MD HB 1050 - Karen Simpson
Family Law - Protective Orders - Surrender of Firearms
02/17/2025 - Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
Altering and establishing provisions relating to the surrender of firearms by a respondent under the domestic violence statutes; creating the Task Force to Study the Use of Firearms in Domestic Violence Situations; and requiring the Task Force to submit a report on its recommendations on or before November 15, 2025.
MD HB 1066 - Teresa Woorman
Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access - Workgroups
05/20/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 763
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 laws, policies and practices needed to mitigate the harm related to criminalization of substance use and related to the discharge of patients from substance use treatment programs; and requiring the workgroup to submit a certain report annually.
MD HB 1070 - W. Gregory Wims
Maryland Department of Health - Access to Telephones - Study
02/10/2025 - Hearing 2/21 at 2:00 p.m.
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to study the feasibility of installing and maintaining a telephone system in assisted living facilities, psychiatric facilities, and nursing homes; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health to report its findings and recommendations to certain committees of the General Assembly by September 30, 2026.
MD HB 1083 - Teresa Woorman
Behavioral Health Advisory Council and the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access - Plan to Implement Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Requirements
05/20/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 687
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 provide recommendations to implement recommendations in a certain Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services State Health Official letter; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health to report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by January 1, 2026.
MD HB 1084 - Jennifer White Holland
Correctional Services – Medication–Assisted Treatment Funding
02/10/2025 - Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m. (Judiciary)
Requiring the Maryland Secretary of Health to provide funding to counties for medication-assisted treatment programs; requiring counties that receive funding to submit a certain report; authorizing the Governor to appropriate certain funds in the annual budget bill; altering the requirements for a certain report; authorizing funds in the Opioid Restitution Fund to be used for medication-assisted treatment programs; etc.
MD HB 11 - Teresa Woorman
Health Insurance - Access to Nonparticipating Providers - Referrals, Additional Assistance, and Coverage
05/20/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 660
Repealing the June 30, 2025, termination date for certain provisions of law related to referrals to and reimbursement of specialists and nonphysician specialists who are not part of a carrier's provider panel; prohibiting certain carriers from imposing utilization review requirements other than would be required if the covered benefit was provided by a provider on the carrier's provider panel under certain circumstances; etc.
MD HB 1100 - Teresa Woorman
Public Health - Health Equity Dashboard
05/20/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 663
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, and gender; and requiring the Department to update the data dashboard on a quarterly basis, as determined by data availability.
MD HB 1123 - Lorig Charkoudian
Correctional Services - Medical and Elder Parole
02/17/2025 - Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
Repealing provisions relating to gubernatorial approval of a decision of the Maryland Parole Commission to grant medical parole to an incarcerated individual serving a term of life imprisonment; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to submit to the Commission the names of certain individuals at a certain time; requiring the Commission to conduct a risk assessment for a certain individual at a certain time; etc.
MD HB 1146 - Teresa Woorman
Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System – Integration of 9–8–8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network and Outcome Evaluations
05/20/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 659
Requiring the Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System to have a State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, rather than a crisis communication center, in each jurisdiction; requiring each State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the System to coordinate with the national 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network to provide supportive counseling, suicide prevention, crisis intervention, referrals to additional resources, and direct dispatch to other services as needed; etc.
MD HB 1191 - William J. Wivell
Family Law - Child Custody - Determinations
02/17/2025 - Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a material change in circumstances since the issuance of the order that related to the needs of the child or the ability of the parents to meet those needs and that modifying the order is in the best interests of the child.
MD HB 1210 - Ryan Spiegel
Workers' Compensation - Evaluation of Permanent Impairments - Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical
03/18/2025 - Hearing 3/20 at 1:30 p.m.
Authorizing a licensed certified social worker-clinical to provide evaluation services for workers' compensation claims related to permanent impairments involving a behavioral or mental disorder; and requiring a licensed certified social worker-clinical to comply with certain requirements to perform the evaluation services.
MD HB 1289 - Kevin B. Hornberger
Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Discharge of Patients and Referral Services - Standards
03/03/2025 - Hearing 3/05 at 2:00 p.m.
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish by regulation standards relating to the discharge of patients from drug and alcohol treatment programs and certain referral services offered to patients by certain drug and alcohol treatment programs; and requiring the Department to submit a report on the status of the adoption and revision of regulations to implement the requirements of the Act and Chapter 580 of 2017, and a plan for the enforcement of the statutory and regulatory requirements under the Act and Chapter 580 of 2017.
MD HB 1292 - Teresa Woorman
Health Insurance - Provider Directory - Required Updates
03/15/2025 - Second Reading Passed with Amendments
Requiring a carrier to verify and, as necessary, update the carrier's provider directory at least once every 90 days and update the information that must be made available in the carrier's provider directory on the Internet within 2, rather than 15, working days after receiving updated information from a provider; renaming "network directory" to be "provider directory" to conform to a certain federal law; etc.
MD HB 1301 - Jennifer White Holland
Maryland Medical Assistance Program, Maryland Children’s Health Program, and Health Insurance – Transfers to Special Pediatric Hospitals – Prior Authorizations
05/20/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 612
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 authorization for a transfer to a special pediatric hospital.
MD HB 1306 - Jamila J. Woods
Public Health - Sickle Cell Disease - Specialized Clinics and Scholarship Program for Medical Residents
03/08/2025 - Hearing 3/10 at 11:30 a.m.
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish certain specialized clinics for the management and treatment of sickle cell disease and establish a scholarship program for medical residents who specialize in benign or classical hematology with a focus on sickle cell disease; and requiring the Governor for fiscal year 2027 to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $6,000,000 to support clinic operations, staffing, training, and social support services.
