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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
Medicaid Sustainability Commission [SB-953]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Health ]
Establishing the Medicaid Sustainability Commission; providing for the membership, chair, and staffing of the Commission; prohibiting a member of the Commission from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of specified expenses; requiring the Commission to study and make recommendations regarding specified matters relating to the sustainability of the Maryland Medical Assistance Program; terminating the Act after June 30, 2014; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Middleton
Hearing 3/9 At 1:00 P.m. (budget And Taxation) on 03/02/2012
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Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Public Disclosure of Information [SB-950]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to make available to the public, beginning on January 1, 2013, and at specified times each year, specified information relating to the Maryland Medical Assistance Program; requiring the Department to make available to the public, beginning on January 1, 2013, and on January 1 of each year thereafter, specified models used by the Department for determining specified rates; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Middleton
Unfavorable Report By Finance on 03/27/2012
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State Board of Nursing - Sunset Extension and Revisions [SB-921]
[Healthcare ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
Continuing the State Board of Nursing by extending to July 1, 2023, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board; requiring that an evaluation of the Board and the statutes and regulations that relate to the Board be performed on or before July 1, 2022; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in consultation with the Department of Budget and Management, to contract with an independent entity for a specified management and personnel study with costs paid from the Board of Nursing Fund;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Joan Conway
Approved By The Governor on 05/22/2012
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Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Health Care Delivery Systems - Pilot [SB-904]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
Establishing a pilot project in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to test alternative and innovative health care delivery systems that provide services to the fee-for-service Maryland Medical Assistance Program population in a specified manner; requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to develop a specified request for proposals in consultation with specified individuals and entities; establishing the requirements a health care delivery system must meet to be eligible to participate in the pilot project; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Middleton
Hearing Cancelled on 03/13/2012
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Health - Lyme Disease - Patient Information and Admissibility of Test Results [SB-891]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Science ]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to develop and make available to licensed physicians a specified patient information sheet on Lyme disease and Post-treatment Lyme disease Syndrome; authorizing a licensed physician to give the patient information sheet to specified patients; prohibiting a specified laboratory test from being admitted as specified evidence in specified proceedings; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Brochin
Unfavorable Report By Education Health And Environmental Affairs Withdrawn on 02/21/2012
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Health Occupations Boards - Regulations - Scope of Practice Advisory Committees [SB-866]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
Authorizing the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt regulations governing the practices of specified health occupations boards and commissions under specified circumstances; authorizing the Secretary to convene specified advisory committees for specified purposes; requiring specified advisory committees to consist of specified members with specified expertise; requiring specified advisory committees to take into account specified considerations when reviewing scope of practice disputes; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joan Conway
Unfavorable Report By Education Health And Environmental Affairs on 03/07/2012
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Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Workgroup on Cancer Clusters and [SB-784]
[Environmental ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Science ]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in consultation with the Department of the Environment, to convene a workgroup to examine issues relating to the investigation of potential cancer clusters in the State and potential environmental causes of cancer; specifying issues to be examined; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to report findings of the workgroup on or before June 30, 2013; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
Re-referred Health And Government Operations on 04/07/2012
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Health Insurance - Coverage for Services Delivered Through Telemedicine [SB-781]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for health care services delivered through telemedicine in a specified manner; prohibiting insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from excluding a health care service from coverage solely because it is delivered by telemedicine and not in another manner; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Approved By The Governor on 05/22/2012
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Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Containment Laboratories - Oversight [SB-758]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Science ]
Establishing the Containment Laboratory Oversight Division in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; requiring the Division to establish and enforce specified standards and requirements relating to specified containment laboratories in the State for a specified purpose; requiring that on or after January 1, 2014, a facility be licensed by the Division before the facility may operate a containment laboratory; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Young
Unfavorable Report By Finance on 03/27/2012
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Health Insurance - Habilitative Services - Required Coverage, Workgroup, and [SB-744]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Disabilities ]
Specifying the format in which specified insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations must provide a notice about the coverage of habilitative services; requiring the Maryland Insurance Commissioner to establish a workgroup on access to habilitative services benefits; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Approved By The Governor on 05/02/2012
