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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
21st–Century Economy Fairness Act [SB-1001]
Requiring the Comptroller to distribute the sales and use tax revenue on the sale or use of certain digital products to The Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund; defining "digital product" as one that is obtained electronically by the buyer or delivered by certain means; applying the sales and use tax to a sale or use of certain digital products; providing that the retail sale of a certain digital code or digital product shall be presumed to be made in the state in which a certain customer tax address is located; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Favorable With Amendments {999231/1 Adopted on 03/14/2020
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Election Law - Voter Registration List Maintenance - Reporting (Voter Registration Security Act) [HB-1244]
Requiring each local board of elections to report certain information to the State Board of Elections on or before January 15 each year regarding certain voters who are placed into inactive status and certain voters who are removed from the statewide voter registration list; requiring the State Board to compile and summarize the data reported by the local boards in a report and publish the report on the State Board's website on or before February 1 each year; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dan Cox
Unfavorable Report By Ways And Means; Withdrawn on 02/28/2020
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Consumer Protection - Automatic Recurring Payments [HB-1156]
Requiring certain merchants that enroll consumers in certain automatic recurring payments for certain goods or services provided or sold over the Internet to include a link to a web page that allows a consumer to cancel the contract; requiring certain merchants that enroll consumers in certain automatic recurring payments for certain goods or services provided or sold over the Internet, by mail, or over the telephone to provide a consumer a certain form and present recurring automatic payment terms in a clear and conspicuous manner; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
Unfavorable Report By Economic Matters on 03/12/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Medical Cannabis - Dispensary Grower-Processor License [HB-1317]
Requiring the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission to license medical cannabis dispensary grower-processors under certain circumstances; requiring an applicant to meet certain conditions to be licensed as a dispensary grower-processor; providing that an applicant for a dispensary grower-processor license may not have received certain disciplinary action from the Commission or have failed to meet certain deadlines; requiring the Commission to establish a certain application review process; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nick Mosby
Hearing 2/19 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2020
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Cannabis - Legalization, Taxation, and Regulation [HB-1400]
Substituting the term "cannabis" for the term "marijuana" in certain provisions of law; altering a certain quantity threshold and establishing a certain age limit applicable to a certain civil offense of use or possession of cannabis; establishing an exception to the existing prohibition on obtaining or attempting to obtain a controlled dangerous substance or procuring or attempting to procure the administration of a controlled dangerous substance under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Maggie McIntosh
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. (judiciary) on 02/10/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Election Law - Postelection Tabulation Audits - Risk-Limiting Audits [HB-1172]
Requiring that the State Board of Elections conduct a certain automated software audit in collaboration with the local boards of elections; requiring the State Board, in collaboration with the local boards, to conduct a certain risk-limiting audit after each statewide election; repealing a requirement that the State Board conduct a certain manual audit after each statewide general election; repealing the authority of the State Board to conduct a certain manual audit after each statewide primary election; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2020
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Procurement and Correctional Facilities - Employment Opportunities for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals [HB-1524]
Requiring, beginning on January 1, 2021, certain invitations to bid and certain requests for proposals to require bidders and offerors to provide certain documentation; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and county departments of corrections to give a preference to certain bidders and offerors based on the number of formerly incarcerated individuals the bidder or offeror employs; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Moon
Hearing 3/10 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2020
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Hospitals - Financial Assistance Policies and Bill Collections [HB-1420]
Increasing the family income threshold at which a hospital's financial assistance policy must provide free and reduced cost medically necessary care to patients; requiring that a certain financial assistance policy include a certain payment plan, available to uninsured patients with family income between 200% and 500% of the federal poverty level and a certain mechanism for a patient to request a reconsideration; requiring that a certain financial assistance policy provide presumptive eligibility for certain care; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samuel Rosenberg
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 470 on 05/08/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Motor Vehicle Liability Insurance - Replacement Parts for Damaged Motor Vehicles [HB-1418]
Requiring an insurer that issues or delivers in the State a policy of motor vehicle liability insurance that provides coverage for the repair of physical damage to the insured motor vehicle to provide in the policy that the insured has the option of requiring repairs to be made to the insured motor vehicle using genuine crash parts, certified aftermarket crash parts, or aftermarket crash parts; authorizing the insured to consent in a certain manner to the use of certain aftermarket crash parts; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Ann Lisanti
Unfavorable Report By Economic Matters; Withdrawn on 03/14/2020
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Health Insurance - Requirements for Establishing Step Therapy Protocol and Requesting Exceptions [HB-1359]
Repealing certain prohibitions on certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations regarding the imposition of step therapy or fail-first protocols; requiring a step therapy protocol to be established by using certain criteria based on certain guidelines; requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, or health maintenance organizations to establish a certain process for requesting an exception step therapy protocol; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations; Withdrawn on 03/13/2020
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Maryland Department of Health - Residential Service Agencies - Training Requirements [HB-1168]