MD HB 1316 - Jared G. Solomon
Primary and Secondary Education - Youth-Centric Technology and Social Media Resource Guide
04/07/2025 - Returned Passed
Requiring the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop and publish a youth-centric technology and social media resource guide by the 2027-2028 school year; requiring the guide to be distributed, beginning with the 2027-2028 school year, to each public school and the parent teacher organization for each public school and posted on the websites of the Department and each county board; etc.
MD HB 1328 - Natalie Ziegler
End-of-Life Option Act (The Honorable Elijah E. Cummings and the Honorable Shane E. Pendergrass Act)
02/27/2025 - Hearing 3/03 at 2:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations) and Hearing 3/03 at 2:00 p.m. (Judiciary)
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 assessments, the disposal of drugs prescribed for aid in dying, health care facility policies, and the effect of aid in dying on insurance policies; authorizing a pharmacist to dispense medication for aid in dying only to certain individuals under certain circumstances; etc.
MD HB 1357 - Kathy Szeliga
Public Health - Reproductive Health Care Data - Report
02/26/2025 - Hearing 2/27 at 2:00 p.m.
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to collect and compile annual data on the costs of birth, postpartum care, pregnancy care, and abortion; requiring the Department to post on its website and submit to the General Assembly a reproductive health care data report each December 1, beginning in 2025; and requiring the report to include the aggregated cost data for certain categories of care, comparative data by region within the State, analysis of trends in the cost of care, and recommendations for improving cost efficiency.
MD HB 1358 - Jesse T. Pippy
Criminal Procedure - Home Detention - Time Served Credits
02/10/2025 - Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
Prohibiting the Division of Correction from applying credit for any portion of the time served in a certain home detention program toward any sentence of a certain incarcerated individual; requiring that a court consider pending cases of a defendant in determining appropriate conditions of pretrial release; and providing that certain provisions relating to the application of credit toward a certain sentence do not apply to a certain defendant.
MD HB 1399 - William J. Wivell
Health Occupations - Cross-Sex Hormone Therapy for Minors - Prohibition (Protect the Kids Act)
03/11/2025 - Hearing 3/11 at 2:45 p.m.
Prohibiting a licensed health care practitioner from prescribing, dispensing, or administering a cross-sex hormone or otherwise providing cross-sex hormone therapy for the treatment of certain mental health diagnoses to an individual who is a minor.
MD HB 1409 - Susan K. McComas
Health - Medical Care Facilities - Electronic Monitoring Devices
03/08/2025 - Hearing 3/10 at 11:30 a.m. (Health and Government Operations)
Providing for an exception to the prohibition against willfully intercepting wire or electronic communication for a resident in a medical care facility under certain circumstances; requiring a medical care facility to allow electronic monitoring of a resident if requested by the resident or the resident's legal representative; and providing for the admissibility of a recording made through electronic monitoring in a civil or criminal court of the State.
MD HB 1442 - Mark Edelson
Juveniles - Truancy Reduction Pilot Programs - Report
05/13/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 577
Requiring the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland to report annually by November 1 to the General Assembly on the Truancy Reduction Pilot Program; and requiring the report to include the number of Truancy Reduction Pilot Programs established in State, the number of participants in each pilot program; information on the outcomes of the participants in each program, and recommendations to improve the function of the current program.
MD HB 1478 - Teresa Woorman
Public Health - Report on Establishing a Directory of Home Health Care Providers
03/15/2025 - Second Reading Passed with Amendments
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish and maintain an online directory of each home health care provider; and requiring that the directory allow an individual to search the directory and identify a home health care provider based on specified criteria.
MD HB 1480 - Sheila S. Ruth
Child Advocacy Centers - Continuity of Care Standards for Health Care Professionals and Reports of Violations
03/19/2025 - Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m.
Requiring that the standards established by the Maryland Statewide Organization for Child Advocacy Centers require an individual providing medical or mental health services in a child advocacy center to be licensed or certified and provide services within the scope of the license or certification and require each child advocacy center to establish a certain continuity of care plan; requiring each child advocacy center to report certain violations to a certain health occupations board or the Department of Human Services; etc.
MD HB 1552 - W. Gregory Wims
Maryland Commission for Men's Health - Reestablishment
03/13/2025 - Hearing 3/13 at 3:00 p.m.
Reestablishing the Maryland Commission for Men's Health in the Maryland Department of Health to develop strategies and programs, including community outreach and public-private partnerships, to raise awareness of men's health issues, encourage the participation of men in healthy behaviors such as regular checkups, and reduce disparities in morbidity rates in certain populations; and requiring the Commission to report annually by September 30 to the Governor and the General Assembly.
MD HB 161 - Kristopher G. Fair
County Boards of Education - Curriculum Guides and Courses of Study - Discrepancies
04/05/2025 - Passed Enrolled
Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop a comprehensive health education framework; requiring each county board of education to create an age-appropriate curriculum that is consistent with the comprehensive health education framework; and requiring each county board to establish policies, guidelines, and procedures for a parent or guardian to opt out of the family life and human sexuality topics for a certain student, subject to a certain prohibition.
MD HB 185 - Joseph Vogel
Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program - Funding - Alterations
05/06/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 238
Altering the fiscal years to include fiscal year 2027 through fiscal year 2029, during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $3,700,000 to the Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program.
MD HB 190 - Sheila S. Ruth
Correctional Services - Geriatric and Medical Parole
02/17/2025 - Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
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, including providing for a meeting between the incarcerated individual and the Commission; requiring the Commission to develop procedures for assessing parole requests by older incarcerated individuals; and requiring the Commission to report yearly to the Justice Reinvestment Oversight Board on the outcomes of certain parole considerations.
