| MD | SB169 | Pass | Requiring a hospital to conduct screening on a patient presenting at an emergency department of the hospital to determine whether the patient has an emergency pregnancy-related medical condition; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 788 |
| MD | HB372 | Pass | Requiring a hospital to conduct screening on a patient presenting at an emergency department of the hospital to determine whether the patient has an emergency pregnancy-related medical condition; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 789 |
| 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 | SB890 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration to conduct a study on the use, regulation, and taxation of captive insurance companies by entities in the State and report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Senate Finance Committ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 638 |
| 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 | HB1326 | Pass | Expanding the circumstances under which a report or record concerning child abuse or neglect may be disclosed by the Department of Human Services to include the administrator of a certain child care center, the coach, team administrator, or manager o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 790 |
| MD | HB1151 | Veto | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission and the Maryland Medical Assistance Program jointly to study the impact of requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide reimbursement for room and board services provided by a hospice hous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-22
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| 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 | 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 | HB672 | Pass | Altering which entities are eligible to receive grants from the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund to exclude certain physicians, laboratories, and persons, and include certain nonprofit institutions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 220 |
| MD | SB707 | Pass | Defining "danger to the life or safety of the individual or of others" for purposes of the involuntary admission of individuals with mental disorders to a facility or Veterans' Administration hospital and the emergency evaluation of individuals with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 177 |
| MD | SB792 | Pass | Requiring hospitals in the State to adopt a policy describing the protocol of the hospital when there is an immigration enforcement action at the hospital; and requiring hospitals to make the immigration enforcement action policy available to all sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 162 |
| MD | SB777 | Pass | Altering the program the Maryland Department of Labor is required to establish for the retraining and placement of certain hospital employees; requiring the Department to allocate money from the Hospital Employees Retraining Fund to local workforce d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 298 |
| 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 | 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 | HB1160 | Pass | Altering the statutory reference to the name Calvert Memorial Hospital to be CalvertHealth Medical Center, Inc., and its successors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 338 |
| 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 |
| MD | HB1367 | Pass | Establishing a Commission on Re-Imagining Health Care to envision and make recommendations regarding establishing a comprehensive, patient-centered health care system in the State; and requiring the Commission to submit a preliminary report by Decem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 244 |
| MD | HB1376 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and the Maryland Children's Health Program to provide a prior authorization determination regarding a transfer on request of a special pediatric hospital within 3 business days after the request is re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 325 |
| MD | HB1559 | Pass | Prohibiting the placement of children in unlicensed settings under the out-of-home placement program required to be established by the Social Services Administration; altering the duties of the pediatric hospital overstay coordinators; establishing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 160 |
| MD | HB1563 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Insurance Commission to conduct an examination of certain decisions by carriers related to claims or authorization requests for services in, or related to services, in emergency departments; requiring the Maryland Health Care...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 165 |
| MD | HB1012 | Pass | Authorizing a county or municipality to establish a local suicide fatality review team to coordinate with certain local child fatality review teams and the State Suicide Fatality Review Committee; authorizing a team to review suicide deaths in the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 328 |
| MD | HB1109 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to organize the Maryland Medical Reserve Corps; requiring the Department to notify each health officer for a county of a certain procurement to offer the opportunity for the county health department to join...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 190 |
| MD | SB1007 | Pass | Amending certain prior authorizations of State Debt to change the names of certain grantees, alter the authorized uses of certain grants, and extend the termination date of certain grants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 176 |
| MD | HB243 | Pass | Altering the required elements of comprehensive and general plans for charter counties and other local jurisdictions; establishing requirements and guidelines for each element; and requiring certain State agencies to provide charter counties and othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 110 |
| MD | SB197 | Pass | Altering the required elements of comprehensive and general plans for charter counties and other local jurisdictions; establishing requirements and guidelines for each element; requiring certain State agencies to provide charter counties and other lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 111 |
| MD | HB322 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Maryland Health Care Commission by reducing from nine to eight the number of members who are individuals who do not have any connection with the management or policy of a health care provider or payor and including an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 38 |
| MD | SB260 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Maryland Health Care Commission by reducing from nine to eight the number of members who are individuals who do not have any connection with the management or policy of a health care provider or payor and including an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 39 |
| MD | SB348 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the requirement that a hospital or freestanding birthing center contact the birth parent after the delivery of a newborn following a high-risk pregnancy to evaluate the birthing parent's status and, as necessary, provide certain information ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Third Reading Passed (100-34) |