Requiring each residential service agency to ensure that certain individuals receive certain training relating to dementia; requiring each residential service agency to ensure that individuals providing certain training have certain experience and have completed certain training; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide a certain list of training programs to each residential service agency; requiring an individual employed as a residential service agency's direct care or supervisory staff to complete certain training; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin Holmes
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2020
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Voice Over Internet Protocol - Robocalls - Customer Information [HB-1278]
Requiring a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service provider to obtain certain information from a person making certain robocalls through the VoIP service provider; providing that a person who willfully violates certain provisions is subject to a civil penalty of $500 for each robocall made; defining certain terms; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Hill
Hearing 3/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2020
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State Government – Protection of Personally Identifiable Information – Public Institutions of Higher Education [HB-1122]
Excluding public institutions of higher education from certain provisions of law governing protection of information by government agencies; requiring public institutions of higher education to review and designate certain systems as systems of record based on certain criteria and to develop and adopt a certain privacy governance program to govern each system of record; requiring public institutions of higher education to develop and adopt a certain information security and risk management program for certain purposes; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Shane Pendergrass
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 429 on 05/08/2020
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Health Facilities - Hospitals - Medical Debt Protection [HB-1081]
Requiring a hospital to annually submit a report to the Health Services Cost Review Commission on the total number of patients by race or ethnicity, gender, and zip code against whom the hospital has filed an action to collect a debt, or to whom the hospital has and has not reported or classified a bad debt, and the total amount of costs owed but not collected; requiring that a certain policy provide a mechanism to a patient to modify a payment plan and prohibit the hospital from collecting a certain debt for a certain patient; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Diana Fennell
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations; Withdrawn on 03/09/2020
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Health Care Facilities – Assisted Living Programs – Regulations, Staffing, and Training [HB-1063]
Requiring that certain regulations adopted by the Maryland Department of Health relating to assisted living programs include requiring an assisted living program to complete a certain assessment tool within a certain period of time and requiring a certain program manager to invite certain individuals to participate in certain resident assessments; requiring that certain assisted living programs have certain staff-to-resident ratios at certain assisted living program facilities under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Carol Krimm
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations; Withdrawn on 03/05/2020
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County Boards of Education - Payment Data - Disclosures [HB-1092]
Requiring the county boards of education of Montgomery County, Howard County, Baltimore County, Prince George's County, and Anne Arundel County to develop and operate searchable websites containing information on the identities of individuals who receive aggregate payments from the boards of at least $25,000; and specifying how the websites present information.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robin Grammer
Hearing 2/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/11/2020
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Public Health - Solemn Covenant of the States to Award Prizes for Curing Diseases - Compact [HB-1051]
Entering into the Solemn Covenant of the States to Award Prizes for Curing Diseases Compact; establishing the Solemn Covenant of States Commission to administer the Compact; providing for the composition, voting procedures, operation, and powers and duties of the Commission; establishing certain procedures for the making of rules by the Commission; authorizing the Commission to establish a management committee; providing for the composition, operation, powers and duties of the management committee; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Johnson
Hearing 3/02 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/14/2020
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Baltimore County Circuit Court - Criminal Proceedings Court Webcast - Pilot Program [HB-1093]
Establishing for certain criminal proceedings in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County a certain exception to the prohibition against recording or broadcasting a criminal matter; requiring a certain presiding judge to ensure that a certain court webcast does not include certain matters; requiring the Circuit Court for Baltimore County to provide a certain court webcast in a certain manner in certain criminal proceedings; prohibiting a person from disseminating certain portions of a court webcast; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robin Grammer
Unfavorable Report By Judiciary; Withdrawn on 02/17/2020
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Public Health - Substance-Related Disorder Services (Maryland Patient Protection and Treatment Ethics Act) [HB-1071]
Requiring any marketing or advertising materials published or provided by a behavioral health program to provide certain information about treatment services provided by the behavioral health program; prohibiting a health care practitioner from knowingly and willfully making certain statements or providing certain information; prohibiting a health care practitioner from knowingly making false or misleading statements; requiring a certain behavioral health program to include a certain statement in any advertising; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Lewis Young
Hearing 2/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2020
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Public Health - Substance-Related Disorder Services (Maryland Patient Protection and Treatment Ethics Act) [HB-1071]
Requiring any marketing or advertising materials published or provided by a behavioral health program to provide certain information about treatment services provided by the behavioral health program; prohibiting a health care practitioner from knowingly and willfully making certain statements or providing certain information; prohibiting a health care practitioner from knowingly making false or misleading statements; requiring a certain behavioral health program to include a certain statement in any advertising; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Lewis Young
Hearing 2/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2020