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Nursing Home Administrator License - Revocation or Surrender - Ban on [SB-737]
[Healthcare ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Prohibiting specified nursing homes or nursing home management firms from knowingly employing or retaining as a consultant an individual who has surrendered a specified license under specified circumstances to the State Board of Nursing Home Administrators or has had a license revoked by the Board based on specified grounds for discipline except in specified circumstances; prohibiting the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from reimbursing specified institutions and management firms under specified circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Of The Maryland Constitution on 05/24/2012
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Food Service Facilities - Open Windows and Doors [SB-634]
[Food ]
[Public Health ]
Authorizing a food service facility to operate with the outer doors or outer windows of the facility open unless the local health department finds evidence of specified vermin or flying insects while the facility is operating with the outer doors or outer windows open; requiring a food service facility to take specified actions under specified circumstances; authorizing a local health department to take specified actions under specified circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Middleton
Favorable With Amendments Report By Finance on 03/26/2012
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State Board of Physicians - Appointment and Term of Chair [SB-629]
[Healthcare ]
Requiring the Governor to appoint the chair of the State Board of Physicians; and establishing the term of office of the chair.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joan Conway
Vetoed By The Governor (duplicative) on 05/22/2012
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Education - Domicile Requirements for Attendance - Exception [SB-605]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Requiring a county superintendent to allow a child to remain at a specified school under specified circumstances; requiring the Secretary of Human Resources and the Secretary of Juvenile Services each to adopt regulations establishing factors relating to the best interests of specified children; requiring the State Department of Education to adopt specified regulations to implement specified provisions of a specified federal law; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Approved By The Governor on 05/22/2012
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Health Care Practitioners - Licensed Dentists, Physicians, and Podiatrists - [SB-603]
[Healthcare ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring licensed dentists, physicians, and podiatrists to comply with specified dispensing, labeling, inspection, packaging, recall procedure, and record keeping requirements as a condition of being allowed to personally prepare and dispense prescription drugs or devices and to comply with specified purchase, verification, reporting, and continuing education requirements as a condition of being allowed to personally prepare and dispense prescription drugs; requiring specified inspections; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joan Conway
Approved By The Governor on 05/02/2012
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Medical Assistance Program - Health Care for Mothers, Children, Seniors, and [SB-593]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Establishing a specified pilot program to enhance Maryland Medical Assistance Program services; requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to administer the pilot program; requiring the pilot program to provide specified services to a specified number of individuals; requiring the pilot program to include the development of a specified system, specified care coordination and programs, a network of specified practitioners and hospitals, and the development of a specified training institute; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Paul Pinsky
Unfavorable Report By Finance Withdrawn on 03/23/2012
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Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Subrogation - Reduction [SB-575]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Requiring under specified circumstances that the amount for which the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has a right of subrogation for health care benefits or services paid or payable on behalf of a Maryland Medical Assistance Program recipient be reduced by a specified amount related to the amount of specified attorney's fees incurred by the Program recipient; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Astle
Hearing 4/3 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/21/2012
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Home Visiting Accountability Act of 2012 [SB-566]
[Children and Youth ]
[Healthcare ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Health ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
Requiring the State to fund only evidence-based and promising home visiting programs for improving parent and child outcomes, as provided in the State budget; requiring specified home visiting programs to submit regular reports; requiring the development of reporting and monitoring procedures for specified home visiting programs by the Governor's Office for Children and the agencies of the Children's Cabinet; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Approved By The Governor on 04/10/2012
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Health - Cottage Food Businesses - Requirements [SB-550]
[Food ]
[Healthcare ]
[Small Business ]
[Public Health ]
Providing that a cottage food business is not required, under specified circumstances, to be licensed by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; providing that the owner of a cottage food business may sell only cottage food products that are stored on specified premises and prepackaged with a specified label; requiring the owner of a cottage food business to comply with specified county and municipal laws and ordinances; providing that a specified investigation of a cottage food business may include sampling; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Middleton
Approved By The Governor on 05/02/2012
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Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Long-Term Care Services - Eligibility [SB-539]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to provide an applicant for specified Maryland Medical Assistance Program services with a written notice of eligibility within a specified time period after the Department receives a specified application; providing that an applicant is presumptively eligible for specified Program benefits if the Department does not make an eligibility determination within a specified time period; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
First Reading Finance on 02/03/2012