| MD | HB176 | Pass | Requiring the Correctional Training Commission to adopt regulations for the training, issuance, and use of body-worn cameras by January 1, 2026; establishing the Public Employees' Safety and Health Unit in the Division of Labor and Industry to admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 609 |
| MD | SB26 | Pass | Requiring the Correctional Training Commission to adopt regulations for the training, issuance, and use of body-worn cameras by January 1, 2026; establishing the Public Employees' Safety and Health Unit in the Division of Labor and Industry to admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 608 |
| MD | HB39 | Pass | Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 651 |
| MD | SB156 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 720 |
| MD | SB163 | Pass | Replacing references to mental hygiene with references to mental health in certain provisions of law governing public health; establishing that, by July 1, 2027, the Department of Health shall conduct a thorough review of Department regulations and a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 760 |
| MD | HB352 | Pass | Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 604 |
| 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 | HB420 | Pass | Altering the defined term "auto-injectable epinephrine" to be "emergency use epinephrine" and to include certain drug delivery devices and products; and altering the name of the Emergency Use Auto-Injectable Epinephrine Program to be the Emergency Us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 711 |
| MD | SB356 | Pass | Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 652 |
| MD | SB423 | Pass | Repealing obsolete and redundant language in, clarifying language in, and making language consistent across certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Physicians and the regulation of physicians, physician assistants, and allied health pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 675 |
| MD | SB459 | Pass | Altering the defined term "auto-injectable epinephrine" to be "emergency use epinephrine" and to include certain drug delivery devices and products; and altering the name of the Emergency Use Auto-Injectable Epinephrine Program to be the Emergency Us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 710 |
| MD | HB718 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 696 |
| MD | HB722 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to submit reports on or before December 1, 2025, and December 1, 2026, to the Senate Finance Committee, the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee, the House Health and Government Operations Committee, and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 697 |
| MD | HB757 | Pass | Altering the amount the Governor is authorized to include in the annual budget for the Program from $500,000 to at least $1,000,000; and authorizing the Secretary to use up to 20% of Program funds to support research centers, including the University...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 639 |
| MD | HB729 | Pass | Altering the training that the Maryland Department of Health is authorized to provide under the Overdose Response Program to include emphasis on the restoration of breathing, avoiding withdrawal, and compassionate postoverdose support and care; clari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 698 |
| MD | HB745 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists to issue a license to practice behavior analysis to qualified applicants within 30 days of receiving the completed application; requiring the State Board to issue a license within 50...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 755 |
| MD | SB599 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2029 an appropriation of $5,000,000 to the Behavioral Health Crisis Response Grant Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 666 |
| MD | SB594 | Pass | Altering the training that the Maryland Department of Health is authorized to provide under the Overdose Response Program to include emphasis on the restoration of breathing, avoiding withdrawal, and compassionate postoverdose support and care; clari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 699 |
| MD | HB765 | Pass | 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 or a nonprofit organization for the purpose of canceling the debt; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 750 |
| MD | HB776 | Pass | Repealing obsolete and redundant language in, clarifying language in, and making language consistent across certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Physicians and the regulation of physicians, physician assistants, and allied health pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 676 |
| MD | HB813 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 730 |
| MD | SB684 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 662 |
| MD | HB871 | Pass | Altering the definition of "community benefit" to include a community health worker workforce program which is intended to provide services to patients of a nonprofit hospital and to improve health outcomes; authorizing a nonprofit hospital and a com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 752 |
| MD | HB995 | Pass | Establishing the Workgroup to Study the Rise in Adverse Decisions in the State Health Care System to make recommendations to improve State reporting on adverse decisions, reduce the number of adverse decisions, and develop recommendations for legisla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 672 |
| MD | SB776 | Pass | Establishing the Workgroup to Study the Rise in Adverse Decisions in the State Health Care System to review existing State adverse decision reporting requirements for all health payers in the State and make recommendations to improve State reporting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 671 |
| MD | SB740 | Pass | Authorizing each health care facility to screen each patient for information on whether the patient is a service member community member, include on the patient's medical record whether the patient is a service member community member, and meet cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 757 |
| MD | HB1004 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in partnership with certain entities, to incorporate information regarding treatments approved by the Food and Drug Administration for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and to increase understandin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 681 |
| 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 | SB748 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in partnership with certain entities, to incorporate information regarding treatments approved by the Food and Drug Administration for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and to increase understandin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 682 |
| 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 | HB971 | Pass | Establishing the Anne Arundel County Crownsville Hospital Memorial Park Advisory Committee to provide advice on the planning of the Park; requiring the Advisory Committee to make recommendations to ensure that the Park focuses on mental and physical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 657 |
| MD | SB790 | Pass | Requiring the Behavioral Health Advisory Council and the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access, through its workgroup on youth behavioral health, individuals with developmental disabilities, and individuals with complex behavioral...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 686 |
| MD | SB849 | Pass | Altering the amount the Governor is authorized to include in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program from $500,000 to $1,000,000; and authorizing the Secretary of Health to use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 640 |
| MD | SB921 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 707 |
| MD | HB1087 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 706 |
| MD | HB1066 | Pass | Requiring the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access to establish a workgroup on the improvement of health, social, and economic outcomes related to substance use; requiring the workgroup to make recommendations on changes to State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 763 |
| MD | HB1083 | Pass | Requiring the Behavioral Health Advisory Council and the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access, through its workgroup, to implement Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment requirements; requiring the workgroup to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 687 |
| MD | HB1104 | Pass | Clarifying that electronic health care transactions information may be used to support the participation of the State in the States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model and any successor models; establishing the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 615 |
| MD | HB1100 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 663 |
| MD | SB937 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue loans, in addition to grants, for certain purposes relating to reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from certain multifamily residential buildings; requiring the Maryland En...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 625 |
| MD | HB1131 | Pass | Establishing the Buprenorphine Training Grant Program to assist counties with offsetting the cost of training paramedics to administer buprenorphine; including the Program as an authorized use of funding from the Opioid Restitution Fund; requiring th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 759 |
| MD | HB1142 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Interested Parties Advisory Group to ensure adequate access to applicable home- and community-based services in the State; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide certain support to the Advisory Group; and req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 754 |
| MD | HB1143 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Collaborative to Improve Children's Oral Health Through School-Based Programs to study and make recommendations on ways to improve school-based dental programs; and requiring the Collaborative to submit an interim report by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 753 |
| MD | HB1035 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue loans, in addition to grants, for certain purposes relating to reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from certain multifamily residential buildings; requiring the Maryland En...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 626 |
| MD | HB1315 | Pass | Altering the vaccinations that a pharmacist may administer, subject to certain requirements, to an individual of at least a certain age; and altering the vaccinations included in the minimum package of child wellness services for which certain healt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 738 |
| MD | HB1301 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 612 |
| MD | HB1244 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration Waiver Advisory Council to advise and provide recommendations to the Developmental Disabilities Administration on system design, service delivery, and quality enhancement strategies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 756 |
| MD | HB1474 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 649 |
