Public Health - Report on Establishing a Directory of Home Health Care Providers [HB-1478]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Senior Citizens ]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in consultation with certain stakeholders, to submit a report on the feasibility of establishing and maintaining an online directory of home health care providers to certain committees of the General Assembly by December 31, 2025.
HB-1478: Public Health - Report on Establishing a Directory of Home Health Care Providers
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 748 on 05/20/2025
Primary and Secondary Students - Vision and Hearing Studies and Evaluations [HB-1242]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to convene a workgroup to study and make recommendations on vision support treatments and services for students; requiring the workgroup to report its findings and recommendations on or before December 31, 2026; and requiring the Maryland State School Health Council to evaluate certain issues regarding vision and hearing difficulties in primary and secondary students.
HB-1242: Primary and Secondary Students - Vision and Hearing Studies and Evaluations
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Hill
Hearing Canceled on 03/05/2025
Health Occupations - Practice of Audiology - Definition [HB-1298]
[Healthcare ]
Altering the definition of "practice audiology", including by clarifying that the ordering and performing of certain scanning and imaging are included as these procedures related to auditory or vestibular conditions in the human ear.
HB-1298: Health Occupations - Practice of Audiology - Definition
Sponsored by: Rep. Ashanti Martinez
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 04/02/2025
Health Occupations – Practice of Audiology – Definition [SB-919]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Altering the definition of "practice audiology", including by clarifying that the ordering and performing of certain scanning and imaging are included as these procedures relate to auditory or vestibular conditions in the human ear.
SB-919: Health Occupations – Practice of Audiology – Definition
Sponsored by: Sen. Dawn Gile
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/17/2025
School Health and Wellness Personnel Assessment and Maryland Council on Advancement of School-Based Health Centers [HB-672]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health jointly to conduct an assessment of school health and wellness personnel each year; altering the membership of the Maryland Council on Advancement of School-Based Health Centers; and requiring the Department and the State Department of Education to annually report to the General Assembly on the findings of the assessment beginning December 1, 2027, and publish the report on the website of each agency.
HB-672: School Health and Wellness Personnel Assessment and Maryland Council on Advancement of School-Based Health Centers
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 345 on 05/06/2025
Maryland Medical Assistance Program – Use of Reimbursement Funds by Schools [HB-689]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Requiring elementary schools, secondary schools, and county school systems to use certain funds received for services provided under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program or the Maryland Children's Health Insurance Program to provide additional positions for providers, paid internships for students seeking to become providers, stipends for providers that are designed to address problems in provider recruitment and retention, and stipends for providers working in low-performing schools that are designed to address retention.
HB-689: Maryland Medical Assistance Program – Use of Reimbursement Funds by Schools
Sponsored by: Rep. Vanessa Atterbeary
Hearing Canceled on 02/12/2025
Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Use of Reimbursement Funds by Schools [SB-506]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Requiring elementary schools, secondary schools, and county school systems to use certain funds received for services provided under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program or the Maryland Children's Health Insurance Program to provide additional positions for providers, paid internships for students seeking to become providers, stipends designed to address problems in provider recruitment and retention, and stipends for providers working in low-performing schools designed to encourage provider recruitment and retention.
SB-506: Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Use of Reimbursement Funds by Schools
Sponsored by: Sen. Shaneka Henson
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. (education, Energy, And The Environment) on 02/05/2025
HB-406: State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists - Appointment of Hearing Aid Dispenser Members
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 739 on 05/20/2025
You have voted HB-406: State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists - Appointment of Hearing Aid Dispenser Members.
Health Occupations Boards - Membership Alteration and Sunset Extensions [HB-256]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Continuing certain health occupations boards and the Behavior Analyst Advisory Committee within the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to a certain date the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the boards and Committee; and altering the membership of the State Board of Massage Therapy Examiners.
HB-256: Health Occupations Boards - Membership Alteration and Sunset Extensions
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 31 on 04/08/2025
Health Occupations Boards - Membership Alteration and Sunset Extensions [SB-217]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Continuing certain health occupations boards and the Behavior Analyst Advisory Committee within the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to a certain date the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the boards and Committee; and altering the membership of the State Board of Massage Therapy Examiners.
SB-217: Health Occupations Boards - Membership Alteration and Sunset Extensions
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 32 on 04/08/2025
HB-1476: State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists - Appointment of Members
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Kerr
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 909 on 05/16/2024
You have voted HB-1476: State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists - Appointment of Members.
Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Use of Reimbursement Funds by Schools [HB-1317]
[Healthcare ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring elementary schools, secondary schools, and county school systems to use certain funds received for services provided under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program or the Maryland Children's Health Insurance Program to provide certain positions, internships, and stipends.
HB-1317: Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Use of Reimbursement Funds by Schools
Sponsored by: Rep. Vanessa Atterbeary
First Reading Ways And Means on 02/09/2024
Health Occupations - Practice Audiology - Definition [SB-795]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Altering the definition of "practice audiology" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the licensure and regulation of audiologists to include certain procedures that do not require anesthesia and certain screenings, testing, and imaging.
SB-795: Health Occupations - Practice Audiology - Definition
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Lewis Young
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 1049 on 05/26/2024
You have voted SB-714: State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists - Appointment of Members.
Health Occupations – Practice Audiology – Definition [HB-464]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Altering the definition of "practice audiology" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the licensure and regulation of audiologists to include certain procedures that do not require anesthesia.
HB-464: Health Occupations – Practice Audiology – Definition
Sponsored by: Rep. Samuel Rosenberg
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 1048 on 05/26/2024
Medical Records - Destruction - Notice and Retrieval [HB-149]
[Healthcare ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Health ]
Extending the time period from 5 to 7 years during which a health care provider is prohibited from destroying medical records and laboratory and X-ray reports; requiring that the notice required to be provided regarding the destruction of medical records be made to the last known e-mail address of the patient or the parent or guardian of a minor; requiring a health care provider to make a medical record available for retrieval by a patient or a parent or guardian of a minor within a certain time period and at a certain location; etc.
HB-149: Medical Records - Destruction - Notice and Retrieval
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 779 on 05/16/2024
Public Health - Healthy Maryland Program - Establishment [HB-184]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Establishing the Healthy Maryland Program as a public corporation and a unit of State government to provide comprehensive universal single-payer health care services for residents of the State by January 1, 2026; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to Healthy Maryland, including provisions regarding eligibility, participation by and payments to health care providers, benefits, payroll premiums, funding, and collective negotiations with health care providers; etc.
HB-184: Public Health - Healthy Maryland Program - Establishment
Sponsored by: Rep. Gabriel Acevero
Hearing 3/12 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/09/2024
Alternative Education Options - Right to Learn and Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students Today Programs (Right to Learn Act of 2023) [HB-737]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
Requiring, on or before January 1 each year, and based on certain star ratings, each county board of education to notify the parents or guardians of students in a failing school that the school is failing and provide a list of options; establishing the Right to Learn Program to provide students in failing schools with certain scholarships; establishing the Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students Today Program to provide scholarships for students eligible for free and reduced-price lunches to attend a non-public school; etc.
HB-737: Alternative Education Options - Right to Learn and Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students Today Programs (Right to Learn Act of 2023)
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
First Reading Ways And Means on 02/08/2023
You have voted HB-737: Alternative Education Options - Right to Learn and Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students Today Programs (Right to Learn Act of 2023).
Maryland Audiology, Hearing Aid Dispensing, Speech-Language Pathology, and Music Therapy Act - Definitions and Application [SB-449]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Altering the definition of "hearing aid dispensing" to include certain actions taken for the purpose of ordering certain hearing instruments and specifying that certain hearing instruments include prescription hearing aids; altering the definition of "practice audiology" for purposes of certain provisions of law governing the licensure of audiologists to include prescribing, ordering, selling, dispensing, or fitting hearing aids to an individual for the correction or relief of a condition for which hearing aids are worn; etc.
SB-449: Maryland Audiology, Hearing Aid Dispensing, Speech-Language Pathology, and Music Therapy Act - Definitions and Application
Sponsored by: Sen. Ariana Kelly
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 61 on 04/11/2023
Public Schools - Standardized Behavioral Health Questionnaire for Students - Development and Implementation [SB-388]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring the Maryland Consortium on Coordinated Community Supports to develop, in consultation with certain stakeholders, guidelines for developing a standardized behavioral health questionnaire to identify students with behavioral health services needs; requiring each behavioral health services coordinator to develop and implement a standardized behavioral health questionnaire based on the guidelines developed by the Consortium; and requiring that the questionnaire be given to the parent or guardian of each student at certain times.
SB-388: Public Schools - Standardized Behavioral Health Questionnaire for Students - Development and Implementation
Sponsored by: Sen. Guy Guzzone
Hearing 3/01 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/02/2023