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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Safety Net Act of 2014 [HB-273]
Requiring the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) to establish a specified Prison In-Reach Program; requiring each county board of education to include behavioral health services with school health services; requiring DHMH to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before October 1, 2014 on a plan for statewide implementation of the School Health Program; requiring the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration to implement a specified program throughout the State; etc.
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Maryland Collaborative Reproduction Act [HB-236]
Establishing the Maryland Collaborative Reproduction Act; establishing the purposes of the Act; establishing rights and obligations of specified intended parents who use gamete or embryo donors to conceive a child through collaborative reproduction; establishing specified rights of a child conceived through collaborative reproduction; establishing that a gamete or an embryo donor is not a parent of a child conceived through collaborative reproduction under specified circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Public Health - Child Care Products Containing Flame-Retardant Chemicals - TDCPP - Prohibition [HB-229]
Prohibiting a person from importing, selling, or offering for sale specified child care products containing specified flame-retardant chemicals; authorizing the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to suspend implementation of specified provisions of the Act if the Secretary makes a specified determination; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt specified regulations on or before January 1, 2015; etc.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
State Government - Administrative Procedure Act - Effective Date of Adopted Regulations [HB-166]
Altering the effective dates of specified regulations adopted under the Administrative Procedure Act.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Newborn Screening Program Fund - Establishment [HB-1542]
Establishing the Newborn Screening Program Fund; requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to administer the Fund; providing for the uses, purposes, sources of funding, investment of money, and auditing of the Fund; providing that the Fund is a continuing, nonlapsing fund not subject to specified provisions of law; requiring the Secretary to pay specified fees to the Comptroller; requiring the Comptroller to distribute the specified fees to the Newborn Screening Program Fund; etc.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Health - Newborn Screening Program - Krabbe Leukodystrophy [HB-153]
Requiring that the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Newborn Screening Program include screening for Krabbe leukodystrophy.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
State Government - Commission on Efficiency in State Government - Establishment [HB-1525]
Establishing the Commission on Efficiency in State Government; requiring the Commission to study and make recommendations regarding the efficiency of units of State government; requiring a unit to provide the Commission with any information the Commission requires to carry out its duties; requiring, under specified circumstances, the General Assembly to reduce the amount included in specified budget bills for specified units by a specified amount; etc.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Adult Dependent Care Providers - Maryland Background Check Program [HB-1511]
Establishing the Maryland Background Check Program in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; providing for the purpose of the Program; requiring an adult dependent care provider to obtain a specified fitness determination from the Program for specified employees; requiring an adult dependent care provider to require specified applicants to submit specified documentation and to submit to a preliminary screening and a State and national criminal history records check to obtain a specified fitness determination; etc.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Behavioral Health Administration - Establishment and Duties [HB-1510]
Merging the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration and the Mental Hygiene Administration in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish the Behavioral Health Administration in the Department; establishing the responsibilities, powers, and duties of the Director of the Behavioral Health Administration; requiring substance use disorder programs and mental health programs to be licensed by the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, with specified exceptions; repealing a specified prohibition; etc.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Services for Children With Prader-Willi Syndrome [HB-1497]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to apply to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a home- and community-based services waiver in order to receive federal matching funds for specified services to specified children with Prader-Willi syndrome.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Mental Health Facilities - Accreditation [HB-1489]
Repealing a requirement that the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene consider accreditation of specified mental health facilities by specified accrediting organizations; and authorizing the Secretary to consider accreditation of specified mental health facilities by an accrediting organization approved by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Board of Review - Jurisdiction [HB-1456]
Limiting the jurisdiction of the Board of Review of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to hear and determine appeals from decisions of the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene and units in the Department; authorizing the Board to hear and determine any appeal from a decision of the Secretary in a contested case concerning an individual's eligibility for or participation in specified programs; providing for the application of the Act to decisions of the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene issued on or after June 1, 2014; etc.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Community Services - Provider Reimbursement [HB-1434]
Repealing the Community Services Reimbursement Rate Commission; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish and hire an independent contractor to verify a specified cost structure related to inflationary cost adjustments for community services providers; requiring the Department to conduct a specified study and assess specified cost structures in a specified manner; requiring a specified independent contractor to collect and analyze specified data and conduct a specified assessment; etc.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Establishment of a Sickle Cell Disease Outreach Program [HB-1405]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish, before June 1, 2015, a specified sickle cell disease outreach program; requiring that the program provide specified programs, support, and services; and requiring the Governor, beginning with fiscal year 2016, to include in the State budget an appropriation of at least $250,000 for the program.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Developmental Disabilities - Residential Programs - Reimbursement for Visitation Absence Days [HB-1380]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to reimburse specified providers of services to individuals with developmental disabilities in specified residential programs for a visitation absence day; prohibiting the Department from imposing specified limitations on specified reimbursement to specified providers for visitation absence days; etc.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Drivers' Licenses - Disorder, Disease, or Physical Disability - Defining and Reporting [HB-1339]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, and the State Board of Examiners in Optometry to define diseases and physical disabilities that may render an individual unable to exercise reasonable control over a motor vehicle; expanding the scope of health care professionals authorized to make a specified report to the Medical Advisory Board; etc.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Maryland No-Fault Birth Injury Fund [HB-1337]
Establishing a system for adjudication of a claim involving a birth-related neurological injury; excluding specified rights and remedies of a claimant and specified other persons; providing for specified procedures; providing for specified benefits and compensation of a claimant under the Act; establishing the Maryland No-Fault Birth Injury Fund; providing for specified premiums and insurance surcharges to be used to finance and administer the Fund; etc.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Public Health - Emergency Use Auto-Injectable Epinephrine Program [HB-1333]
Establishing the Emergency Use Auto-Injectable Epinephrine Program in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; providing for the purpose of the Program; authorizing the Department to adopt specified regulations, collect specified fees, issue and renew specified certificates, and conduct and approve specified training programs relating to the Program; establishing qualifications for applicants for a certificate; requiring the Department to issue specified certificates to specified applicants; etc.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Marijuana Commission - Treatment, Certification, Licensing, and Registration [HB-1321]
Expanding the scope of authority and the duties of the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Marijuana Commission relating to the treatment of patients qualified to use medical marijuana; authorizing the Commission to set fees; providing that the fees are part of a specified fund; encouraging the Commission to approve specified applications; authorizing the Commission to approve specified applications; requiring the Commission to make an annual report regarding specified medical marijuana treatment centers; etc.
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
State Personnel - Applicants for Employment - Criminal History Records Check - Exemptions [HB-1309]
Exempting specified positions in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from a provision of law that prohibits specified appointing authorities in State government from inquiring into the criminal record or criminal history of an applicant for employment until the applicant has been provided an opportunity for an interview.