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Maryland 2013 Regular Session
Community Health Resources Commission - Revisions [SB-881]
Authorizing the Community Health Resources Commission to contract with a specified third party for specified services; prohibiting a specified third party from releasing, publishing, or using in a specified manner specified information; providing that the power of the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene over a specified procurement procedure does not apply to the Commission; providing that, when procuring services or supplies, the Commission is subject to specified provisions of law; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Middleton
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 328 on 05/02/2013
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Department of Aging - Aging and Disability Resource Center Program - Maryland Access Point [SB-83]
Adding to the duties of the Secretary of Aging; establishing the Aging and Disability Resource Center Program in the Department of Aging; designating the Program as the State's Aging and Disability Resource Center for purposes of the federal Older Americans Act; requiring the Department to administer, supervise, and coordinate the Program with the cooperation of other State agencies; requiring the Program to designate local Program offices and provide specified services and materials; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 178 on 05/02/2013
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Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Safety Net Act of 2013 [SB-822]
Requiring the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish a specified Prison In-Reach Program; requiring each county board of education to include behavioral health services with school health services; requiring the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration to implement a specified program throughout the State to promote early identification of substance abuse; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Madaleno
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/27/2013
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Maryland Collaborative Reproduction Act [SB-792]
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.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Hearing 4/02 At 1:00 P.m. on 04/02/2013
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Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Advance Directive Registry - Fee and Date of Operation [SB-790]
Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to set a fee, by regulation, for specified services of the Advance Directive Registry; and requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to take the steps necessary to make the Registry operational on or before October 1, 2014.
Sponsored by: Sen. Roger Manno
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 549 on 05/16/2013
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Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Advisory Councils - Renaming and Termination [SB-79]
Renaming the State Advisory Council on Heart Disease and Stroke to be the State Advisory Council on Chronic Disease Prevention, Physical Fitness, and Healthy Eating; altering the duties and membership of the Advisory Council; requiring the membership of the Advisory Council to represent specified diversity of the State; altering the length of a member's term and the number of times the Advisory Council must meet each year; requiring the Advisory Council to create subcommittees to address specified topic areas; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Hearing 3/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/26/2013
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Task Force to Study Housing and Supportive Services for Unaccompanied Homeless Youth [SB-764]
Establishing the Task Force to Study Housing and Supportive Services for Unaccompanied Homeless Youth; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of specified expenses; establishing the duties of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to submit a specified report on or before November 1, 2013; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joan Conway
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 544 on 05/16/2013
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Health Occupations - Magnetic Resonance Imaging Services - Study [SB-738]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to conduct a specified study regarding the ordering of magnetic resonance imaging services by specified physicians; and requiring the Department to submit the results of the study to specified committees of the General Assembly on or before April 1, 2014.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
Unfavorable Report By Education, Health, And Environmental Affairs on 03/18/2013
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Virginia I. Jones Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Council [SB-679]
Establishing the Virginia I. Jones Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Council; providing for the membership of the Council; requiring the Governor to consider the geographic and demographic diversity of the State in appointing individuals to the Council; requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Secretary of Aging or their designees to cochair the Council; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, with assistance from the Department of Aging, to provide staff support for the Council; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 305 on 05/02/2013
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State Brain Injury Trust Fund [SB-632]
Establishing the State Brain Injury Trust Fund as a special fund used to support specified services for individuals with brain injuries; requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene or the Secretary's designee to administer the Fund; requiring the Secretary or the Secretary's designee to make specified reports; establishing eligibility for individuals to receive assistance from the Fund; requiring that specified investment earnings be credited to the Fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 511 on 05/16/2013
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Health - Overdose Response Program - Establishment [SB-610]
Providing for an Overdose Response Program overseen by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; requiring the Department to adopt regulations and authorizing the Department to take other actions; specifying the requirements an individual must meet to qualify for a specified certificate; authorizing a certified individual to receive a prescription for naloxone and supplies, possess prescribed naloxone and paraphernalia, and administer naloxone, under specified circumstances, to specified individuals; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 299 on 05/02/2013
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Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Judgments - Third-Party Tortfeasors [SB-502]
Requiring a specified judgment obtained in favor of a Maryland Medical Assistance Program recipient to be increased by a specified amount under specified circumstances; authorizing the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to collect from a Program recipient the full amount of specified payments in specified circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Astle
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings on 03/21/2013
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Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Telemedicine [SB-496]
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance program to provide a specified reimbursement for services delivered by telemedicine under specified circumstances; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt regulations for a specified purpose; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 280 on 05/02/2013
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Criminal Procedure - Supervising Authority - Sex Offender Transfer Notifications [SB-491]
Requiring a specified supervising authority operating a facility having custody of or providing residential or nonresidential reentry services to a registered sex offender to provide notice of a transfer of the registrant to a facility in another county to the local law enforcement unit in the county of the new facility and the Division of Parole and Probation within a specified period.
Sponsored by: Sen. Christopher Shank
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn on 03/18/2013
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Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act [SB-456]
Prohibiting, except in specified circumstances, the performance or inducement or attempted performance or inducement of an abortion of a pregnant woman unless a determination as to the probable age of the unborn child is made by a specified physician; providing that the failure of a physician to perform specified actions is deemed unprofessional conduct; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Edward Reilly
Hearing 3/20 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/20/2013
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Public Health - Abortion Survey System [SB-455]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish a mandatory abortion survey system; requiring specified hospitals and facilities to report abortions to the Department using a specified form, in a specified manner, and on or before January 15 of each year; providing that a report received by the Department under the Act is confidential, not a public record, may not include specified information, and shall be destroyed after specified data is used to prepare a specified report; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Edward Reilly
Unfavorable Report By Finance on 04/08/2013
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Residential Child Care Programs - Memorandum of Understanding [SB-442]
Requiring a contract awarded or renewed between a specified agency and a provider of a residential child care program to require the provider to enter into a memorandum of understanding with a specified community organization and post the memorandum of understanding in a specified location; specifying the contents of a memorandum of understanding; requiring a memorandum of understanding to be in writing and signed by specified representatives; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lisa Gladden
Unfavorable Report By Education, Health, And Environmental Affairs on 03/04/2013
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Pharmacists - Administration of Vaccinations - Expanded Authority and Reporting Requirements [SB-401]
Altering the authority of pharmacists to administer vaccinations; authorizing a pharmacist to administer vaccinations to an individual in a specified age group who has a prescription or to an adult under a written protocol that meets specified requirements; altering a vaccination reporting requirement; requiring a pharmacist, under specified circumstances, to document at least one effort to inform specified health care practitioners or other sources of care that a vaccination has been administered; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Roy Dyson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 255 on 05/02/2013
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Health - Food Allergy Awareness, Food Safety, and Food Service Facility Letter Grading - Posting Requirement and Task Force [SB-390]
Requiring a food establishment, beginning March 1, 2014, to display a specified poster relating to food allergies; requiring, on or before January 1, 2014, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in consultation with the Restaurant Association of Maryland and Food Allergy Research and Education, to create and make available on its Web site a specified poster; establishing a Task Force to Study Food Allergy Awareness, Food Safety, and Food Service Facility Letter Grading; requiring a report on or before January 1, 2014; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jamin Raskin
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 251 on 05/02/2013
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Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Study of Paratransit Services for Dialysis Patients [SB-386]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to conduct a specified study of paratransit services provided for dialysis patients in the State; requiring the study to make specified determinations and evaluate scheduling of specified dialysis treatments; and requiring the Department to report the findings and any recommendations based on the study to the Governor and specified committees of the General Assembly on or before December 15, 2013.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Middleton
Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/12/2013