| MD | SB357 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Prescription Drug Affordability Stakeholder Council; requiring the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, under certain circumstances, to establish a process for setting upper payment limits for purchases and payor reim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 610 |
| MD | HB424 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Prescription Drug Affordability Stakeholder Council; requiring the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, under certain circumstances, to establish a process for setting upper payment limits for purchases and payor reim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 611 |
| MD | HB443 | Pass | Altering the statement that must be included on a baby food product label if the baby food product has been tested for toxic heavy metals for the purpose of changing the term included on the label from "toxic heavy metal" to "toxic element".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 713 |
| MD | HB936 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 744 |
| MD | HB996 | Pass | Requiring a retailer that prepares, distributes, sells, or exposes for sale a phenibut product to disclose the factual basis on which any representations regarding the phenibut product are made; establishing prohibitions related to the preparation, d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 704 |
| MD | SB474 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 670 |
| MD | SB773 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 692 |
| MD | HB31 | Pass | Requiring, in order to make repairs to powered wheelchairs, that a certain manufacturer make available certain documentation, parts, embedded software, firmware, and tools to a certain independent repair provider or owner of a powered wheelchair; pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 546 |
| MD | SB758 | Pass | Establishing certain requirements for elections of the governing body of a condominium or homeowners association; requiring that the governing body of a condominium accommodate unit owner organizing activities relating to the governance of the condom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 512 |
| MD | HB1045 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 469 |
| MD | SB964 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of the Environment, at the request of the Dorchester County government and the local health department or county agency in Dorchester County that has received a well or on-site sewage disposal system delegation of authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 424 |
| MD | HB1124 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of the Environment, at the request of the Dorchester County government and the local health department or county agency in Dorchester County that has received a well or on-site sewage disposal system delegation of authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 425 |
| MD | SB49 | Pass | Requiring a person who makes an automatic renewal offer to consumers to allow a consumer to cancel the automatic renewal in a cost-effective, timely, and easy-to-use manner; requiring automatic renewal offers to be displayed in a certain manner and c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 204 |
| MD | HB107 | Pass | Requiring a person who makes an automatic renewal offer to consumers to allow a consumer to cancel the automatic renewal in a cost-effective, timely, and easy-to-use manner; requiring automatic renewal offers to be displayed in a certain manner and c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 205 |
| MD | HB208 | Pass | Prohibiting a person that is a seller from advertising or offering for sale a digital good using certain terminology unless, before executing the sale, a certain affirmative acknowledgment is received from the purchaser or a certain clear and conspic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 206 |
| MD | HB431 | Pass | Prohibiting a consumer contract from setting a shorter time to bring an action under or on the consumer contract than required by the law of the State; excluding certain entities from the application of this Act; and applying the Act prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 194 |
| MD | HB956 | Pass | Establishing the Workgroup on Artificial Intelligence Implementation; requiring the Workgroup to monitor and make recommendations related to the regulation of artificial intelligence, consumer protection, current private sector use of artificial inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 105 |
| MD | HB1020 | Pass | Prohibiting a consumer reporting agency from furnishing any consumer report containing certain adverse information relating to a consumer's medical debt, or any collection action against a consumer for medical debt, or maintain a file on a consumer r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 121 |
| MD | HB1424 | Pass | Renaming the Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund to be the Federal Government Employee Assistance Loan Fund; authorizing funds appropriated to the Catastrophic Event Account to be expended to assist in funding costs connected to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 97 |
| MD | HB505 | Engross
50% | Renaming the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean energy portfolio standard"; altering the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from clean energy sources in certain years under the clean energy portfolio standa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB834 | Engross
50% | Providing that a manufacturer, distributor, or factory branch may not take an adverse action against a dealer for disclosing on its website that the advertised price of a vehicle is the manufacturer's minimum allowable advertised price and that the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Second Reading Passed |
| 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 | HB858 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2031, a person from disposing of a mattress in a landfill, subject to certain exceptions; prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2031, a person from disposing of a mattress in an incinerator, subject to a certain ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1348 | Engross
50% | Altering the definition of "home improvement" to include the provision of certain disaster mitigating services for purposes of licensing and regulations of home improvement contractors; authorizing a certain owner to rescind a home improvement contra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB614 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a consumer reporting agency from including certain medical debt information in a consumer report; prohibiting a person from using medical debt information included in a consumer report when making a creditworthiness determination; prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1534 | Intro
