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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Labor and Employment - Health Care Facilities - Workplace Safety (Safe Care Act) [SB-943]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Health ]
[Public Safety ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
Requiring State residential centers and State-operated hospitals to develop a workplace safety plan; establishing certain requirements for a certain workplace safety plan; requiring that certain training address certain risks and include certain instruction on certain matters; requiring certain State residential centers and State-operated hospitals to collaborate with a certain committee for certain purposes; requiring that certain procedures include certain other procedures; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Antonio Hayes
Referred Economic Matters on 03/16/2020
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Department of General Services - State Innovation Program and Fund - Establishment [SB-984]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Economic Development ]
Establishing the State Innovation Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; specifying the purpose, use, and contents of the Fund; requiring the Secretary of General Services to administer the Fund; requiring the Secretary to establish the State Innovation Program in accordance with certain requirements; requiring certain information regarding the Program to be posted on a certain website; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Hearing Canceled on 02/24/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Department of General Services - State Innovation Program and Fund - Establishment [SB-984]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Economic Development ]
Establishing the State Innovation Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; specifying the purpose, use, and contents of the Fund; requiring the Secretary of General Services to administer the Fund; requiring the Secretary to establish the State Innovation Program in accordance with certain requirements; requiring certain information regarding the Program to be posted on a certain website; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Hearing Canceled on 02/24/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Maryland Online Consumer Protection Act [SB-957]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Requiring certain businesses that collect a consumer's personal information to provide certain clear and conspicuous notices to the consumer at or before the point of collection; authorizing a consumer to submit a certain request for information to a certain business that collects the consumer's personal information; requiring a certain business to comply with a certain request for information in a certain manner and within 45 days after receiving a verifiable consumer request; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
Hearing 2/19 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Maryland Online Consumer Protection Act [SB-957]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Requiring certain businesses that collect a consumer's personal information to provide certain clear and conspicuous notices to the consumer at or before the point of collection; authorizing a consumer to submit a certain request for information to a certain business that collects the consumer's personal information; requiring a certain business to comply with a certain request for information in a certain manner and within 45 days after receiving a verifiable consumer request; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
Hearing 2/19 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Maryland Department of Health - Residential Service Agencies - Training Requirements [SB-897]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
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 list of training programs to each residential agency; requiring an individual employed as a residential service agency's direct care or supervisory staff to complete certain training; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Hester
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/07/2020
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Health Facilities - Hospitals - Medical Debt Protection [SB-873]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Consumer Protection ]
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: Sen. Brian Feldman
Unfavorable Report By Finance; Withdrawn on 03/06/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Financial Institutions - Consumer Protection - Money Transmissions and Virtual Currencies [SB-754]
[Finance ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
Adding certain sources of revenue required to be credited to the Nondepository Special Fund; requiring the Commissioner of Financial Regulation to pay certain fines and penalties into the General Fund of the State; altering certain provisions on the regulation of money transmission by the Commissioner; authorizing the Commissioner to identify certain activities as money transmission for certain purposes; establishing licensing requirements for certain money transmission locations; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Third Reading Passed (46-0) on 03/13/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
State Board of Physicians - Genetic Counselors - Licensing [SB-763]
[Healthcare ]
Requiring the State Board of Physicians to license genetic counselors; providing that provisions of the Act do not limit the right of certain individuals to practice certain occupations; establishing the Genetic Counseling Advisory Committee within the Board; requiring individuals, on or after October 1, 2022, to be licensed by the Board as genetic counselors before practicing genetic counseling in the State except under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Third Reading Passed (46-0) on 03/13/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Medical Cannabis - Dispensary Grower-Processor License [SB-953]
[Cannabis ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
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: Sen. Susan Lee
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/07/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Public Health - Non-Controlled Dangerous Substance Prescription Record System Program [SB-752]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Data Privacy ]