MD HB 197 - Cheryl E. Pasteur
Public Schools - Restorative Practices Schools - Comprehensive Plan
01/15/2025 - Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop a comprehensive plan by July 1, 2026, for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools which integrate restorative practices into daily practices and activities of the whole school; requiring a county board of education to use the comprehensive plan if the county board chooses to establish a Restorative Practices School; and requiring the Department to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2026, on the comprehensive plan for Restorative Practices Schools.
MD HB 205 - Jared G. Solomon
Employment Standards – Firefighters – Payment of Wages and Payroll Information
03/17/2025 - Referred Finance
Requiring governmental units that employ firefighters to compute overtime pay for each hour over 168 hours that a firefighter works during a 28-day work period; requiring an employer to include all regularly scheduled hours, regardless of whether earned or accrued leave was used; requiring counties and municipalities to provide certain payroll information to each employed firefighter; and authorizing a firefighter or their exclusive representative to initiate a certain grievance under certain circumstances.
MD HB 223 - Charlotte Crutchfield
Family Law - Child Abuse and Neglect Investigations ("Know Before They Knock" Family Right to Notice Act)
01/10/2025 - Hearing 1/23 at 1:00 p.m.
Requiring a local department of social services or a law enforcement agency to provide oral and written notice of certain rights to a parent or caretaker of a child at the time of initial contact during an investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect; and excluding evidence obtained in violation of the Act from being used in certain judicial or administrative proceedings.
MD HB 311 - Kym Taylor
Correctional Services - Medical Parole - Life Imprisonment
02/17/2025 - Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
Repealing provisions relating to gubernatorial approval of a decision of the Maryland Parole Commission to grant medical parole to an incarcerated individual serving a sentence of life imprisonment.
MD HB 32 - Teresa Woorman
Maryland Department of Health - Forensic Review Board - Established
03/13/2025 - Third Reading Passed (139-0)
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish a forensic review board at facilities that have charge of persons who have been committed to the facility as not criminally responsible; requiring each forensic review board to review the eligibility for release of committed persons on a certain basis; establishing the Community Forensic Aftercare Program in the Department to monitor committed persons on conditional release in accordance with the recommendations of the committed person's mental health team; etc.
MD HB 337 - Jennifer R. Terrasa
State Lottery Fund - Laurel Race Course - Local Impact Aid
04/05/2025 - Second Reading Passed
Requiring the Comptroller, beginning in fiscal year 2026, to distribute from the State Lottery Fund $250,000 of supplemental local impact aid to Anne Arundel County, Howard County, and the City of Laurel from the proceeds of the Racetrax lottery game to be used for certain programs and services in the communities surrounding Laurel Race Course; specifying the purposes for and manner in which the supplemental local impact aid may be utilized; etc.
MD HB 350 -
Budget Bill (Fiscal Year 2026)
01/15/2025 - First Reading Appropriations
Making the proposed appropriations contained in the State Budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, in accordance with Article III, Section 52 of the Maryland Constitution; etc.
MD HB 351 -
Creation of a State Debt - Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 2025, and the Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loans of 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024
04/05/2025 - Motion Special Order until 4/7 (Senator Zucker) Adopted
Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $1,763,325,000, the proceeds to be used for certain necessary building, construction, demolition, planning, renovation, conversion, replacement, and capital equipment purchases of the State, for acquiring certain real estate in connection therewith, and for grants to certain subdivisions and other organizations for certain development and improvement purposes; etc.
MD HB 352 -
Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2025
05/20/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 604
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 distribution of certain revenue; altering the rates and rate brackets under the State income tax on certain income of individuals; increasing the cap on the percentage that may be deducted from all open purses and paid to a certain organization; etc.
MD HB 36 - House Health & Government Operations Committee
Department of Aging – Aging Services – Program Repeal and Consolidation
01/10/2025 - Hearing 1/23 at 2:00 p.m.
Repealing provisions of law requiring the Secretary of Aging to develop certain congregate housing and assisted living programs for seniors; repealing the Interagency Committee on Aging Services and transferring certain responsibilities of the Committee to the Department of Aging; authorizing the Department to enter into agreements and contracts, adopt regulations, and adopt policies and procedures to implement and coordinate services to older adults; etc.
MD HB 382 - Deni Taveras
Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Health Insurance - Step Therapy, Fail-First Protocols, and Prior Authorization - Prescription to Treat Serious Mental Illness
01/21/2025 - Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
Prohibiting the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations from applying a prior authorization requirement, step therapy protocol, or fail-first protocol for prescription drugs used to treat certain mental illnesses of certain insureds and enrollees.
MD HB 414 - Caylin Young
Health and Taxation - Digital Social Media Services and the Mental Health Care Fund for Children and Youth
01/16/2025 - Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
Establishing the Mental Health Care Fund for Children and Youth to support improved access to mental health care services to children and youth in the State; imposing a tax on certain annual revenues derived from certain digital social media services in the State; providing for the calculation and collection of the tax; requiring the Comptroller to distribute revenue from the tax in a certain manner; etc.
MD HB 457 - Sarah S. Wolek
Primary and Secondary Education - Educator Professional Development - Course on Student Well-Being and Flourishing
01/22/2025 - Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 p.m.
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop and offer a continuing professional development course on student well-being and flourishing to school personnel and administrators on or before July 1, 2026.
MD HB 466 - Teresa Woorman
Health Equality for Service Members Act
05/06/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 259
Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of law governing public health, the regulation of health occupations, and housing vouchers and assistance to apply to all uniformed services, rather than only the armed forces.