25% | Establishing certain requirements for elections of the governing body of a condominium or homeowners association; requiring that the governing body of a condominium accommodate unit owner organizing activities relating to the governance of the condom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB604 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person who is a caregiver to or a family member or household member of an individual from knowingly and willfully obtaining the property of the individual with the intent to deprive the individual of the individual's property if the ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| 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 | SB883 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Post-Towing Procedure Workgroup to identify and examine issues relating to the establishment of statutory liens on motor vehicles that are towed or removed from privately owned parking lots under certain circumstances; and requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-0) |
| MD | SB382 | Engross
50% | Requiring, in order to make repairs to powered wheelchairs, that a certain manufacturer make available certain documentation, parts, embedded software, firmware, and tools to a certain independent repair provider or owner of a powered wheelchair; pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1168 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the minimum or ready to serve charge assessed by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to include a certain component; and authorizing the Commission to create customer classes within any meter size for the minimum or ready to serve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1557 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Program to Protect Individuals Unemployed or Furloughed Due to Federal Actions; requiring a credit reporting agency to place an adverse information freeze on a qualified individual's record; establishing requirements and prohibitions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB466 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person who is a caregiver to or a family member or household member of an individual from knowingly and willfully exerting unauthorized control over and obtaining the property of the individual with intent to deprive the individual of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB591 | Engross
50% | Increasing from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for the prosecution or suit for enforcement of local consumer protection codes for which equitable relief, a fine, or a penalty is provided.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB267 | Engross
50% | Establishing prohibitions and requirements regarding compensation for certain services related to veterans benefits matters; prohibiting a person that is not V.A. accredited from making certain guarantees; providing for the enforcement of the Act und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB332 | Engross
50% | Providing that consumer wire transfers involving electronic fund transfers made ancillary to bank-to-bank transfers via a wire service are subject to certain provisions of the federal Electronic Funds Transfer Act of 1978.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB830 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for genetic testing for certain individuals who may have an increased risk of developing cancer and follow-up evidence-based cancer i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1106 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Sellers of Travel Registration Fund in the Department of Labor to be used to cover the actual documented direct and indirect costs of fulfilling certain statutory and regulatory duties of the Department; authorizing the Department to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB194 | Engross
50% | Establishing that a consumer may request a merchant pay or refund the full amount of shipping costs incurred to return an item that is damaged, faulty, or sent in error; requiring a merchant that received a payment or refund request to provide the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB385 | Engross
50% | Requiring, beginning July 1, 2026, each business that uses a point-of-sale system that automatically prompts a customer to leave a tip to disclose that the tip is for employees and display a tip amount that is set at zero or a "no-tip" option, subje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB917 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain entities that process electronic payment transactions to exclude, under certain circumstances, the amount of tax and gratuity included in the electronic payment transaction from the amount on which an interchange fee is charged; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1240 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting health care providers and carriers from using artificial intelligence if the artificial intelligence has been designed only to reduce costs for a health care provider or carrier at the expense of reducing the quality of patient care, dela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1109 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, or exposing for sale a medetomidine product or a xylazine product unless the purchaser provides to the retailer certain proof; prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, or exposing for sale ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB875 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, or exposing for sale a medetomidine product or a xylazine product unless the purchaser provides to the retailer certain proof; prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, or exposing for sale ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1112 | Intro
25% | Altering the time limits for bringing an action for wrongful death or personal injury concerning exposure of a person to PFAS chemicals; and prohibiting a person, on or after July 1, 2026, from manufacturing, selling, or distributing in the State a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB990 | Intro
25% | Requiring, to make a claim under a warranty for certain agricultural equipment, a consumer to provide written notice to a certain parties to report a nonconformity, defect, or condition occurring in certain agricultural equipment; requiring certain p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1477 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements for consumer reporting agencies that use algorithmic systems to assemble or evaluate consumer credit information on consumers for the purpose of furnishing consumer reports to third parties; and requiring the Commissioner of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB413 | Engross
50% | Establishing that any provision of a consumer contract that sets a shorter period of time to bring an action under or on the consumer contract than is required under the law of the State at the time the contract is issued or delivered is void as agai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB922 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain providers of travel services to file with the Department of Labor evidence of financial security; requiring the Consumer Protection Division of the Attorney General's Office and the Department to provide reasonable notice of the req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1331 | Intro
25% | Regulating the manner in which a developer or deployer of artificial intelligence must protect consumers from certain risks; requiring a developer that offers to sell a certain artificial intelligence system to provide certain information and make ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
