| MD | SB187 | Pass | Altering the required specifications for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Department of General Services to submit a certain timeline of deliverables for the planning, design, and construction of the fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-31
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 876 |
| 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 | HB854 | Pass | Establishing the Nonpublic Special Education School Renovation Program in the Interagency Commission on School Construction to provide grant funding to certain nonpublic special education schools for certain renovations and improvements to classrooms...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 768 |
| MD | SB521 | 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 650 |
| MD | SB587 | Pass | Requiring, rather than authorizing, the Governor to include an appropriation of $1,000,000 to the Maryland Patient Safety Center Fund in the annual budget bill for fiscal year 2027 and each fiscal year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 626 |
| 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 | HB1087 | Pass | Requiring, by January 1, 2028, each health care facility that performs surgical procedures to adopt and implement policies that require the use of a smoke evacuation system during a surgical procedure that may generate surgical smoke.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 794 |
| 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 | HB457 | Pass | Requiring each institution of higher education that provides on-campus housing to provide, free of charge, menstrual hygiene products in all student health centers at the institution on or before August 1, 2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 722 |
| 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 | SB448 | Veto | Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Carroll County to borrow not more than $27,000,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of certain public facilities in Carroll County and to effect such borrowing by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-22
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB423 | Pass | Requiring, subject to certain conditions, the Prince George's County Board of Education to provide, at no charge, drink spiking detection products and drug detection strips to public high school students in the county through school-based health clin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 583 |
| MD | SB825 | Pass | Establishing the Critical Infrastructure Protection Branch in the Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center; requiring the Department of Emergency Management, in consultation with the Center, to take certain action in response to an attack on the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 446 |
| MD | HB1239 | Pass | Establishing the Critical Infrastructure Protection Branch in the Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center; requiring the Department of Emergency Management, in consultation with the Center, to take certain action in response to an attack on the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 447 |
| MD | SB39 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to conduct an independent cost-driven rate-setting study to set community provider rates for community-based behavioral health services; authorizing the Maryland Health Care Commission to require community ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 218 |
| 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 | HB772 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, rather than the Behavioral Health Administration and the Medical Care Programs Administration, to conduct a certain rate-setting study by June 30, 2028; establishing the Workgroup on Behavioral Health Rate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 219 |
| MD | HB927 | Pass | Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Carroll County to borrow not more than $27,000,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of certain public facilities in Carroll County and to effect such borrowing by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 343 |
| MD | HB939 | Pass | Authorizing the parent of a child to file a certificate of birth within 10 days after the birth occurred if the parent notified the person required to file the certificate of birth on a form provided by the Secretary of Health as soon as practicable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 323 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB498 | Pass | Repealing the exemption from the certificate of need requirement for a change in bed capacity for intermediate care facilities that offer substance use disorder treatment services; providing a certificate of need is not required for a change in bed c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 69 |
| MD | SB444 | Pass | Repealing the exemption from the certificate of need requirement for a change in bed capacity for intermediate care facilities that offer substance use disorder treatment services; providing a certificate of need is not required for a change in bed c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 68 |
| 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 | SB623 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a Class C-PCL (premium cigar lounge) alcoholic beverages license for use in conjunction with a tobacconist license; authorizing a local licensing board to issue the license; authorizing a local licensing board to permit the owner or oper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Hershey) Adopted |
| MD | HB598 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Board of Physicians, beginning January 1, 2028, to issue a limited license, not to exceed 3 years, to practice medicine to an internationally trained physician under certain circumstances; prohibiting the renewal of a limited l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance |
| 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 | 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 | HB1617 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the local zoning authority in a county to designate a health innovation zone, a contiguous area that demonstrates measurable and documented health disparities and poor health outcomes; requiring a county, if the local zoning authority des...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB279 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the establishment of a medication review committee within the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services that convenes to determine whether to approve the administration of psychotropic medication to a certain incarcerated indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB658 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that a forensic review board provide notice to certain individuals within a certain time period after issuing a recommendation to the court; establishing the Community Forensic Aftercare Program in the Maryland Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB931 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a physician, in order to be designated as a medical director of a nursing home, to hold a certain medical director certification or be making active progress toward obtaining the certification; and requiring each nursing home to publish on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1251 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that, on or after October 1, 2027, certain facilities provide patients with certain access to palliative care and inform patients about the availability of palliative care at certain times; requiring the Department of Health to adopt regula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-13
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB1487 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Baltimore City Mobile Infant and Maternal Health Pilot Program in the Maryland Department of Health; and requiring the Secretary to consult with the Baltimore City Health Department in the development and implementation of the Progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB385 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a rebuttable presumption in an action for personal injury or wrongful death that a medical bill from a health care provider or an agent of the health care provider is authentic, fair, and reasonable if the bill was properly provided in d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1184 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain nonprofit organizations from aiding or abetting certain activity by the government of Israel or a citizen of Israel; authorizing the Attorney General or a certain person to bring a certain action against a nonprofit organization t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1293 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring behavioral health programs that own, lease, operate, or control an inpatient facility to take certain affirmative and reasonable steps to determine whether a resident is required to register under the Maryland Sex Offender Registry; and req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB1481 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting tissue banks and hospitals from denying a patient a physician-ordered autologous or directed blood donation under certain circumstances; authorizing a patient or an individual authorized to make medical decisions on a patient's behalf to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB1531 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Helping Everyone Afford Life-Saving Treatments and Health Care (HEALTH) Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to assist Maryland Medical Assistance Program enrollees, insured individuals, and uninsured individuals with health c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-03
To House Health Committee |
| MD | SB878 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to conduct at least two on-site unannounced inspections of each certified recovery residence annually; authorizing the Department to direct the recovery residence credentialing entity to revoke the certific...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-02
To Senate Finance 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 | 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 | HB1146 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from committing a crime of violence while the person is in a medical facility or a place of worship; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction is subject to imprisonment of up to 10 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1131 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting individuals who experienced a pregnancy loss from being subject to investigation, civil liability, or criminal prosecution except under certain circumstances; establishing a private right of action for a violation of a certain prohibition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB766 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a Class C-PCL (premium cigar lounge) alcoholic beverages license for use in conjunction with a certain tobacco products retailer license; authorizing a local licensing board to issue the license; prohibiting a county clerk from issuing a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | HB1411 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an owner or operator of a large-scale data center to submit a disclosure report to certain State and local agencies and elected officials under certain circumstances; specifying the contents of the disclosure report; requiring the Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