MD HB 468 - Nicole A. Williams
Petitions for Emergency Evaluation (Arnaud and Magruder Memorial Act)
03/13/2025 - Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance)
Specifying that a petition for emergency evaluation is effective for 5 days after being endorsed by a certain court; authorizing a court, on a certain motion and for good cause shown, to extend a petition for up to 5 days at a time, not to exceed a total of 30 days; requiring the court to include the date the petition expires on the petition; and authorizing peace officers to use reasonable and necessary force when executing a petition.
MD HB 474 - Teresa Woorman
Public Health - Maryland Commission on Health Equity - Advisory Committee and Hospital Reporting
01/24/2025 - Hearing canceled
Requiring the Maryland Commission on Health Equity, in coordination with the Maryland Department of Health, to establish a health equity measures advisory committee to determine the 10 widest disparities in health care quality, access, or outcomes for vulnerable populations; and requiring the health equity advisory committee to review the health equity reports submitted annually to the Department by licensed State hospitals.
MD HB 504 -
Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act
04/05/2025 - Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Guzzone, King, Watson and Salling)
Altering the source of funds for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund to include the interest earnings of the Academic Excellence Fund; authorizing the Department to establish a national teacher recruitment campaign; establishing the Academic Excellence Program in the Department to address critical academic needs in public schools; requiring the Department to consult with a certain entity to evaluate the Concentration of Poverty School Grant Program and establish requirements for community school implementation plans; etc.
MD HB 592 - Jamila J. Woods
Prohibited Possession of Firearms - Assisted Outpatient Treatment Respondents
03/12/2025 - Referred Judicial Proceedings
Prohibiting a person from possessing a regulated firearm, rifle, or shotgun if the person is currently a respondent subject to a court order to comply with certain assisted outpatient treatment; and requiring a court to promptly report certain information through a certain data portal if the court orders a person to comply with certain assisted outpatient treatment.
MD HB 612 - Chao Wu
Public Schools - Lifesaver Schools Program - Establishment
01/29/2025 - Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
Establishing the Lifesaver Schools Program to recognize public schools that provide health and safety training to students and school personnel; establishing requirements and prohibitions for Lifesaver Schools; authorizing a public school to partner with the county board of education to meet the criteria to qualify as a Lifesaver School; and requiring a Lifesaver School to reapply to the Department for approval to maintain the Lifesaver School designation.
MD HB 643 - Jennifer R. Terrasa
Higher Education - Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program - Eligibility
05/06/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 388
Expanding the eligibility for the Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program to include individuals who received a certain degree from an accredited veterinary school and provided veterinary services in the State for not less than 5 years or provided volunteer veterinary services at certain animal shelters for 3 years and to include individuals who provided veterinary technician services for not less than 5 years or provided volunteer veterinary technician services at certain animal shelters over a 3-year period.
MD HB 647 - Jamila J. Woods
Correctional Services - Restrictive Housing
02/10/2025 - Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
Altering a certain definition of restrictive housing; limiting the amount of time that an individual may be placed in restrictive housing from approximately 22 hours to 17 hours in a 24-hour period; requiring all restrictive housing units to create the least restrictive environment necessary for certain purposes; prohibiting the placement of a certain member of a vulnerable population in restrictive housing for any period of time; etc.
MD HB 658 - Eric D. Ebersole
Juvenile Services Education Board - Alterations
03/15/2025 - Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m. (Judicial Proceedings)
Authorizing the Secretary of Higher Education and the State Superintendent of Schools to select a designee to serve on the Juvenile Services Education Board; altering the terms of membership for the Board; and altering certain requirements for meetings of the Board.
MD HB 690 - Jeffrie E. Long
Overdose Awareness Day
03/13/2025 - Hearing 3/13 at 3:00 p.m.
Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim August 31 as Overdose Awareness Day.
MD HB 703 - Jennifer R. Terrasa
Criminal Procedure - Diagnosis of Developmental Disability or Intellectual Disability - Evidence
01/27/2025 - Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
Providing that certain evidence of certain diagnoses is admissible in a criminal proceeding if the evidence tends to show that the defendant, at the time of the alleged offense, did or did not have the mental state required for the offense charged and is otherwise admissible; and requiring a judge or a District Court commissioner to consider any diagnosis for the defendant of a certain developmental disability or intellectual disability when making a pretrial release determination.
MD HB 713 - Kym Taylor
Public Safety - Distribution of Literature to Purchasers of Firearms and Ammunition
02/17/2025 - Hearing 2/19 at 11:00 a.m.
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to prepare certain literature relating to firearms and ammunition and to distribute the literature to all county health departments in the State; requiring each county health department to distribute certain literature to all establishments that sell firearms or ammunition within the county; requiring establishments that sell firearms or ammunition in the State to make certain literature visible and available and to distribute the literature to purchasers of firearms and ammunition; etc.
MD HB 718 - Teresa Woorman
Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission - Established
04/05/2025 - Passed Enrolled
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 the access of residents of the State to affordable health coverage; and requiring the Commission to submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including any legislative proposals, to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 31 each year.
MD HB 727 - William Valentine
Motor Vehicles - Driving Records - Disclosure of Medical Diagnosis (Safeguarding American Families Everywhere Act)
02/17/2025 - Withdrawn by Sponsor
Authorizing an applicant for a driver's license or a license holder to voluntarily disclose to the Motor Vehicle Administration certain information regarding certain medical diagnoses; requiring the Administration to include a description of the voluntary disclosure in the applicant's or license holder's driving record; and providing that the voluntary disclosure may be removed from an individual's driver's record on request.
MD HB 734 - William J. Wivell
Real Time for Violent Crime Act
02/17/2025 - Hearing 2/18 at 11:00 a.m.
Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; prohibiting a deduction of diminution credits of more than 10% of an incarcerated individual's aggregate sentence for crimes of violence for an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for a crime of violence; etc.
MD HB 735 - Teresa Woorman
Certificate of Need - Psychiatric Health Care Facilities and Psychiatric and Mental Health Services - Exemption
02/04/2025 - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
Altering the definition of "medical service" for the purpose of providing an exemption to the certificate of need requirement by removing psychiatry and any subcategory of psychiatry; and providing that a certificate of need is not required to establish or operate a psychiatric health care facility or to offer psychiatric or other mental health services at a health care facility.
MD HB 76 - Jennifer R. Terrasa
Public Safety Officer - Performance of Duties - Death and Disability Benefits
02/08/2025 - Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
Altering circumstances under which certain individuals are presumed to have died as a direct and proximate result of an injury sustained in the performance of duties for purposes of eligibility for death benefits; altering the circumstances under which certain individuals are eligible for certain disability benefits; and authorizing certain 9-1-1 specialists to become members of the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System as employees of a participating governmental unit.
MD HB 779 - House Judiciary Committee
Correctional Services - Medication Review Committee - Administration of Psychotropic Medication to an Incarcerated Individual
02/17/2025 - Hearing 2/18 at 11:00 a.m.
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 individual under certain circumstances; providing that psychotropic medication may not be administered to an incarcerated individual who refuses the medication except under certain circumstances; etc.
MD HB 838 - Teresa Woorman
Health Occupations - Licensed Direct-Entry Midwives - Revisions
05/20/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 645
Altering the scope of practice of licensed direct-entry midwives; providing that the practice of direct-entry midwifery is independent and not does not require oversight by another health care practitioner; repealing the requirement that licensed direct-entry midwives report certain information to the Direct-Entry Midwifery Advisory Committee; altering the disciplinary actions that may be taken against a licensed direct-entry midwife or an applicant for a license; etc.
MD HB 869 - Teresa Woorman
Preserve Telehealth Access Act of 2025
05/13/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 482
Repealing the limitation on the period during which the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide reimbursement for certain health care services provided through telehealth on a certain basis and at a certain rate; altering the circumstances under which health care practitioners are authorized to prescribe certain controlled dangerous substances for the treatment of pain through telehealth; etc.
MD HB 878 - Jennifer R. Terrasa
Department of the Environment - Water Resources - Protection of Vernal Pools (Vernal Pool Wetlands Protection Act of 2025)
01/31/2025 - Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
Requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations to protect and preserve vernal pools.
MD HB 940 - Teresa Woorman
Criminal Procedure - Probation Before Judgment - Defendants Diagnosed With Autism or Intellectual Disabilities
02/17/2025 - Hearing 2/18 at 11:00 a.m.
Requiring a court to stay the entering of judgment, defer further proceedings, and place a defendant diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder or an intellectual disability on probation before judgment under certain circumstances.
MD HB 962 - Teresa Woorman
Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays
05/13/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 479
Specifying that the scope of the Maryland Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Registry and Referral System includes private and State inpatient and outpatient mental health and substance use services; requiring the Maryland Department of Health and the Department of Human Services, under certain circumstances, to ensure pediatric hospital overstay patients are placed in the least restrictive setting when clinically indicated and when possible; etc.
MD HB 971 - Andrew C. Pruski
Anne Arundel County Crownsville Hospital Memorial Park Advisory Committee
05/20/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 657
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 health and well-being, is equitable in providing access to the property, is truthful about the history of Crownsville Hospital, and preserves the natural beauty of the site; and requiring the Committee to report its achievements and recommendations to certain entities by February 1 each year.
MD SB 111 - Clarence K. Lam
Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Health Insurance - Step Therapy, Fail-First Protocols, and Prior Authorization - Prescription to Treat Serious Mental Illness
01/14/2025 - Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
Prohibiting the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations from applying a prior authorization requirement, step therapy protocol, or fail-first protocol for prescription drugs used to treat certain mental illnesses of certain insureds and enrollees.
MD SB 124 - Benjamin F. Kramer
Employment Standards - Firefighters - Payment of Wages and Payroll Information
01/09/2025 - Hearing 1/16 at 3:00 p.m.
Requiring governmental units that employ firefighters to compute overtime pay for each hour over 168 hours that a firefighter works during a 28-day work period; requiring an employer to include all regularly scheduled hours, regardless of whether earned or accrued leave was use; requiring counties and municipalities to provide certain payroll information to each employed firefighter; and authorizing a firefighter or their exclusive representative to initiate a certain grievance under certain circumstances.
MD SB 129 - Arthur Ellis
Public Health - Maryland Commission on Health Equity - Advisory Committee and Hospital Reporting
01/14/2025 - Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
Requiring the Maryland Commission on Health Equity, in coordination with the Maryland Department of Health, to establish a health equity measures advisory committee to determine the 10 widest disparities in health care quality, access, or outcomes for vulnerable populations; and requiring the health equity advisory committee to review the health equity reports submitted annually to the Department by licensed hospitals in the State.
MD SB 140 - Michael A. Jackson
Overdose Awareness Day
02/05/2025 - Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim August 31 as Overdose Awareness Day.
MD SB 163 - Mary Lynn Washington
Health – General Article – References to Mental Health
05/20/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 760
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 adopt regulations to ensure consistency with the Act; and requiring the Department to update all public-facing electronic materials to be consistent with the Act as soon as practicable.
MD SB 168 - Bryan W. Simonaire
Confined Aquatic Disposal Cells - Construction - Moratorium
04/07/2025 - Returned Passed
Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from processing or making any recommendation on a certain application submitted for the purpose of constructing a confined aquatic disposal cell from June 1, 2025, through May 31, 2029; and prohibiting the Board of Public Works from approving a certain application submitted for the purpose of constructing a confined aquatic disposal cell from June 1, 2025, through May 31, 2029.
