| MD | SB767 | Pass | Providing that full-time deputy sheriffs and correctional deputies at the rank of major and below in the Calvert County Sheriff's Office have the right to organize and negotiate with the County Administrator of Calvert County and the Calvert County S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 132 |
| MD | SB474 | Enroll
75% | Requiring that certain adverse decision and grievance decision notices include certain information in a certain manner; requiring certain carriers, if the number of adverse decisions issued by the carrier for a type of service has grown by 10% or mor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB511 | Enroll
75% | Requiring certain public senior higher education institutions to adopt a plan regarding pregnant and parenting students to include referral to on-campus or off-campus services to assist regarding the availability of or eligibility for certain governm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB632 | Engross
50% | Altering the required specifications for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Department of General Services to direct the procurement processes for the construction of a certain prerelease facility for fem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB813 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration and the Maryland Department of Health, in consultation with the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, to convene a workgroup to study and review reimbursement for pharmacists; and requiring the workgro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB820 | Enroll
75% | Requiring that certain carriers, pharmacy benefits managers, and private review agents ensure that artificial intelligence, algorithm, or other software tools are used in a certain manner when used for conducting utilization review.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB646 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for insulin or an insulin analog used to treat an insured's or enrollee's diabetes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB696 | Enroll
75% | Specifying that the scope of the Maryland Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Registry and Referral System includes both private and State inpatient and outpatient mental health and substance use services; requiring the Maryland Department of He...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1007 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting insurance carriers that offer life insurance or disability insurance policies or contracts from unfairly discriminating against an individual by taking certain actions relating to coverage based on medical information; prohibiting certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB962 | Enroll
75% | Specifying that the scope of the Maryland Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Registry and Referral System includes private and State inpatient and outpatient mental health and substance use services; requiring the Maryland Department of Health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB974 | Enroll
75% | Clarifying the application of certain health insurance preventive services coverage requirements to certain high deductible health plans; and requiring the Insurance Commissioner to enforce certain provisions of law related to preventive services con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB773 | Enroll
75% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to include certain discounts, financial assistance payments, product vouchers, and other out-of-pocket expenses made by or on behalf of an insured or enr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB921 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for certain prescription drugs prescribed by a treating physician to treat a symptom of or side eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB975 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from excluding coverage for certain specialty drugs that are administered or dispensed by a provider that is an in-network provider of covered oncology...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1086 | Enroll
75% | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, managed care organizations, and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations, if providing coverage for the delivery of anesthesi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1082 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the State-Based Health Insurance Subsidies Program to provide subsidies to individuals in the State to mitigate the impact of a reduction in certain federal advance premium tax credits for calendar years 2026 through 2028; and requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1069 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting the use of discretionary clauses in life insurance policies, health insurance policies, annuity contracts, and health maintenance organization contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1351 | Enroll
75% | Altering the providers of certain community-based health services that a carrier is prohibited from rejecting for participation on the carrier's provider panel; altering the period of time in which certain carriers are required to accept or deny cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1246 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to include certain discounts, financial assistance payments, product vouchers, and other out-of-pocket expenses made by or on behalf of an insured or enr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Third Reading Passed (47-0) |
| MD | HB1315 | Enroll
75% | Altering the vaccinations that a pharmacist may administer, subject to certain requirements, to an individual of at least a certain age; altering the vaccinations included in the minimum package of child wellness services for which certain health ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1301 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, the Maryland Children's Health Program, managed care organizations, and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from requiring prior authorizat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1292 | Enroll
75% | Renaming "network directory" to be "provider directory" to conform to a certain federal law; altering the time period from 15 to 2 working days within which certain carriers are required to update the information that must be made available in the ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1474 | Enroll
75% | Establishing a temporary telehealth license to be issued by the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists authorizing the holder to provide clinical professional counseling services only to a student attending an institution of higher edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB909 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Strategic Energy Planning Office; requiring the Office to develop a Comprehensive Wholesale Energy Markets and Bulk Power System Risk Report and examine certain scenarios to support the development of the Risk Report; requiring the R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB718 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission to monitor and assess the impact of potential and actual federal changes to specified health care programs and to provide recommendations for State and local action to protect ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB970 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for insulin or an insulin analog used to treat an insured's or enrollee's Type 1, Type 2, or gestat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB757 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting insurance carriers that offer life insurance or disability insurance policies or contracts from unfairly discriminating against an individual by taking certain actions relating to coverage based on medical information; prohibiting certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB611 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to promote access to health insurance for child care professionals; and requiring the Exchange to conduct a survey, developed in consultation with the State Department of Education and relevant nonprofit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB840 | Enroll