Establishing the NCDS Prescription Record System Program under the Maryland Health Care Commission; providing the purpose of the Program is to improve patient safety and reduce health care costs by allowing a prescriber and prescriber delegate to access NCDS prescription drug history of patients; requiring the Commission to establish standards for selecting a certain prescription information system and any other means for the transmission of certain information within the Program; requiring that certain standards include certain requirements; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Hearing Canceled on 02/21/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Electronic Smoking Devices - Regulation and Taxation [SB-876]
[Taxes ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
Limiting the in-person sales or distributions of vaping liquid by electronic smoking devices retailers and vape shop vendors to age-restricted areas; requiring electronic smoking devices retail licensees and vape shop vendors selling vaping liquid to post a certain sign in a certain manner; requiring a certain licensee who sells electronic smoking devices through a website to use a certain third-party age verification service for a certain purpose; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Feldman
Hearing Canceled (finance) on 03/11/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Electronic Smoking Devices - Regulation and Taxation [SB-876]
[Taxes ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
Limiting the in-person sales or distributions of vaping liquid by electronic smoking devices retailers and vape shop vendors to age-restricted areas; requiring electronic smoking devices retail licensees and vape shop vendors selling vaping liquid to post a certain sign in a certain manner; requiring a certain licensee who sells electronic smoking devices through a website to use a certain third-party age verification service for a certain purpose; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Feldman
Hearing Canceled (finance) on 03/11/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Procurement and Correctional Facilities - Employment Opportunities for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals [SB-858]
[Crime ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Economic Development ]
[Law Enforcement ]
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: Sen. Charles Sydnor
Hearing 2/26 At 12:00 P.m. (judicial Proceedings) on 02/06/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Health Care Facilities - Assisted Living Programs - Regulations, Staffing, and Training [SB-969]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Senior Citizens ]
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: Sen. Mary Washington
Unfavorable Report By Finance; Withdrawn on 03/05/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Hospitals - Financial Assistance Policies and Bill Collections [SB-875]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Poverty ]
[Public Health ]
Increasing the family income threshold to between 200% and 500% of the federal poverty level at which a hospital's financial assistance policy must provide free medically necessary care to patients; requiring that a certain financial assistance policy include a certain payment plan and a certain mechanism for a patient to request a certain reconsideration; requiring that a certain financial assistance policy provide presumptive eligibility for certain care to certain patients; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Feldman
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/07/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Information Technology - Communications Lines - Installation [SB-790]
[Telecommunications ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Small Business ]
[Economic Development ]
Providing that certain provisions of law governing resource sharing do not apply to any private industry entities that have separate legal rights of access under State or local law to install communications lines and associated facilities in the State rights-of-way; and requiring the Department of Information Technology to waive certain fees for all last mile broadband telecommunications projects in unserved areas.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adelaide Eckardt
Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Public Health - Solemn Covenant of the States to Award Prizes for Curing Diseases - Compact [SB-910]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
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, and powers and duties of the management committee; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Hearing Canceled (education, Health, And Environmental Affairs) on 02/06/2020
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Election Law - Disclosure of Qualifying Paid Digital Communications - Revisions [SB-781]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Media and Advertising ]
Repealing a requirement that an online platform maintain and make available to the State Board of Elections on request certain records regarding certain qualifying paid digital communications that a purchaser requests to disseminate through the online platform; and requiring an online platform to maintain and make available to the State Board on request, within 48 hours after the qualifying paid digital communication is first disseminated on the online platform and for at least 1 year after the general election, certain records; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Craig Zucker
Hearing 2/20 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Public Information Act - Remote Access, Fee Complaints, Fee Waivers, and Inspection of Judicial Records (Open Government, Better Government Act) [SB-758]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Elections ]
[Ethics ]
Establishing the intent of the General Assembly that each official custodian adopt a policy to use the Internet and other technological advancements to expand remote access to public records and increase the transparency of government; requiring the Public Information Act Compliance Board to receive, review, and resolve certain complaints alleging that a custodian unreasonably failed to waive a fee under certain circumstances; altering the minimum fee charged under which the Board has authority to review a complaint from $350 to $200; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Hearing 2/18 At 12:00 P.m. (judicial Proceedings) on 02/06/2020