Health Insurance - Artificial Intelligence, Adverse Decisions, and Grievances - Reporting Requirements [HB-697]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring a health insurance carrier to submit quarterly reports to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner on certain information related to the carrier's use of artificial intelligence or automated decision-making systems; and altering the information related to adverse decisions and grievances carriers are required to report to the Commissioner.
HB-697: Health Insurance - Artificial Intelligence, Adverse Decisions, and Grievances - Reporting Requirements
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/17/2025
Public Information Act - Frivolous, Vexatious, or Abusive Requests - Remedies [SB-554]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Data Privacy ]
Authorizing the custodian of a record to file a certain complaint relating to a Public Information Act request or pattern of requests with the Public Information Act Compliance Board or circuit court; authorizing the Compliance Board to issue a certain order or dismiss a complaint under certain circumstances; authorizing a complainant to appeal a certain decision of the Compliance Board; and authorizing the circuit court to issue a certain order under certain circumstances.
SB-554: Public Information Act - Frivolous, Vexatious, or Abusive Requests - Remedies
Sponsored by: Sen.
Hearing 2/20 At 1:00 P.m. (education, Energy, And The Environment) on 01/30/2025
Health Insurance - Adverse Decisions - Notices, Reporting, and Examinations [SB-474]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring that certain adverse decision and grievance decision notices include certain information in a certain manner; requiring certain carriers, if the number of adverse decisions issued by the carrier for a type of service has grown by 10% or more in the immediately preceding calendar year or 25% or more in the immediately preceding 3 calendar years, to provide certain information to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner; authorizing the Commissioner to use certain adverse decision information as the basis of an examination; etc.
SB-474: Health Insurance - Adverse Decisions - Notices, Reporting, and Examinations
Sponsored by: Sen. Pamela Beidle
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 670 on 05/20/2025
Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act of 2025 [HB-554]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Unemployment ]
[Insurance ]
Repealing and establishing the methodology used to calculate the weekly benefit amount; altering the taxable wage base used to determine employer contributions to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund, the dependent allowance, and the amount of earned wages subtracted from a weekly benefit amount; requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to determine and make available online the State annual average wage applicable to the rate of contribution; etc.
HB-554: Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act of 2025
Sponsored by: Rep. Lorig Charkoudian
Hearing 2/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2025
Consumer Protection - Right to Repair - Powered Wheelchairs [SB-382]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Disabilities ]
[Healthcare ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Requiring, in order to make repairs to powered wheelchairs, that a certain manufacturer make available certain documentation, parts, embedded software, firmware, and tools to a certain independent repair provider or owner of a powered wheelchair; providing that a violation of the Act constitutes an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice subject to certain enforcement and penalty provisions; and applying the Act prospectively.
SB-382: Consumer Protection - Right to Repair - Powered Wheelchairs
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl Kagan
Referred Rules And Executive Nominations on 04/01/2025
Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program - Delay of Implementation [SB-355]
[Insurance ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
Altering, from July 1, 2025, to July 1, 2027, and from July 1, 2026, to July 1, 2028, the dates on which the payment of contributions and the submission of claims for benefits, respectively, are to begin under the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program.
SB-355: Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program - Delay of Implementation
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Hershey
Hearing 2/05 At 2:00 P.m. on 01/20/2025
Relating To Insurance. [SB-142]
[Insurance ]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Allows an insured to authorize the insurer to electronically remit claim proceeds to the insured's mortgagee when a homeowners insurance policy that covers a mortgaged property allows for the payment of proceeds by issuing a check. Requires a mortgagee in receipt of electronic delivery of claim proceeds to deliver the proceeds of the claim to the insured in accordance with the mortgage agreement and the insurance policy. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
SB-142: Relating To Insurance.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joy San Buenaventura
Pass First Reading on 03/06/2025
Insurance Discrimination Elected Official [HB-5]
[Insurance ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Ethics ]
An Act prohibiting certain insurance decisions based solely on a person's status as an elected official.
HB-5: Insurance Discrimination Elected Official
Sponsored by: Rep. George Rauscher
Prefile Released 1/10/25 on 01/22/2025
Flood Insurance [SB-11]
[Insurance ]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Housing ]
An Act relating to flood insurance; relating to property insurance; establishing the Alaska Flood Authority and the Alaska flood insurance fund; and providing for an effective date.
