| MD | SB898 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide reimbursement for applied behavior analysis services provided by behavior technicians to Program recipients with autism spectrum disorder under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program; prohibitin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-31
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 867 |
| MD | SB42 | Pass | Providing that a registered reduction operator is not civilly liable for transferring and a veterans service organization is not civilly liable for receiving unclaimed hydrolyzed or soil remains of a veteran or an eligible dependent of a veteran for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 693 |
| MD | SB242 | Pass | Authorizing active service members and spouses, under certain circumstances, to practice in the State under an occupational or professional license issued in another state; and altering the definition of "eligible veteran" for purposes of certain pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 694 |
| MD | SB238 | Pass | Entering into the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing licensed school psychologists who hold multistate licenses to provide school psychological services in member states; establishing requirements for mult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 616 |
| MD | HB340 | Pass | Entering into the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing licensed school psychologists who hold multistate licenses to provide school psychological services in member states; establishing requirements for mult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 617 |
| MD | HB684 | Pass | Requiring certain health systems to comply with certain insurance provisions regarding notice of termination of contracts; altering the notification requirements a carrier is required to provide an enrollee regarding changes to the carrier's provider...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 651 |
| MD | HB677 | Pass | Providing that a registered reduction operator is not civilly liable for transferring and a veterans service organization is not civilly liable for receiving unclaimed hydrolyzed or soil remains of a veteran or an eligible dependent of a veteran for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 692 |
| MD | SB891 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for screening for perinatal behavioral health conditions at certain times; requiring the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 636 |
| MD | SB892 | Pass | Altering the membership of the State Advisory Council on Health and Wellness; requiring health occupations boards that require licensees or certificate holders to complete certain continuing education to grant at least 2 hours for every hour of conti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 605 |
| MD | SB813 | Pass | Prohibiting certain insurers and dental plan organizations from prohibiting an assignment of benefits to a provider who is a dentist by an insured or refusing to directly reimburse a nonpreferred provider who is a dentist; requiring a nonpreferred pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 737 |
| MD | HB1118 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for screening for perinatal behavioral health conditions at certain times; requiring the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 637 |
| MD | HB1091 | Pass | Prohibiting certain insurers and dental plan organizations from prohibiting an assignment of benefits to a provider who is a dentist by an insured or refusing to directly reimburse a nonpreferred provider who is a dentist; requiring a nonpreferred pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 736 |
| MD | HB1365 | Pass | Altering the membership of the State Advisory Council on Health and Wellness; requiring certain health occupations boards to grant a certain number of hours for every hour of continuing education for menopause and menopause-associated symptoms; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 606 |
| MD | HB396 | Pass | Repealing the maximum age for children in certain residential child care programs who receive educational support; requiring operators of certain residential child care programs to provide certain educational opportunities to the children for whom th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 640 |
| 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 | SB46 | Pass | Defining the term "interment location" for the purposes of provisions of law governing the interment of individuals in State veterans' cemeteries; and requiring the Department of Veterans and Military Families to provide an outer burial receptacle, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 495 |
| MD | SB150 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of the Environment, the Department of General Services, and units in the Maryland Department of Labor to include a notation on public profiles of licensees, certificate holders, and security identification card holders indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 491 |
| MD | HB364 | Pass | Defining the term "interment location" for the purposes of provisions of law governing the interment of individuals in State veterans' cemeteries; and requiring the Department of Veterans and Military Families to provide an outer burial receptacle, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 496 |
| MD | SB418 | Pass | Authorizing members of the Foreign Service and spouses of members of the Foreign Service, for the duration of the assignment or detail, to practice in the State under an occupational or professional license issued in another state under certain circu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 493 |
| MD | SB806 | Pass | Establishing and altering requirements related to criminal history records checks for certain licenses and certificates issued by certain health occupations boards, including the State Board of Acupuncture, the State Board of Dental Examiners, the St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 371 |
| MD | HB1120 | Pass | Authorizing members of the Foreign Service and spouses of members of the Foreign Service, under certain circumstances, to practice in the State under an occupational or professional license issued in another State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 492 |
| MD | HB1372 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission, in collaboration with the Office of Health Care Quality within the Maryland Department of Health, to develop a process to receive and publish certain inspection information on the Commission's Maryland Q...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 369 |
| MD | HB1420 | Pass | Establishing and altering requirements related to criminal history records checks for certain licenses and certificates issued by certain health occupations boards, including the State Board of Acupuncture, the State Board of Dental Examiners, the St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 370 |
| MD | SB294 | Pass | Prohibiting a court or a party in a criminal or juvenile delinquency case from disclosing or allowing inspection of a certain court filing or record to a nonparty unless the court or the party redacts certain identifying information relating to a cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 542 |
| MD | HB564 | Pass | Establishing certain consumer protection requirements for registered cemeterians, registered cemetery operators, and certain permit holders and licensees that sell or offer for sale pet cremation services for pet remains; establishing the duties of c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 547 |
| MD | SB18 | Pass | Establishing a provisional social work license through which an individual issued a provisional social work license may receive a full license; requiring the Board, beginning November 1, 2026, to issue a provisional license to an applicant who, excep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 226 |
