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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
State Board of Dental Examiners - Ownership, Management, and Operation of a Dental Practice [HB-1283]
Requiring a dental practice to be owned, managed, and operated by a licensed dentist, subject to specified exceptions; authorizing unlicensed persons to take specified actions; authorizing the State Board of Dental Examiners to issue a cease and desist order for specified violations; altering the penalties for the unauthorized practice of dentistry; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Hearing 3/07 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/07/2016
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Anne Arundel County Board of Education - Human Trafficking Awareness Pilot Program [HB-1273]
Establishing the Human Trafficking Awareness Pilot Program in Anne Arundel County; requiring the Anne Arundel County Board of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, to provide awareness for all school-based personnel on human trafficking; requiring the Department and the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to provide materials to the Board describing specified resources available for school-based personnel; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Hearing 3/30 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/30/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Poly-Morphone-Assisted Treatment Pilot Program - Harm Reduction Act of 2016 [HB-1267]
Establishing the Poly-Morphone-Assisted Treatment Pilot Program; defining "Poly-Morphone-Assisted Treatment" as administering or dispensing of pharmaceutical-grade heroin, hydromorphone, or other opiates by a health care practitioner to select opioid-dependent individuals; requiring the Program to begin on or before January 1, 2018, and to continue for a period of 4 years; establishing the Poly-Morphone-Assisted Treatment Pilot Program Advisory Board; providing for the purpose and membership of the Advisory Board; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dan Morhaim
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations; Withdrawn on 03/24/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Specialty Care - Prohibition on Authorization [HB-1243]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, on or before December 1, 2016, to adopt regulations that require the Department to determine the date on which the eligibility of a Maryland Medical Assistance Program recipient ends, require the Department to include specified information on an authorization for specialty care, and prohibit the Department from authorizing specialty care beyond the date on which the eligibility of a Program recipient ends; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Hill
Hearing 3/01 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/01/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Nursing Services - Skills Checklist [HB-1235]
Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to specify in regulations the skills checklist used as part of the process of determining the competency of nurses, certified nursing assistants, and home health aides to render nursing services through a residential service agency or a home health agency that is participating in the Maryland Medical Assistance Program.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris West
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations; Withdrawn on 03/18/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Presumptive Eligibility - Required Participation by Hospitals [HB-1221]
Requiring licensed hospitals that participate in the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to agree to make presumptive eligibility determinations for the Program and actively submit presumptive eligibility applications to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on or before July 1, 2016; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Peter Hammen
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations; Withdrawn on 04/06/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Health Program Integrity and Recovery Activities [HB-1220]
Authorizing the Inspector General or a specified Assistant Inspector General in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to subpoena any person or evidence, administer oaths, and take depositions and other testimony for the purpose of investigating fraud, waste, or abuse of departmental program funds; authorizing a specified court to take specified actions under specified circumstances if a person fails to comply with a specified order or subpoena; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Bromwell
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 136 on 04/12/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Specialty Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Services - Parity [HB-1217]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt regulations to ensure that the Maryland Medical Assistance Program is in compliance with specified federal laws; providing that the Department is not required to adopt specified regulations for any changes that may be made through a process other than the regulatory process; requiring the regulations to include standards regarding treatment limitations for specialty mental health and substance use disorder services that comply with the federal laws; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 505 on 05/10/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Public Health - Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Safer Drug Use Facility Program [HB-1212]
Authorizing the establishment of an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Safer Drug Use Facility Program by specified entities in specified jurisdictions; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to make a specified determination on a specified application based on specified criteria and within a specified period of time; requiring a Program to provide specified services; authorizing a Program to provide specified services; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dan Morhaim
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations; Withdrawn on 03/24/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Prince George's County - Community-Based Developmental Disabilities Services Providers - County Minimum Wage Reimbursement PG 414-16 [HB-1200]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, under specified circumstances, to reimburse community-based developmental disabilities services providers located in Prince George's County at a rate sufficient to ensure that the hourly wage paid to community direct service workers in the county is the same percentage above the county minimum wage rate as community direct service workers outside the county are paid above the State minimum wage rate; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Unfavorable Report By Economic Matters on 03/14/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Food Service Facilities - Automated External Defibrillator Program [HB-1194]
