| MD | SB59 | Pass | Requiring a hospital to take certain actions relating to the care of infants as soon as practicable before the hospital discharges an infant after the birth of the infant, including providing oral and written educational resources to the parent or le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 879 |
| MD | HB189 | Pass | Requiring residential service agencies to submit certain reports to the Maryland Department of Labor regarding wage rates for personal care aides on or before September 1 each year, beginning in 2025; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 865 |
| MD | HB39 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 881 |
| MD | HB84 | Pass | Requiring, on or before January 1, 2025, each hospital and urgent care center in the State to implement an evidence-based protocol for the early recognition and treatment of a patient with sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock that is based on gener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 922 |
| MD | HB177 | Pass | Requiring a hospital, as soon as practicable before discharging an infant after the birth of the infant, to provide oral and written resources to the parent or legal guardian; requiring a hospital, before discharging an infant, to ask the parent or l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 880 |
| MD | HB149 | Pass | Extending the time period from 5 to 7 years during which a health care provider is prohibited from destroying medical records and laboratory and X-ray reports; requiring that the notice required to be provided regarding the destruction of medical rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 779 |
| MD | SB197 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 882 |
| MD | SB332 | Pass | Requiring, on or before January 1, 2025, each hospital and urgent care center in the State to implement an evidence-based protocol for the early recognition and treatment of a patient with sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock that is based on gener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 923 |
| MD | HB328 | Pass | Altering the required contents of a hospital's financial assistance policy by removing the requirement that the provision of reduced-cost medically necessary care and payment plans be in accordance with the mission and service area of the hospital; a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 959 |
| MD | SB371 | Pass | Requiring residential service agencies to submit certain reports to the Maryland Department of Labor regarding wage rates for personal care aides by September 1 each year, beginning in 2025; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health to report t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 864 |
| MD | SB403 | Pass | Altering the definition of "accredited residential treatment center" for certain provisions of law governing hospitals and related institutions to include residential treatment centers accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 854 |
| MD | SB712 | Pass | Requiring the department charged with oversight of a State-owned nursing home operated by a contractor, instead of the contractor, to provide notice of certain deficiencies and enforcement actions to the Governor, certain members of the General Assem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 860 |
| MD | HB938 | Pass | Requiring the department charged with oversight of a State-owned nursing home operated by a contractor, instead of the contractor, to provide notice of certain deficiencies and enforcement actions to the Governor and certain members of the General As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 861 |
| MD | SB1000 | Pass | Requiring a person, at least 60 days before closing on an acquisition of a nursing home, to submit a request for acquisition to the Maryland Health Care Commission and provide notice to residents, resident representatives, and employees of the nursin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 816 |
| MD | SB1071 | Pass | Requiring hospitals to establish and maintain certain protocols and capacity related to the treatment of patients who are being treated for an opioid-related overdose or opioid-related emergency medical condition; requiring hospitals to make a referr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 886 |
| MD | SB952 | Pass | Establishing certain requirements for assisted living referrers, including requirements related to the maintenance of general liability insurance, criminal history records checks, and the provision of certain agreements and descriptions of services; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 839 |
| MD | SB1059 | Pass | Establishing requirements on certain health departments and health care providers and facilities regarding maternal health, including requirements regarding prenatal risk assessment forms and postpartum infant and maternal referral forms; requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 798 |
| MD | SB973 | Pass | Codifying a private hospital grant program for the purpose of making recommendations to the Governor for funding for capital projects at private hospitals in the State; requiring the Maryland Hospital Association to establish a certain review committ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 790 |
| MD | HB1051 | Pass | Establishing requirements on local health departments and certain health care providers and facilities regarding maternal health, including requirements regarding prenatal risk assessment forms and postpartum infant and maternal referral forms; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 799 |
| MD | HB1155 | Pass | Requiring hospitals to establish and maintain certain protocols and capacity related to the treatment of patients who are being treated for an opioid-related overdose or opioid-related emergency medical condition; requiring hospitals to make a referr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 885 |
| MD | HB1134 | Pass | Altering the definition of "accredited residential treatment center" for certain provisions of law governing hospitals and related institutions to include residential treatment centers accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 853 |
| MD | HB1143 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Emergency Department Wait Time Reduction Commission to address factors throughout the health care system that contribute to increased emergency department wait times; authorizing the Commission to request data from certain e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 844 |
| MD | HB1122 | Pass | Requiring a person, at least 60 days before the closing date of the acquisition of a nursing home, to submit a request for acquisition to the Maryland Health Care Commission and provide certain notice to residents, resident representatives, and emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 817 |
| MD | HB1439 | Pass | Increasing the motor vehicle registration emergency medical system surcharge for certain motor vehicles; providing for the distribution of revenues derived from the surcharge; altering certain provisions of law related to the Maryland Trauma Physicia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 718 |
| MD | HB68 | Pass | Requiring a provider to post the provider's most recent disclosure statement on the provider's website; increasing from yearly to quarterly the number of times a provider is required to hold a meeting open to all the provider's subscribers; requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 258 |