MD SB 174 - Joanne Claybon Benson
Interstate Social Work Licensure Compact
03/15/2025 - Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
Entering into the Social Work Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing regulated social workers who hold multistate licenses to practice social work in member states; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; establishing the Social Work Licensure Compact Commission; providing for withdrawal from the Compact; and providing the Act is contingent on the enactment of substantially similar legislation in six other states.
MD SB 181 - Christopher R. West
Correctional Services - Geriatric and Medical Parole
04/05/2025 - Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Smith, Sydnor and West)
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, including providing for a meeting between the incarcerated individual and the Commission; requiring the Commission to develop procedures for assessing parole requests by older incarcerated individuals; requiring the Commission to report yearly to the Justice Reinvestment Oversight Board on the outcomes of certain parole considerations; etc.
MD SB 182 - Bryan W. Simonaire
Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program - Eligibility - Family Members of Veterans
05/06/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 268
Expanding eligibility for the Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program to include a spouse or dependent of an eligible veteran.
MD SB 212 - Senate Committee on Finance
Department of Aging - Aging Services - Program Repeal and Consolidation
03/15/2025 - Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
Repealing provisions of law requiring the Secretary of Aging to develop certain congregate housing and assisted living programs for seniors; repealing the Interagency Committee on Aging Services and transferring certain responsibilities of the Committee to the Department of Aging; requiring the Department to engage with key stakeholders to conduct program transition planning, to co-design the new consolidated program required by the Act, and to provide certain services to certain older adults; etc.
MD SB 233 - Senate Committee on Finance
Prescription Drug Monitoring Program - Dispensers - Veterinarians
01/27/2025 - Withdrawn by Sponsor
Altering the definition of "dispenser" for purposes of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to include certain licensed veterinarians when dispensing controlled substances in the usual course of providing professional services; and providing that the Program is not required to disclose prescription drug monitoring data to veterinarians.
MD SB 277 - Jack Bailey
Health Equality for Service Members Act
05/06/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 260
Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of law governing public health, the regulation of health occupations, and housing vouchers and assistance to apply to all uniformed services, rather than only the armed forces.
MD SB 282 - Jack Bailey
Recreational Equality for Service Members Act
01/10/2025 - First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment
MD SB 310 - Bryan W. Simonaire
Education - Youth Suicide Prevention School Program - Revisions
05/06/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 246
Altering the requirements of the Youth Suicide Prevention School Program to increase pupil awareness of the relationship between gambling and youth suicide.
MD SB 318 - Katie Fry Hester
Higher Education - Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program - Eligibility
05/06/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 387
Expanding the eligibility for the Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program to include individuals who received a certain degree from an accredited veterinary school and provided veterinary services in the State for not less than 5 years, or provided volunteer veterinary services at certain animal shelters and to include individuals who provided veterinary technician services for a certain time period or provided volunteer veterinary technician services at certain animal shelters.
MD SB 319 -
Budget Bill (Fiscal Year 2026)
01/15/2025 - First Reading Budget and Taxation
Making the proposed appropriations contained in the State Budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, in accordance with Article III, Section 52 of the Maryland Constitution; etc.
MD SB 321 -
Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2025
02/14/2025 - Hearing 2/28 at 12:00 p.m.
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 distribution of certain revenue; altering the rates and rate brackets under the State income tax on certain income of individuals; requiring certain groups of corporations to file a combined income tax return reflecting the aggregate income tax liability of all members of the group; etc.
MD SB 328 - Malcolm Augustine
Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Health Insurance - Annual Behavioral Health Wellness Visits - Coverage and Reimbursement
01/15/2025 - First Reading Finance
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations, beginning on July 1, 2026, to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for annual behavioral health wellness visits; and applying the Act to all policies, contracts, and health benefit plans issued, delivered, or renewed in the State on or after January 1, 2026.
MD SB 350 - Clarence K. Lam
Primary and Secondary Education - Educator Professional Development - Course on Student Well-Being and Flourishing
02/10/2025 - Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop and offer a continuing professional development course on student well-being and flourishing to school personnel and administrators on or before July 1, 2026.
MD SB 359 - Nancy J. King
Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program - Funding - Alterations
05/06/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 239
Altering the fiscal years from 2023 through 2025, and for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2029, during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $3,700,000 to the Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program.
MD SB 367 - Arthur Ellis
Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Supportive Housing and Health Services
01/22/2025 - Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, beginning July 1, 2026, to provide supportive housing and health services to certain Program recipients; establishing requirements for professionals seeking certification as a certified supportive housing and health services professional and entities that employ or contract with supportive housing and health services professionals; requiring, by January 1, 2026, the Department to approve at least one accredited training and certification program; etc.
MD SB 372 - Alonzo T. Washington
Preserve Telehealth Access Act of 2025
05/13/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 481
Repealing the limitation on the period during which the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide reimbursement for certain health care services provided through telehealth on a certain basis and at a certain rate; altering the circumstances under which health care practitioners are authorized to prescribe certain controlled dangerous substances for the treatment of pain through telehealth; etc.
MD SB 396 - Michael A. Jackson
Public Safety Officer - Performance of Duties - Death Benefits
05/13/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 573
Altering circumstances under which certain individuals are presumed to have died as a direct and proximate result of an injury sustained in the performance of duties for purposes of eligibility for death benefits.