75% | Requiring certain public senior higher education institutions to adopt a plan regarding pregnant and parenting students to include referral to on-campus or off-campus services to assist regarding the availability of or eligibility for certain governm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB859 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to promote access to health insurance for child care professionals; and requiring the Exchange to conduct a survey, in consultation with the State Department of Education and relevant nonprofit organizat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB547 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Commission to Study Health Insurance Pooling to study the pooling of public employee health insurance purchasing between the State, counties, municipal corporations, and county boards of education in the State to maximize value and e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB659 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain carriers from imposing a prior authorization, step therapy, or quantity limit requirement on eligible providers for health care services that are included in a two-sided incentive arrangement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB869 | Enroll
75% | Repealing the limitation on the period during which the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide reimbursement for certain health care servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB848 | Enroll
75% | Requiring that certain adverse decision and grievance decision notices include certain information in a certain manner; requiring that the information regarding criteria and standards for utilization review that a private review agent is required to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB956 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a carrier to pay the same commission rates to an insurance producer for the sale of certain Medicare supplement policies without regard to whether the policies are sold during an open enrollment period, as underwritten policies, or under ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1100 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in collaboration with the Commission on Health Equity, to develop a clear and easy-to-understand graphic data dashboard that includes age-adjusted health disparity data disaggregated by race, ethnicity, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1478 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in consultation with certain stakeholders, to submit a report on the feasibility of establishing and maintaining an online directory of home health care providers to certain committees of the General Assem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB156 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Workgroup on Universal Newborn Nurse Home Visiting Services; requiring the Workgroup to compile updated patient data and expenditure per patient from programs currently operating in the State, identify certain service gaps and potent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB297 | Enroll
75% | Renaming the State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Pilot Program to be the State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Program; repealing the termination date of certain provisions of law that establish and govern the funding for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB372 | Enroll
75% | Repealing the limitation on the period during which the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide reimbursement for certain health care servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB684 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in collaboration with the Commission on Health Equity, to develop a clear and easy-to-understand graphic data dashboard that includes age-adjusted health disparity data disaggregated by race, ethnicity, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB939 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Commission for Women to establish the Maryland Collaborative to Advance Implementation of Coverage of Over-the-Counter Birth Control to study access to over-the-counter birth control; and requiring the Collaborative to submit a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB930 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care clinical services for individuals in the State; establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB936 | Enroll
75% | Requiring that a carrier provide notice by certain electronic means, in addition to written notice, of cancellation or nonrenewal of a small group market health benefit plan and include information regarding additional health benefit coverage options...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1087 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for certain prescription drugs prescribed by a treating physician to treat a symptom of or side eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1045 | Enroll
75% | Updating references to federal law related to family planning services, grandfathered plans, explanation of benefits, summaries of benefits and coverage, medical loss ratios, catastrophic plans, annual limits for cost sharing, prescription drugs, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1243 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from excluding coverage for certain specialty drugs that are administered or dispensed by a provider that is an in-network provider of covered medical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB11 | Enroll
75% | Repealing the June 30, 2025, termination date for certain provisions of law related to referrals to and reimbursement of specialists and nonphysician specialists who are not part of a carrier's provider panel; prohibiting certain carriers from imposi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB5 | Enroll
75% | Renaming the State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Pilot Program to be the State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Program; repealing the termination date of certain provisions of law that establish and govern the funding for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB459 | Enroll
75% | Requiring counties that offer self-insured employee health benefit plans to provide to firefighters employed by the county coverage for preventive cancer screenings in accordance with certain guidelines; authorizing a county to satisfy the requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
Returned Passed |