| MD | SB489 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the exemption from certain educational requirements required for a license to practice medicine for certain applicants who have studied at an international medical school; authorizing the State Board of Physicians, beginning October 1, 2028,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (128-9) |
| MD | SB611 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission and the Maryland Medical Assistance Program jointly to study the impact of requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide reimbursement for room and board services provided by a hospice hous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-11
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB515 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Commission, in carrying out certain responsibilities relating to evaluating facility resources to meet certain financial requirements and reviewing costs and rates of hospital services, to take into account all reasonable costs incurr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
Third Reading Passed (131-2) |
| MD | HB1014 | Engross
Sine Die | Defining "danger to the life or safety of the individual or of others" for purposes of the involuntary admission of individuals with mental disorders to a facility or Veterans' Administration hospital and the emergency evaluation of individuals with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1018 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services to adopt regulations establishing certain minimum mandatory standards governing the care, custody, and conditions of civil detainees in immigration detention facilities; altering cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB870 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on certain information related to adolescent psychiatric inpatient bed capacity in the State; and requiring the Department to report to the Governor and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-24
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB1348 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing mandated reporters to report suspected labor trafficking or sex trafficking of a child to a regional navigator; and authorizing the Attorney General or a State's Attorney to investigate and prosecute human trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB599 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that hospitals, to qualify for a license on or after October 1, 2026, qualify as a nonprofit organization under federal law and be registered as a nonprofit organization with the State; requiring hospitals that receive licensure on or after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1597 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing an unregulated space in hospital operating suites pilot project; requiring the Health Services Cost Review Commission to administer the pilot project; requiring the Commission to develop certain criteria and standards for the pilot proje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-17
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB1323 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring hospitals to establish a surrogate committee to provide surrogate decision making for an unrepresented patient; authorizing the surrogate committee to make treatment decisions for unrepresented patients under certain circumstances; and esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB1468 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a hospital to prepare a safe discharge labor plan before discharging or transferring a patient in active labor, subject to a certain exception; requiring a hospital to maintain records of safe discharge labor plans for at least 21 years; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Health Committee |
| MD | SB118 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposing an excise tax on certain gross receipts of certain firearms dealers derived from the sales of firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition in the State and sales of firearms to State residents; and requiring the Comptroller to distribute a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1228 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting premiums on lawfully procured captive insurance by nonprofit hospitals and health care systems located in the State from the State insurance premium receipts tax imposed on unauthorized insurers and persons insured by unauthorized insurers;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-17
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1060 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop and certain schools to implement a system to track and report certain petitions for emergency evaluations made during the school year; requiring county boards of education, certain schools, and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1051 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Meds-to-Beds Program in the Maryland Department of Health: providing the purpose of the Program is to reduce hospital readmissions by using a licensed pharmacist to deliver discharge medications to patients before they leave the hosp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB515 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that the hospital representative on a local drug overdose fatality review team be a vice president, a chief medical officer, or an assistant medical officer at the hospital.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB1451 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop and implement a standard system to collect and compile annual data on the costs of prenatal care, birth, postpartum care, pregnancy care, abortion services, and menopausal care in the State; esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Health Committee |
| MD | SB832 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain nonprofit hospitals to provide a certain value of community benefits each year; requiring the Health Services Cost Review Commission to report on the compliance of nonprofit hospitals with the community benefits requirement to the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1092 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to ensure the establishment and ongoing operation of a minimum 24 licensed adolescent psychiatric inpatient beds in Prince George's County; requiring, if the Department determines that expanding the bed cap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-11
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB1136 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain nonprofit hospitals to provide a certain value of community benefits each year; requiring the Health Services Cost Review Commission to report on the compliance of nonprofit hospitals with the community benefits requirement to the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-11
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB197 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposing an excise tax on certain gross receipts of certain firearms dealers derived from the sales of firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition in the State and sales of firearms to residents of the State; requiring the Comptroller to distribute...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
