| 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 | 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 | SB839 | Pass | Requiring, beginning in 2026, the Maryland Department of Health to conduct the in-State cost-of-dispensing survey at least every 3 years; and requiring by December 1 each year in which the survey is required, the Department to report the survey resu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 708 |
| 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 | HB1470 | Pass | Requiring, beginning in 2026, the Maryland Department of Health to conduct the in-State cost-of-dispensing survey at least every 3 years; and requiring the Department to report the results of the survey to the General Assembly by December 1 in each ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 709 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1563 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Insurance Commission to conduct an examination of certain decisions by carriers related to claims or authorization requests for services in, or related to services, in emergency departments; requiring the Maryland Health Care...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 165 |
| MD | SB123 | 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 62 |
| MD | HB322 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Maryland Health Care Commission by reducing from nine to eight the number of members who are individuals who do not have any connection with the management or policy of a health care provider or payor and including an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 38 |
| MD | SB260 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Maryland Health Care Commission by reducing from nine to eight the number of members who are individuals who do not have any connection with the management or policy of a health care provider or payor and including an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 39 |
| 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 | HB498 | Pass | Repealing the exemption from the certificate of need requirement for a change in bed capacity for intermediate care facilities that offer substance use disorder treatment services; providing a certificate of need is not required for a change in bed c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 69 |
| MD | SB385 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Health to issue recommendations for certain immunizations, screenings, and preventive services based on certain evidence-based scientific and clinical guidance; requiring the Secretary, before adopting a recommendation for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 8 |
| MD | HB637 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Health to issue recommendations for certain immunizations, screenings, and preventive services based on certain evidence-based scientific and clinical guidance; requiring the Secretary, before adopting a recommendation for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 7 |
| MD | SB444 | Pass | Repealing the exemption from the certificate of need requirement for a change in bed capacity for intermediate care facilities that offer substance use disorder treatment services; providing a certificate of need is not required for a change in bed c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 68 |
| 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 | SB246 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a member of the Health Services Cost Review Commission to continue to serve for a period not to exceed 6 months after the expiration of the member's term of office, rather than until a successor is appointed and qualifies; and repealing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Third Reading Passed (132-0) |
| MD | SB348 | Engross
50% | 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 | SB611 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2026-04-11
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB515 | Engross
50% | 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
50% | 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
50% | 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 | HB922 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Behavioral Health Administration to adopt regulations authorizing a behavioral health program to relocate to another site; and requiring the regulations to address an expedited approval process, the use of documentation previously submi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB931 | Engross
50% | 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 | HB599 | Engross
50% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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 | HB1293 | Intro
25% | Requiring behavioral health programs that own, lease, operate, or control an inpatient facility to take certain affirmative and reasonable steps to determine whether a resident is required to register under the Maryland Sex Offender Registry; and req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB1481 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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 | HB1131 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting individuals who experienced a pregnancy loss from being subject to investigation, civil liability, or criminal prosecution except under certain circumstances; establishing a private right of action for a violation of a certain prohibition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1106 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Commission on Women's Health Advancement to study the feasibility of establishing a State women's hospital in Southern Maryland and a statewide clinical network to advance women's health; requiring the Commission by January ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB1129 | Intro
25% | Requiring provider agencies to pay at least $17 per hour to personal care aides and to provide a certain notice regarding the wage to personal care aides; and requiring provider agencies to provide personal care aides with a certain minimum amount of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB424 | Intro
25% | Altering a certain requirement pertaining to the number of regular and alternate members selected to be on the governing body of a continuing care in a retirement community provider; authorizing a resident association, rather than a governing body, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To House Health Committee |
| MD | SB560 | Intro
25% | Requiring a provider of a continuing care retirement community to pay any contractual entrance fee refund not later than 2 years after a continuing care agreement is terminated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB549 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain facilities to inform individuals of certain rights relating to the participation of a family member or other authorized individual in the individual's plan of treatment; requiring facilities to recognize certain documents as an indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB702 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Behavioral Health Administration to adopt regulations authorizing a behavioral health program to relocate to another site.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB832 | Intro
25% | 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 |
