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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Health Benefit Exchanges - Establishment and Operation [SB-107]
Requiring a health benefit exchange to be established as a nonprofit entity; prohibiting an exchange from being established as a governmental agency; establishing the primary purpose of an exchange; requiring an exchange to focus its efforts on carrying out specified exchange functions; prohibiting an exchange from taking on specified functions, providing specified products or services, or soliciting business from specified persons; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Astle
Unfavorable Report By Finance on 03/25/2011
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State Board of Environmental Health Specialists - Transfer of Responsibilities [HB-989]
Renaming the State Board of Environmental Sanitarians to be the State Board of Environmental Health Specialists; transferring the duties of the Board from the Department of the Environment to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; renaming environmental sanitarians to be environmental health specialists; altering the length of terms for Board members; altering the number of terms certain Board members may serve; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. James Hubbard
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations Withdrawn on 03/15/2011
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Public Health - Cord Blood Transplant Program [HB-983]
Establishing the Cord Blood Transplant Program in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for specified purposes; establishing the Cord Blood Transplant Center Support Fund; providing for the purpose of the Fund; requiring the Department to administer the Fund; specifying that the Fund is a special, nonlapsing fund not subject to a specified provision of law; requiring the State Treasurer to hold the fund separately and invest and reinvest money in the Fund in a specified manner; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Approved By The Governor on 05/19/2011
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Developmental Disabilities Administration - Licensees - Duties and Immunities [HB-980]
Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt rules and regulations that require a licensee of the Developmental Disabilities Administration to take specified actions before hiring an employee; requiring specified licensees to respond promptly to specified requests for information; providing that persons that make specified disclosures to specified employers shall have immunities and protections; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Barbara Robinson
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations on 03/15/2011
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Behavioral Health - Integration of Mental Health and Addiction Treatment [HB-97]
Requiring the Deputy Secretary of Behavioral Health and Disabilities in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to develop a plan to integrate the provision of mental health and addiction treatment services and to convene a specified workgroup; providing for the membership of the workgroup; requiring the workgroup to make specified findings and recommendations; and requiring the workgroup to report to committees of the General Assembly on or before January 1, 2012.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adelaide Eckardt
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations Withdrawn on 02/22/2011
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Dining Out Growth Act of 2011 [HB-941]
Authorizing a restaurant with an outdoor dining area to allow a patron's dog to accompany the patron in the outdoor dining area of the restaurant during specified hours; requiring specified restaurant owners to give notice to local health departments under specified circumstances; authorizing restaurant owners to make specified determinations and to limit the size and type of dog that may accompany a patron into the outdoor dining area; requiring specified restaurant owners to post a notice; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bonnie Cullison
Approved By The Governor on 05/19/2011
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Departments of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Environment - Fluoride Levels [HB-901]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Department of the Environment jointly to conduct a study, in consultation with specified county boards of health, regarding fluoridation levels in public drinking water in the State and to report their findings and analysis to the General Assembly on or before September 30, 2012.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations Withdrawn on 03/08/2011
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Engine Coolant and Antifreeze Bittering Agent Act [HB-897]
Prohibiting a person from selling or offering for sale engine coolant or antifreeze that contains more than 10% ethylene glycol unless it contains not less than 30 parts per million nor more than 50 parts per million denatonium benzoate; providing that the Act does not apply to specified engine coolant or antifreeze sales; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. C. William Frick
Approved By The Governor on 05/19/2011
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Hospitals - Medical Harm Disclosure Act [HB-821]
Altering the requirements for hospital licensure; requiring hospitals to report medical harm events to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; requiring hospitals that have had no medical harm events to make a specified statement to the Department; requiring hospitals to establish a patient safety program; requiring hospitals to inform specified persons of medical harm events, interview persons about medical harm events, and include a medical harm event on a death certificate under specified circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Carolyn Howard
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations on 03/15/2011
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Health Care Decisions Act - "Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment" Form [HB-82]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in conjunction with the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems and the State Board of Physicians, to develop and periodically revise a "Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment" form; requiring specified health care facilities and authorizing other health care providers to use a "Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment" form; repealing provisions of law relating to the "Instructions on Current Life-Sustaining Treatment Options" form; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