MD SB 400 - Dawn Gile
Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025)
03/15/2025 - Referred Judiciary
Prohibiting transportation companies that transport children to residential child care programs from using certain restraints unless there is an immediate and serious risk of dangerous or disruptive behavior; prohibiting transportation companies that transport children to residential child care programs from picking up children between the hours of 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.; and authorizing an individual and the Attorney General to bring a civil action against certain transportation companies under certain circumstances.
MD SB 411 - Jeffrey D. Waldstreicher
Health Insurance - Postpartum Depression Screening - Required Coverage and Authorized Cost Sharing
01/27/2025 - Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for postpartum depression screening; authorizing the insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to subject a copayment, coinsurance, or deductible requirement on coverage for postpartum depression screening; and applying the Act to all policies, contracts, and health benefit plans issued, delivered, or renewed in the State on or after January 1, 2026.
MD SB 43 - Malcolm Augustine
Maryland Department of Health - Forensic Review Board - Established
03/28/2025 - Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish a forensic review board at facilities that have charge of persons who have been committed to the facility as not criminally responsible; authorizing a forensic board to make recommendations relating to the release or rehabilitation of a committed person; requiring the Board to give notice at least 10 days before a meeting concerning the committed person; requiring the Board to give consideration to a written statement offered by the committed person to the Board; etc.
MD SB 444 - William C. Smith Jr.
Public Safety - Gun Buyback Programs - Destruction of Firearms
04/07/2025 - Motion Special Order until Next Session (Delegate Clippinger) Adopted
Requiring a federal firearms licensee or law enforcement agency operating a gun buyback program to destroy each firearm and all its components and parts, that is traded in as part of a gun buyback program; authorizing a certain person or entity to contract with a law enforcement agency or a business to destroy certain firearms; requiring a law enforcement agency operating a gun buyback program to make certain efforts to determine whether a firearm is a crime firearm or has been reported lost or stolen before destroying the weapon; etc.
MD SB 448 - Clarence K. Lam
Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Self-Directed Mental Health Services - Pilot Program
01/27/2025 - Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
Establishing the Self-Directed Mental Health Services Pilot Program in the Maryland Department of Health to facilitate access to clinically appropriate, person-centered, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed self-directed services in the most integrated setting appropriate for certain recipients of services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program; requiring the Governor in fiscal years 2027 through 2029 to include $300,000 in the annual budget bill for the Pilot Program; and requiring a certain report.
MD SB 507 -
Criminal Procedure - Diagnosis of Developmental Disability or Intellectual Disability - Evidence
02/06/2025 - Hearing 2/07 at 10:00 a.m.
Providing that certain evidence of certain diagnoses is admissible in a criminal proceeding if the evidence tends to show that the defendant, at the time of the alleged offense, did or did not have the mental state required for the offense charged and is otherwise admissible; and requiring a judge or a District Court commissioner to consider any diagnosis for the defendant of a certain developmental disability or intellectual disability when making a pretrial release determination.
MD SB 509 -
Prohibited Possession of Firearms - Assisted Outpatient Treatment Respondents
02/06/2025 - Hearing 2/07 at 10:00 a.m.
Prohibiting a person from possessing a regulated firearm, rifle, or shotgun if the person is currently a respondent subject to a court order to comply with certain assisted outpatient treatment; and requiring a court to promptly report certain information through a certain data portal if the court orders a person to comply with certain assisted outpatient treatment.
MD SB 548 - Mary-Dulany James
Family Law - Child Custody - Determinations
02/17/2025 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a material change in circumstances since the issuance of the order that related to the needs of the child or the ability of the parents to meet those needs and that modifying the order is in the best interests of the child.
MD SB 57 - Bryan W. Simonaire
Funeral Establishments, Crematories, and Reduction Facilities - Disposition of Unclaimed Remains - Veterans
05/06/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 362
Requiring a licensed funeral establishment, crematory operator, or reduction facility to take certain actions if a certain veterans service organization does not take possession of certain unclaimed cremains, hydrolyzed remains, or soil remains that qualify for a plot in a veterans cemetery within a certain period of time.
MD SB 648 - Christopher R. West
Correctional Services - Medical Parole - Life Imprisonment
03/15/2025 - Referred Judiciary
Repealing provisions relating to gubernatorial approval of a decision of the Maryland Parole Commission to grant medical parole to an incarcerated individual serving a sentence of life imprisonment.
MD SB 68 - Benjamin T. Brooks
Public Schools - Restorative Practices Schools - Comprehensive Plan
01/15/2025 - Hearing 1/29 at 1:30 p.m.
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop a comprehensive plan by July 1, 2026, for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools which integrate restorative practices into daily practices and activities of the whole school; requiring a county board of education to use the comprehensive plan if the county board chooses to establish a Restorative Practices School; and requiring the Department to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2026 on the comprehensive plan for Restorative Practices Schools.
MD SB 684 - Malcolm Augustine
Public Health - Health Equity Dashboard
05/20/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 662
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, and gender; and requiring the Department to update the data dashboard on a quarterly basis, as determined by data availability.
MD SB 69 - Johnny Ray Salling
Maryland Department of Health - Access to Telephones - Study
01/14/2025 - Hearing 1/21 at 3:00 p.m.
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to study the feasibility of installing and maintaining a telephone system in assisted living facilities, psychiatric facilities, and nursing homes; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health to report its findings and recommendations to certain committees of the General Assembly by September 30, 2026.
MD SB 696 - Pamela G. Beidle
Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays
05/13/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 480
Specifying that the scope of the Maryland Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Registry and Referral System includes both private and State inpatient and outpatient mental health and substance use services; requiring the Maryland Department of Health and the Department of Human Services to ensure pediatric hospital overstay patients are placed in the least restrictive setting when clinically indicated and when possible; establishing the Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays in the State; etc.