Requiring the owner and operator of a food service facility with an annual gross income of $400,000 or more and a seating capacity of 50 or more persons to develop and implement an automated external defibrillator program that meets specified requirements; and requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems jointly to adopt specified regulations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bonnie Cullison
Hearing 3/08 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/08/2016
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State Government - Administrative Procedure Act - Effective Date of Adopted Regulations [HB-1193]
Altering the effective dates of specified regulations adopted under the Administrative Procedure Act.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
First Reading Education, Health, And Environmental Affairs on 03/21/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Workgroup to Study the Effect of Poverty on the Behavioral Health of Children [HB-1184]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Maryland State Department of Education, the Department of Human Resources, and specified other parties to establish a workgroup to study the effect of poverty on the behavioral health of children; requiring the workgroup to review specified studies and methods and to make specified recommendations; and requiring the workgroup, on or before December 31, 2016, to submit a specified report to the Governor and specified committees of the General Assembly.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Lewis Young
Hearing 3/08 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/08/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Determinations of Eligibility for Long-Term Care Services - Reports and Meetings [HB-1181]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in consultation with the Department of Human Resources, to submit a report on the State's progress in determining the eligibility of applicants for long-term care services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to specified committees of the General Assembly on or before October 1, 2016, and quarterly thereafter; requiring that specified meetings be held to discuss the reports and to develop strategies to resolve ongoing issues with delays in eligibility determinations; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 303 on 04/26/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Primary and Secondary Education - Immunizations of Children Entering School [HB-1178]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in cooperation with the State Board of Education and the Statewide Advisory Commission on Immunizations, to adopt regulations requiring that before a child enters ninth grade, the child has received a specified number of doses of human papillomavirus vaccine.
Sponsored by: Rep. Angela Angel
Unfavorable Report By Ways And Means; Withdrawn on 03/16/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Vital Records - New Certificates of Birth - Gender Identity [HB-1099]
Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to make a new certificate of birth for an individual if the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene receives a written request and a signed statement that an individual's gender identity differs from the sex designated on the original certificate of birth; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bonnie Cullison
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations; Withdrawn on 03/17/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Public Safety and Policing Workgroup - Recommendations [HB-1016]
Prohibiting retaliatory personnel action against a law enforcement officer who discloses specified information; authorizing the appointment to an administrative hearing board a member of the public who has received specified training; establishing the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission as an independent commission in the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services; establishing the Community Law Enforcement Program Fund; requiring the Governor to include an appropriation to the Fund of $500,000 annually; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 519 on 05/19/2016
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Gas and Electricity - Smart Meters - Customer Rights and Required Reports [SB-9]
Requiring a utility company to give specified written notice to specified customers prior to deploying smart meters throughout all or a portion of the utility company's service territory; prohibiting a utility company from imposing any additional fee or charge on a specified customer who refuses installation of a smart meter or requests removal of a smart meter; requiring the Public Service Commission and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to make specified reports regarding smart meters; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel McFadden
Hearing 2/17 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/17/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Birth Registrations - Notice of Placement of Security Freezes [SB-861]
Requiring the administrative head of a specified institution or a designee of the administrative head or the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to provide to the mother, father, or legal guardian of a child a specified notice relating to security freezes under specified circumstances; requiring the Consumer Protection Division to prepare a specified notice explaining how to request a consumer reporting agency to place a security freeze on a file relating to an individual under 16 years of age at the time of the request; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katherine Klausmeier
Hearing 3/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/25/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
State Government - Administrative Procedure Act - Effective Date of Adopted Regulations [SB-854]
Altering the effective dates of specified regulations adopted under the Administrative Procedure Act.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jim Mathias
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 03/31/2015