Approved By The Governor on 05/19/2011
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Manufacturers of Prescribed Products - Payments to Health Care Professionals - [HB-818]
Prohibiting a manufacturer of prescribed products from offering or giving a gift to a health care professional; authorizing exceptions from the prohibition for samples, loans of medical devices, articles or journals, scholarships or other support, payments for specified conferences or seminars, honoraria and payment of expenses, costs of clinical trials and research projects, payments for scientific consulting, payment or reimbursement for technical training, royalties, and licensing fees, and donated health care products; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations Withdrawn on 03/25/2011
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Behavioral Health - Veterans - Coordination and Provision of Services [HB-793]
Reenacting specified provisions of law that were abrogated as of May 31, 2011, to provide for the continuance of the coordination of specified behavioral health services for specified veterans; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in collaboration with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs, the Maryland National Guard, and the Maryland Defense Force, to provide behavioral health services coordination for specified veterans, subject to specified limitations; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Carolyn Howard
Approved By The Governor on 04/12/2011
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Family Planning Works Act [HB-778]
Altering the eligibility requirements for family planning services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program by requiring the Program to provide those services beginning on January 1, 2012, to all women whose family income is at or below 200 percent of the poverty level, as permitted by federal law.
Sponsored by: Rep. C. William Frick
Approved By The Governor on 05/19/2011
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Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2011 [HB-72]
Altering or repealing required appropriations; altering the distribution of revenues; altering or repealing specified funding requirements; altering the authorized use of specified funds; altering for a specified fiscal year a specified percentage used to determine eligibility for and the amount of State grants to specified counties and Baltimore City based on per capita yield of county income taxes; altering the amount of a surcharge imposed for recording specified instruments for specified fiscal years; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor on 05/19/2011
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Health - Maryland Combating Childhood Obesity Grant Program [HB-716]
Establishing the Maryland Combating Childhood Obesity Grant Program; establishing the Maryland Combating Childhood Obesity Fund; specifying that an exemption from the sales and use tax does not apply to snack food; requiring the Comptroller to distribute sales and use tax revenue collected from the sale of snack food in a specified manner; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Feldman
Hearing 2/22 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/11/2011
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Health - Newborn Screening Program - Critical Congenital Heart Disease [HB-714]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt specified federal recommendations on critical congenital heart disease screening in newborns under specified circumstances; requiring the State Advisory Council on Hereditary and Congenital Disorders to develop recommendations for critical congenital heart disease screening of newborns in the State; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Feldman
Approved By The Governor on 05/19/2011
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Maryland Cardiovascular Patient Safety Act [HB-690]
Requiring that on or before May 31, 2014, cardiovascular catheterization laboratories hold a specified accreditation or certification; requiring cardiovascular catheterization laboratories to be subject to peer review; requiring the Department, the Maryland Health Care Commission, and the Health Services Cost Review Commission to give specified consideration to data from a registry to determine criteria and measures for hospitals and providers using specified cardiovascular procedures; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations Withdrawn on 03/25/2011
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Education - Bullying Safety Risks and Health Problems [HB-685]
Requiring the State Board of Education to include in a specified model policy information on safety risks and health and mental problems that may affect a student who is a victim or an alleged perpetrator of bullying, harassment, or intimidation.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Feldman
Unfavorable Report By Education Health And Environmental Affairs on 04/07/2011
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Education - Human Trafficking - Awareness, Training, and Distribution of [HB-674]
Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, to provide awareness and training for Directors of Student Services in local education agencies on human trafficking; and requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in consultation with experts in the field of human trafficking prevention, to provide to the State Department of Education specified information and materials on human trafficking.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Luedtke
Approved By The Governor on 04/12/2011
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Health Care Providers - Investigations - Information Sharing Among State [HB-600]
Adding to the list of entities to which the Health Services Cost Review Commission may disclose physician information; altering the list of entities that may be medical review committees charged by law to evaluate matters relating to health care providers; requiring the Board of Physicians to disclose information contained in a record to the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene and specified agencies for a specified purpose; specifying that provisions of the Act do not alter the authority of the Secretary; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Bromwell
Approved By The Governor on 05/10/2011