SB-11: Flood Insurance
Sponsored by: Sen. Bert Stedman
L&c Rpt 2dp 2nr on 04/07/2025
AN ACT relating to insurance. [HB-184]
[Insurance ]
Amend KRS 304.3-705 to extend the insurance regulatory sandbox program until December 31, 2030; amend KRS 304.3-735 to extend the commissioner's reporting requirement.
HB-184: AN ACT relating to insurance.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Clines
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 67) on 03/24/2025
AN ACT relating to the donation of food. [HB-186]
[Food ]
[Nonprofit ]
[Religion ]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Public Health ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Small Business ]
Amend KRS 217.127 to define " charitable food donor" as a nonprofit or religious organization that is recognized as tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or home-based processor, which produces food for distribution to a homeless shelter or to individuals displaced due to a declared natural disaster; exempt a charitable food donor from the licensing requirements of KRS 217.005 to 217.215 and application of State Plumbing Code requirements; amend KRS 217.218 to conform; amend KRS 411.241 to exempt a nonprofit or religious
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HB-186: AN ACT relating to the donation of food.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/12/2025
State Procurement - Transparency and Procedures [HB-304]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Ethics ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Requiring a unit of State government to provide a certain debriefing of a contract award to certain persons on request; requiring each procurement contract to include a clause pertaining to certain contract modifications related to changes in law; altering from 30 to 60 days the time within which a written notice of a claim relating to a certain procurement contract shall be made; altering the procedures for reviewing and making a certain determination related to a certain contract claim; etc.
HB-304: State Procurement - Transparency and Procedures
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Hearing 3/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/20/2025
Maryland Tort Claims Act - Employees of an Office of a Sheriff [SB-271]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Providing that an employee of the office of a sheriff of a county or Baltimore City is immune from liability under the Maryland Tort Claims Act in the same manner as a sheriff or deputy sheriff.
SB-271: Maryland Tort Claims Act - Employees of an Office of a Sheriff
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Jackson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 133 on 04/22/2025
Electronic Benefits Transfer Cards - Restoration and Receipt of Benefits and Use at Automated Teller Machines [HB-175]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring, subject to a certain provision of law, the Department of Human Services to reimburse a beneficiary for any benefits lost due to the fraudulent use of the beneficiary's Electronic Benefits Transfer card and restore the benefits without further action from the household; requiring, on or before January 1, 2026, each operator of an automated teller machine to ensure that the machine has the functionality to process and dispense cash from an Electronic Benefits Transfer card; etc.
HB-175: Electronic Benefits Transfer Cards - Restoration and Receipt of Benefits and Use at Automated Teller Machines
Sponsored by: Rep.
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/03/2025
Electronic Benefits Transfer Cards - Restoration and Receipt of Benefits and Use at Automated Teller Machines [SB-232]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
[Poverty ]
Requiring, subject to a certain provision of law, the Department of Human Services to reimburse a beneficiary for any benefits lost due to the fraudulent use of the beneficiary's Electronic Benefits Transfer card and restore the benefits without further action from the household; requiring, on or before January 1, 2026, each operator of an automated teller machine to ensure that the machine has the functionality to process and dispense cash from an Electronic Benefits Transfer card; etc.
SB-232: Electronic Benefits Transfer Cards - Restoration and Receipt of Benefits and Use at Automated Teller Machines
Sponsored by: Sen.
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/03/2025
Private Passenger Motor Vehicle Insurance - Premium Increase - Prohibition [HB-148]
[Insurance ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Prohibiting an insurer, with respect to private passenger motor vehicle insurance, from increasing a policy premium based on the claims history of an insured where two or fewer of the claims within the preceding 3-year period were for occurrences where the insured was not at fault for the loss.
Workers' Compensation - Payment From Uninsured Employers' Fund - Revisions [SB-227]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
Authorizing the Worker's Compensation Commission to offset or credit against an award certain benefits paid by the Uninsured Employer's Fund; requiring the Workers' Compensation Commission to make the Fund a party to a claim filed against an uninsured employer; authorizing a covered employee or the dependents of a covered employee to apply to the Director of the Fund for payment from the Fund; requiring the Fund to pay certain additional awards under certain circumstances; etc.
SB-227: Workers' Compensation - Payment From Uninsured Employers' Fund - Revisions
Sponsored by: Sen.
Vetoed By The Governor (policy) on 05/16/2025