| MD | SB83 | Pass | Altering the grounds for discipline by certain health occupations boards to include being disciplined by any branch of the uniformed services or the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; and altering the grounds for discipline of a naturopathic doctor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 335 |
| MD | HB42 | Pass | Authorizing an individual registered by the State Board of Massage Therapy Examiners to practice massage therapy in the State to continue to practice massage therapy beyond October 31, 2026; altering the requirements an individual must meet to qualif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 192 |
| MD | HB374 | Pass | Requiring the State Acupuncture Board to make available proof of renewal, rather than issuing a renewal certificate; prohibiting a person from employing an individual to practice acupuncture without a license or aiding or abetting the unauthorized pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 233 |
| MD | HB377 | Pass | Altering certain provisions of law to include physician assistants in the health care practitioners who may take certain actions, including actions related to the guardianship of disabled persons, admission of individuals to mental health facilities,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 223 |
| MD | SB326 | Pass | Altering certain provisions of law to include physician assistants in the health care practitioners who may take certain actions, including actions related to the guardianship of disabled persons, admissions to mental health facilities and the Emerge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 222 |
| MD | HB422 | Pass | Adding bacterial vaginosis to the list of diagnoses for which certain health care practitioners may prescribe, dispense, or otherwise provide antibiotic therapy to a sexual partner of a diagnosed patient without making a personal physical assessment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 194 |
| MD | HB446 | Pass | Altering the duties of the Virginia I. Jones Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Council to include an examination of the capacity of health care providers to deliver care to certain individuals and to identify methods by which the State can as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 239 |
| MD | SB370 | Pass | Requiring the State Acupuncture Board to make available proof of renewal, rather than issuing a renewal certificate; prohibiting a person from employing an individual to practice acupuncture without a license or aiding or abetting the unauthorized pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 234 |
| MD | SB394 | Pass | Adding bacterial vaginosis to the list of diagnoses for which certain health care practitioners may prescribe, dispense, or otherwise provide antibiotic therapy to a sexual partner of a diagnosed patient without making a personal physical assessment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 193 |
| MD | SB412 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that a forensic review board provide notice to certain individuals within a certain time period after issuing a recommendation; establishing the Community Forensic Aftercare Program in the Maryland Department of Health to mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 237 |
| MD | SB419 | Pass | Authorizing an individual registered by the State Board of Massage Therapy Examiners to practice massage therapy in the State to continue to practice massage therapy beyond October 31, 2026; altering the requirements an individual must meet to qualif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 191 |
| MD | SB411 | Pass | Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to comply with certain staffing standards, to establish and maintain a clinical staffing committee, and to implement a clinical staffing plan; requiring the chief nursing executive of each hospital to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 235 |
| MD | SB413 | Pass | Transferring the authority to regulate certain crematories and reduction facilities from the Office of Cemetery Oversight to the State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors; altering the circumstances under which the Governor may remove an appoin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 187 |
| MD | HB624 | Pass | Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to comply with certain staffing standards to establish and maintain a clinical staffing committee and to implement a clinical staffing plan; requiring each staffing committee to develop a staffing pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 236 |
| MD | HB698 | Pass | Transferring the authority to regulate certain crematories and reduction facilities from the Office of Cemetery Oversight to the State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors; altering the circumstances under which the Governor may remove an appoin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 188 |
| MD | HB769 | Pass | Establishing a provisional social work license through which an individual issued a provisional social work license may receive a full license; and requiring the Board, beginning in 2027, to report to certain committees of the General Assembly on the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 227 |
| MD | HB771 | Pass | Requiring each health occupations board to allow an applicant seeking license or certificate renewal to receive continuing education credits for completing a certain human trafficking awareness training program, conduct outreach to make individuals r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 205 |
| MD | SB555 | Pass | Altering the duties of the Virginia I. Jones Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Council; establishing the Dementia Services and Brain Health Program in the Maryland Department of Health to lead the State's public health efforts relating to bra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 240 |
| MD | SB647 | Pass | Requiring a certain line-of-duty disability allowance to be paid to a member of the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System or the State Police Retirement System who is found to be totally and permanently incapacitated, either mentally or physically...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 306 |
| MD | HB1047 | Pass | Requiring an individual to be registered with the State Board of Physicians to perform limited X-ray machine operations in the State; establishing certain disciplinary procedures for limited X-ray machine operators; recodifying certain provisions of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 213 |
| MD | SB778 | Pass | Establishing a clinical research pharmacy permit; authorizing the State Board of Pharmacy to issue a clinical research pharmacy permit; authorizing a health care provider to hold an ownership interest in a clinical research pharmacy under certain cir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 206 |
| MD | SB773 | Pass | Authorizing a pharmacist to order certain vaccinations for individuals who are at least 3 years old without having to also administer the vaccination.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 269 |
| MD | SB915 | Pass | Requiring an individual to be registered with the State Board of Physicians to perform limited X-ray machine operations in the State; establishing certain disciplinary procedures for limited X-ray machine operators; recodifying certain provisions of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 214 |
| MD | HB1181 | Pass | Altering provisions relating to children who are placed in an out-of-home placement by a local department of social services under a voluntary placement agreement; requiring, by October 1, 2029, the Department of Human Services and the Maryland Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 159 |