MD SB 702 - C. Anthony Muse
Correctional Services - Restrictive Housing
01/30/2025 - First Reading Judicial Proceedings
Altering a certain definition of restrictive housing; limiting the amount of time that an individual may be placed in restrictive housing from approximately 22 hours to 17 hours in a 24-hour period; requiring all restrictive housing units to create the least restrictive environment necessary for certain purposes; prohibiting the placement of a certain member of a vulnerable population in restrictive housing for any period of time; etc.
MD SB 735 - Mary Beth Carozza
Real Time for Violent Crime Act (Geri's Law)
02/04/2025 - Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; prohibiting a deduction of diminution credits of more than 10% of an incarcerated individual's aggregate sentence for crimes of violence for an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for a crime of violence; etc.
MD SB 741 - Malcolm Augustine
Forensic Mental Health Treatment
02/06/2025 - Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance)
Altering the circumstances under which a certificate of need for changing bed capacity in a health care facility is required; establishing the Workgroup on Forensic Mental Health Treatment; requiring the Workgroup to develop a certain form to be used by judges in a proceeding related to incompetency to stand trial; establishing the Forensic Mental Health Treatment Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; requiring courts to remit certain fines and monetary penalties into the Fund; etc.
MD SB 782 - Paul D. Corderman
Criminal Procedure - Verdict of Not Criminally Responsible - Eligibility for Evaluation for Discharge
02/04/2025 - Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
Establishing that a person committed to the Maryland Department of Health after a verdict of not criminally responsible for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree is not eligible for discharge for at least 10 years after the date the person was committed.
MD SB 784 -
Annual Corrective Bill
04/22/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 142
Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that the Act is not intended to affect any law other than to correct technical errors; and providing for the correction of certain errors and obsolete provisions by the publishers of the Annotated Code.
MD SB 790 - Malcolm Augustine
Behavioral Health Advisory Council and the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access - Plan to Implement Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Requirements
05/20/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 686
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 health needs, to provide recommendations to implement Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment requirements; requiring the workgroup to create a plan to implement the recommendations in a certain Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services State Health Official letter; etc.
MD SB 828 - William C. Smith Jr.
Immigration Enforcement - Sensitive Locations - Access, Guidance, and Policies (Protecting Sensitive Locations Act)
04/05/2025 - Third Reading Passed with Amendments (98-39)
Prohibiting certain schools, libraries, and units of State government that operate at certain sensitive locations from allowing certain federal personnel to access certain areas, subject to certain exceptions; requiring the Attorney General to develop guidance regarding immigration enforcement at certain sensitive locations and guidance regarding individuals interacting with certain federal personnel; and requiring certain schools, libraries and units of State government to adopt policies consistent with the guidelines.
MD SB 854 - Karen Lewis Young
Health Occupations - Licensed Direct-Entry Midwives - Revisions
05/20/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 644
Altering the scope of practice of licensed direct-entry midwives; providing that the practice of direct-entry midwifery is independent and not does not require oversight by another health care practitioner; repealing the requirement that licensed direct-entry midwives report certain information to the Direct-Entry Midwifery Advisory Committee; altering the disciplinary actions that may be taken against a licensed direct-entry midwife or an applicant for a license; etc.
MD SB 897 - Sara N. Love
Primary and Secondary Education - Student Technology and Social Media Resource Guide
04/07/2025 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment
Requiring the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop and distribute a student technology and social media resource guide beginning in the 2027-2028 school year with additional information included in successive years; requiring the Governor to include an appropriation of $100,000 for fiscal year 2027 and $125,000 for fiscal years 2028 and 2029 in the annual budget bill; etc.
MD SB 900 - Malcolm Augustine
Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System - Integration of 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network and Outcome Evaluations
05/20/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 658
Requiring the Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System to have a State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, rather than a crisis communication center, in each jurisdiction; requiring each State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the System to coordinate with the national 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network to provide supportive counseling, suicide prevention, crisis intervention, referrals to additional resources, and direct dispatch to other services as needed; etc.
MD SB 902 - Malcolm Augustine
Health Insurance - Access to Nonparticipating Providers - Referrals, Additional Assistance, and Coverage
05/20/2025 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 661
Repealing the June 30, 2025, termination date for certain provisions of law related to referrals to and reimbursement of specialists and nonphysician specialists who are not part of a carrier's provider panel; prohibiting certain carriers from imposing utilization review requirements other than would be required if the covered benefit was provided by a provider on the carrier's provider panel under certain circumstances; etc.
MD SB 926 - William C. Smith Jr.
End-of-Life Option Act (The Honorable Elijah E. Cummings and the Honorable Shane E. Pendergrass Act)
03/06/2025 - Hearing canceled
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 assessments, the disposal of drugs prescribed for aid in dying, health care facility policies, and the effect of aid in dying on insurance policies; authorizing a pharmacist to dispense medication for aid in dying only to certain individuals under certain circumstances; etc.
MD SB 961 - John F. Mautz
Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Health Insurance - Pharmacogenomic Testing - Required Coverage
02/06/2025 - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health services plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for single-gene and multigene pharmacogenomic testing in certain circumstances; and limiting the prior authorization requirements that certain health insurers, nonprofit health services plans, and health maintenance organizations may implement for pharmacogenomic testing.
MD SB 965 - Christopher R. West
Public Health - Women's Health Care Data - Report
02/06/2025 - Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to collect and compile annual data on the costs of birth, postpartum care, pregnancy care, and abortion; requiring the Department to post on its website and submit to the General Assembly a reproductive health care data report each December 1, beginning in 2025; and requiring the report to include the aggregated cost data for certain categories of care, comparative data by region within the State, analysis of trends in the cost of care, and recommendations for improving cost efficiency.