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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Public Health - Food Establishments - Transportation of Perishable Foods [HB-127]
Requiring specified food establishments to transport perishable foods from a wholesale food warehouse or distribution center in accordance with specified standards; requiring a wholesale food warehouse or distribution center to display a specified sign; and requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt regulations establishing specified standards for the transportation of perishable foods, requirements for the display of a specified sign, and specified fines.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations Withdrawn on 02/16/2010
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Suspension of Medicaid and Children's Health Program Benefits - Juvenile [HB-1242]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to suspend the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Maryland Children's Health Program benefits for individuals under the age of 18 who are incarcerated; and prohibiting the Department from terminating the Program or the Maryland Children's Health Program benefits for individuals under the age of 18 based on the incarceration of the individual.
Sponsored by: Sen. Victor Ramirez
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations on 03/26/2010
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Developmental Disabilities Administration - Low Intensity Support Services [HB-1226]
Establishing a Low Intensity Support Services Program in the Developmental Disabilities Administration; requiring low intensity support services to be flexible to meet the needs of individuals and families; requiring the Developmental Disabilities Administration to provide specified funding for low intensity support services for specified individuals; providing that individuals seeking low intensity support services are not required to submit or complete specified applications; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
Approved By The Governor on 05/20/2010
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Health Care Facilities - Abuser [HB-1162]
Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish a registry that includes specified information on employees of health care facilities who were terminated for abusing or neglecting a specified individual in a health care facility; requiring the placement of the employee on the registry under specified circumstances; authorizing specified health care facilities to have access to the registry; prohibiting a health care facility from employing an individual listed in the registry; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Barbara Robinson
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations on 04/10/2010
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Health Occupations Boards - Revisions [HB-114]
Requiring health occupations boards to provide notification to licensees or certificate holders of board vacancies; requiring health occupations boards to collect specified racial and ethnic information; requiring that, to the extent practicable, members of health occupations boards reasonably reflect the geographic, racial, ethnic, cultural, and gender diversity of the State; requiring specified health occupations boards to develop a specified training process and materials for board members; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
Approved By The Governor on 05/20/2010
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Health Improvement and Disease [HB-1105]
Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for specified health- and fitness-related expenses; limiting the amount of expenses that specified taxpayers may subtract from federal adjusted gross income; requiring the Comptroller in cooperation with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt regulations and report to the General Assembly; applying the Act to tax years after 2010; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Bromwell
First Reading Ways And Means on 02/17/2010
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Criminal Law - First Degree Escape - Escape from Drug and Alcohol Treatment [HB-1035]
Prohibiting a defendant from knowingly escaping from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene after a commitment by a court for treatment of alcohol or drug dependency; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of the felony of escape in the first degree.
Sponsored by: Rep. James King
Unfavorable Report By Judiciary on 03/15/2010
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Community Services Reimbursement Rate Commission - Developmental Disabilities [HB-1034]
Requiring the Community Services Reimbursement Rate Commission to determine a weighted average cost structure of specified developmental disabilities service providers and community mental health service providers in a specified manner; requiring the Commission to include in an existing annual report an analysis of the impact of a specified annual inflationary cost adjustment on the financial condition of specified providers; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
Approved By The Governor on 05/20/2010
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Juvenile Law - Lead Testing - Authorized [HB-1011]
Authorizing the juvenile court to order a child to undergo blood lead level testing after a petition has been filed but before an adjudication; authorizing a court exercising criminal jurisdiction in a case involving a child to order the child to undergo blood level testing before trial; and requiring a copy of the blood lead level test results to be provided to the child, the child's parent or guardian, the child's counsel, and the State's Attorney.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Approved By The Governor on 05/04/2010
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Hearing- or Speech-Impaired Children - Sign Language Instruction for Parents and Guardians [SB-1150]
Requiring an individualized education program for a child with a hearing or speech impairment to include educating the child's parents or guardians in basic sign language; requiring that the Maryland Infants and Toddlers Program include resources such as basic sign language education, digital teaching tools, and online instruction for specified parents or guardians; altering the name of the universal newborn screening program to be the universal newborn screening and parental education program; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Young
Unfavorable Report By Education, Health, And Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn on 03/23/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Public Health - Vital Records - Fees [HB-1602]
