| MD | SB874 | Intro
25% | 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Withdrawn by Sponsor |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 | SB794 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Social Work Examiners to establish a process to review and approve a person seeking to become an authorized sponsor of social work continuing education programs, subject to a requirement that at least one pathway for appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB1185 | Intro
25% | Requiring professional and occupational regulatory boards to issue licenses, certifications, and registrations to individuals who complete an apprenticeship program that is established under certain provisions of the Act, pass a certain examination, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1182 | Intro
25% | Applying to certain veterinary and health care professionals certain provisions of law stating that certain noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in certain employment contracts are null and void as being against the public policy of the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB995 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB1020 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB786 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force on Access to Pharmacy Services and the Impact of Telepharmacy in Maryland to analyze access to pharmacy services and identify barriers to pharmacy services and telepharmacy; and requiring the Task Force to submit an interi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB888 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a local behavioral health authority to hire its own inspectors to monitor behavioral health program quality and safety; requiring a local behavioral health authority to track complaints against behavioral health programs and health care p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB1016 | Intro
25% | Requiring health care providers who are authorized to prescribe to double the amount of each drug prescribed for a child if a parent of the child presents the prescriber with a court order of joint legal custody with a right of medical decision makin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB1021 | Intro
25% | Altering the reimbursement levels for drug products that the Maryland Medical Assistance Program is required to establish and that pharmacy benefits managers that contract with a pharmacy on behalf of a managed care organization are required to reimb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB947 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Abortion Care Access Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care services for individuals in the State; establishing the Abortion Care Access Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to provide grants u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB62 | Intro
25% | Allowing a licensed direct-entry midwife to assume or take responsibility for a client who had a previous cesarean section and regulating the circumstances under which the responsibility may be assumed or taken; altering the required contents of a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB208 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to increase the hourly reimbursement rate for certain personal assistance services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to a minimum of $25 per hour; requiring provider agencies to pay the greater ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB330 | Intro
25% | Requiring that an individual shall have received a master's degree rather than a baccalaureate degree to be licensed as a dietician-nutritionist.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB1110 | Intro
25% | Requiring child advocacy centers to report annually to the Behavioral Health Administration certain information related to behavioral health care services provided at the center; requiring the Administration to include in its annual report certain in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB431 | Intro
25% | Establishing that governmental essential workers are presumed to have an occupational disease that is compensable under workers' compensation law after being diagnosed with long COVID under certain circumstances; and applying the Act retroactively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB754 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain health insurance entities from taking certain actions with respect to the dispensing of clinician-administered drugs and related services; and authorizing certain health insurance entities to allow the use of a certain pharmacy or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB732 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Juvenile Services and the Maryland Department of Health to establish a certain inpatient program for children who have been adjudicated delinquent to provide rehabilitation, comprehensive care, and holistic therapies that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB506 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Physicians to adopt regulations authorizing a licensed physician to file an application for administrative expungement of a disciplinary record with the Board and establishing a process for the grant or denial of an admin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB716 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to reimburse physicians billing for maternal fetal medicine services at the rate set under the federal Medicare fee schedule.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB137 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Registered Nurse Degree Apprenticeship Program Workgroup to study the feasibility of developing and implementing a registered nurse degree apprenticeship program in the State; and requiring the Workgroup, on or before April 1, 2025, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB204 | Intro
25% | Entering into the Social Work Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing regulated social workers who hold interstate compact licenses to practice social work in member states; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; establishing th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB124 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for annual behavioral health wellness visits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB359 | Intro
25% | Entering into the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact; establishing criteria for participating states; authorizing an advanced practice registered nurse to practice in a party state under certain scope of practice rules; establishing the Inter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB526 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain pharmacy benefits managers from requiring a beneficiary to use a specific pharmacy or entity for a specialty drug if the drug is dispensed by a physician, used in the treatment of a certain condition, and meets other requirements;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB487 | Intro
25% | Altering the reimbursement rate at which health maintenance organizations are required to pay nonparticipating health care providers for services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB443 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making certain requests; establishing requirements and prohibitions governing aid in dying, including requirements related to requests for aid in dying, consulting physicians, mental health assessm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB347 | Intro
25% | Authorizing designated medical personnel to administer medical cannabis to qualifying patients only if the cannabis is obtained through the qualifying patients caregiver and is administered in accordance with the certifying provider's written instruc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB398 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the reimbursement of certain physicians, qualified health care providers, and hospitals by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board for certain forensic examinations of and health care services provided to a victim of nonfatal strangulati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB128 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Parole Commission to consider the age of incarcerated individuals when determining whether to grant parole; altering how the Commission evaluates a request for medical parole; requiring the Commission to develop procedures for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB328 | Intro
25% | Requiring that the Governor's proposed budget for each of fiscal years 2026, 2027, and 2028 include an 8% reimbursement rate increase for providers of certain health care services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, the Maryland Children's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-13
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB211 | Intro
25% | Altering certain HIV and syphilis reporting and testing requirements for hospitals and health care providers for pregnant women and newborns, including by requiring that the pregnancy status of certain individuals be included in certain reports and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB218 | Intro
25% | Repealing obsolete and redundant language in, clarifying language in, and reorganizing certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Physicians and the regulation of physicians, physician assistants, and allied health professions; altering p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB3 | Intro
25% | Requiring health occupations boards to issue an expedited temporary license, certificate, registration, or permit to a service member, veteran, or military spouse who meets certain requirements; requiring each health occupations board to include a ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB246 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Nonoccupational Postexposure Prophylaxis (nPEP) Standing Order Program to authorize pharmacists and health care providers to prescribe or dispense nPEP under certain circumstances; and authorizing the Maryland Department of Health to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB235 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "dispenser" for purposes of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to include certain licensed veterinarians when dispensing controlled substances for animals in the usual course of providing professional services; and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
