforcement actions, citations, and fines to the Governor, the State agency overseeing the nursing home, certain committees of the General A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1301 | Intro
25% | Requiring contractors operating State-owned nursing homes to promptly provide notice of certain deficiencies, enforcement actions, citations and fines to the Governor, the State agency overseeing the nursing home, certain committees of the General As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB914 | Engross
50% | Requiring a hospital to include testing for fentanyl as part of a urine drug screening; and requiring the hospital, if a urine drug screening detects fentanyl, to report the deidentified test results to the Maryland Department of Health through the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB493 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Commission to Study Trauma Center Funding in Maryland to study the adequacy of trauma center funding across the State for operating, capital, and workforce costs; and requiring the Commission to report its finding and recommendations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB336 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a court from requiring a letter of exception for an individual to testify in a criminal proceeding as an expert witness if the individual is reviewing the data, opinion, interpretation, or conclusion of another expert witness or forensic ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB404 | Engross
50% | Establishing requirements related to the reimbursement of out-of-pocket costs paid by certain hospital patients who were eligible for free care, including requirements related to the consideration of data and the reporting and disclosure of certain i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB626 | Engross
50% | Requiring that the members of the Health Services Cost Review Commission be appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate of Maryland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB648 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a nursing home that contracts with or uses an electronic health information network or electronic medical record vendor, with the consent of the patient or patient's representative, to direct the network or vendor to release electronic me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB489 | Engross
50% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB318 | Engross
50% | Requiring provider agencies to submit certain reports to the Maryland Department of Labor by September 1 each year, beginning in 2024, regarding average wage rates for personal care aides; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to work with stak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB274 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Task Force on Reducing Emergency Department Wait Times to study and make recommendations for reducing emergency department wait times; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations, including legislative, re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB490 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish and maintain a registry of each employee of a residential service agency who provides home health care; requiring each residential service agency to submit certain information to the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB810 | Intro
25% | Repealing the requirement that a hospice care program obtain a certificate of need to build or expand a facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1249 | Intro
25% | Requiring, on or before December 1, 2023, the Maryland Department of Health to submit a State plan amendment to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to establish certified community behavioral health clinics; requiring, if the Centers for M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB725 | Intro
25% | Increasing from 4% to 10% the percentage reimbursement rate increase that is required to be included in the Governor's proposed budget for fiscal year 2024 for providers of certain health care services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1135 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain health care facilities to allow a qualifying patient with a certain written certification to consume medical cannabis within the health care facility if the patient is receiving certain medical care at the health care facility; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB970 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to require an acute care hospital that participates in the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to develop a plan that demonstrates a commitment by the hospital to provide certain operating room time for cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB482 | Intro
25% | Establishing data collection, maintenance, and disclosure requirements for gamete agencies, gamete banks, and fertility clinics; requiring a gamete donor to consent to the disclosure of the gamete donor's identity to an individual who is at least 18 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB786 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a nursing home that contracts with or uses an electronic health information network or electronic medical record vendor to direct the network or vendor to release electronic medical records and electronic health care transactions to a bus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB675 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Commission to Study Trauma Center Funding in Maryland to study the adequacy of trauma center funding across the State for operating, capital, and workforce costs; and requiring the Commission to reports its findings and recommendatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB587 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain health care facilities to allow a qualifying patient with a certain written certification to consume medical cannabis within the health care facility if the patient is receiving certain medical care at the health care facility; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB604 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to increase the hourly reimbursement rate for certain personal assistance services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to a minimum of $25 per hour; requiring provider agencies to pay the greater ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB46 | Intro
25% | Requiring that, in certain fiscal years, certain funding provided in the legislative appropriation to the Medical Care Programs Administration for medical care provider reimbursements be used for wage increases for health care workers and staff in nu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB468 | Intro
25% | Increasing from 4% to 10% the percentage reimbursement rate increase that is required to be included in the Governor's proposed budget for fiscal year 2024 for providers of certain health care services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB387 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force on Reducing Emergency Department Wait Times to study best practices for reducing emergency department wait times; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Asse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB230 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish and maintain a registry of each employee of a residential service agency who provides home health care; requiring each residential service agency to submit certain information to the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB180 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