Prohibiting the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from collecting a fee for a copy of a vital record issued to a law enforcement agency or a State's Attorney's office in connection with a criminal investigation or prosecution; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 02/22/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Public Health - Generic Drugs and Medical Supplies Purchasing Cooperative Workgroup [HB-1610]
Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to convene a workgroup to study the advisability of the State, along with hospitals, pharmacies, health care facilities and private medical practices, forming a generic drugs and medical supplies purchasing cooperative; requiring that the workgroup include specified individuals; requiring the workgroup to make recommendations regarding specified matters and report its findings to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before January 1, 2018; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris West
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations; Withdrawn on 03/24/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Public Health - Generic Drugs and Medical Supplies Purchasing Cooperative Workgroup [SB-1126]
Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to convene a workgroup to study the advisability of the State, along with hospitals, pharmacies, health care facilities, and private medical practices, forming a generic drugs and medical supplies purchasing cooperative; requiring the workgroup to include specified individuals; requiring the workgroup to make recommendations regarding specified matters and report its findings to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before January 1, 2018; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Paul Pinsky
Hearing 3/22 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/22/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Substance Use Disorder Treatment - Licensing of Outpatient Programs and Provision of Naloxone Kits [SB-1129]
Prohibiting the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene from requiring, under specified circumstances, that an outpatient substance use disorder treatment program be granted specified accreditation as a condition of licensure; requiring each hospital emergency department to establish and implement a policy of providing a naloxone kit to patients admitted for an opioid overdose and training the patients in the proper method of administering the naloxone before the patient is released; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jim Mathias
Hearing 3/22 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/22/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Nursing Homes - Partial Payment for Services Provided [HB-1599]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to make a specified advance payment to a nursing home at the request of the nursing home under specified circumstances; providing that the advance payment may not exceed 50% of the estimated amount due for the uncompensated services; requiring the Department to pay the balance due to a nursing home under specified circumstances; requiring the Department to recover specified advance payments in a specified manner under specified circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matt Morgan
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 02/22/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Nursing Homes - Partial Payment for Services Provided [SB-1109]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to make an advance payment to a nursing home at the request of the nursing home under specified circumstances; providing that the advance payment may not exceed 50% of the estimated amount due for the uncompensated services; requiring the Department to pay the balance due to a nursing home under specified circumstances; requiring a specified report regarding eligibility applications be submitted to specified committees of the General Assembly by December 31, 2018; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Middleton
Hearing 4/10 At 1:00 P.m. on 04/10/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Public Health - Drug Overdose Prevention Programs - Revisions [HB-1549]
Authorizing the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to deny, suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew the registration of a person who manufactures, distributes, or dispenses a controlled dangerous substance in the State under specified conditions; requiring a local drug overdose fatality review team to review specified information and records related to a specified individual; providing the Overdose Response Program to authorize specified individuals to administer an opioid antagonist under specified circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Hearing 3/16 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/16/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Primary and Secondary Education - Health and Safety Guidelines and Procedures - Digital Devices [SB-1089]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop health and safety guidelines and procedures for the use of digital devices in public school classrooms; and requiring each county board of education to implement specified health and safety guidelines and procedures for the use of digital devices in public school classrooms beginning in the 2018-2019 school year.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
Unfavorable Report By Education, Health, And Environmental Affairs on 03/17/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Health - Family Planning Services - Continuity of Care [SB-1081]
Establishing the Family Planning Program in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to ensure the continuity of family planning services in the State; requiring the Program to provide family planning services to specified individuals through specified providers; authorizing the Department to adopt specified regulations; requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to ensure access to and continuity of services provided by specified family planning providers in a specified manner; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 810 on 05/27/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Behavioral Health Administration - Outpatient Civil Commitment Pilot Program [SB-1042]
Authorizing the Behavioral Health Administration to establish an outpatient civil commitment pilot program to allow for the release of an individual who is involuntarily admitted for inpatient treatment under a specified provision of law on the condition of the individual's admission into the pilot program; requiring the pilot program to include specified criteria, requirements, and rights; requiring the Administration, under specified circumstances, to submit a specified report by December 1 of each year; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Middleton
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 577 on 05/25/2017