| MD | SB76 | Pass | Requiring a provider to post the provider's most recent disclosure statement on the provider's website; altering the number of times providers are required to hold a meeting open to all of the provider's subscribers each year; requiring an authorize...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 257 |
| MD | HB723 | Pass | Authorizing the Attorney General to seek injunctive relief on behalf of the State on the basis of an imminent or ongoing violation of certain rights of residents of certain health care facilities; requiring that the resident bill of rights for assist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 141 |
| MD | SB1103 | Pass | Altering the required contents of the written notice regarding outpatient facility fees; requiring the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, in consultation with certain entities, to study and make recommendations regarding hospital outpat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 142 |
| MD | SB1006 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a hospital, under certain circumstances, to sell the medical debt of patients if the debt is sold to a governmental unit or an entity that is under contract with the unit for the purpose of canceling the debt; requiring that a hospital's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Third Reading Passed (114-20) |
| MD | HB1263 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing certain requirements for assisted living referrers, including requirements related to the maintenance of general liability insurance, criminal history records checks, and the provision of certain agreements and descriptions of services; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB874 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a hospital or an ambulatory surgical facility from employing or contracting with an individual to provide surgical technology services unless the individual completes certain educational requirements and holds a certain credential or prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1194 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to establish a clinical staffing committee by January 1, 2025; requiring each clinical staffing committee to develop a clinical staffing plan by July 1, 2025; requiring that an administrator of a hosp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB825 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Health, on request of a county, to delegate to the county the authority to conduct site visits and full surveys of nursing homes; and requiring that the Maryland Department of Health and certain counties equally share the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1006 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a hospital or an ambulatory surgical facility from employing or contracting with an individual to provide surgical technology services unless the individual completes certain educational requirements and holds a certain credential or prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1253 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, on or before January 1, 2025, certain health care facilities to implement a program to provide individuals admitted to the health care facility reasonable access to a telephone.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB866 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a county to deem conclusively that a small halfway house or small private group home is a single-family dwelling or a multifamily dwelling for purposes of zoning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1346 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1475 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Health, on request of a unit of local government, to delegate to the unit of local government the authority to inspect and to conduct site visits and full surveys of related institutions and nursing homes; and requiring rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1123 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to adopt minimum cybersecurity standards for hospitals and take certain other actions related to the cybersecurity of hospitals, including supporting hospitals that do not meet the minimum cybersecurity s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB863 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Attorney General to seek injunctive relief on behalf of the State on the basis of an imminent or ongoing violation of certain rights of residents of certain health care facilities; authorizing the Attorney General to request a court t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB1175 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a hospital to conduct screening on an individual presenting at an emergency department of the hospital to determine whether the individual has an emergency medical condition; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the treatme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1376 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1149 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "hospital" to require a hospital located outside the State that provides outpatient services to patients in the State to provide a certain written notice regarding outpatient facility fees under certain circumstances; alter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB804 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB784 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force on Reducing Emergency Department Wait Times to monitor, discuss, and make recommendations for reducing emergency department wait times including legislative, regulatory, or other policy initiatives; and requiring the Task ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB813 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, on or before January 1, 2025, certain health care facilities to implement a program to provide individuals admitted to the health care facility reasonable access to a telephone.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB820 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a hospital to provide certain oral and written instructions on safe sleep environments for infants to the parent or legal guardian of an infant before the hospital discharges an infant into the care of the parent or legal guardian; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB1020 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each hospital licensed in the State to establish and maintain a clinical staffing committee and to implement a clinical staffing plan; requiring the Health Services Cost Review Commission to conduct investigations regarding alleged violatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB995 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an individual from performing or attempting to perform a laser hair removal procedure unless the indivdiual is a certain health professional; establishing certain requirements for the performance of laser hair removal procedures and laser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1177 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that certain individuals, before signing a continuing care agreement, are entitled to a certain visit and certain information; authorizing subscribers in a continuing care retirement community to take certain actions and to participate in c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
