You have voted HCR-34: Requesting The Executive Office Of Aging To Conduct A Study On The Adequacy Of Elder Care On Molokai And Lanai, And In East Maui..
Income Tax - Credit for Long-Term Care Premiums [HB-1185]
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[Insurance ]
[Healthcare ]
[Senior Citizens ]
Altering a limitation on claiming the income tax credit for eligible long-term care insurance premiums for more than 1 year with respect to the same insured individual; altering the amount of the credit from a one-time $500 credit to a maximum of $250 for a taxable year beginning after December 31, 2023, but before January 1, 2026, and a maximum of $500 for a taxable year beginning after December 31, 2025; applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023; etc.
HB-1185: Income Tax - Credit for Long-Term Care Premiums
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank M Conaway
Hearing 3/02 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2023
SB-681: Relating to the applicability of certain laws regarding the occupational licensing of individuals with criminal convictions to the licensing of certain long-term health care facility personnel.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathan Johnson
Signed By The Governor on 06/18/2023
You have voted SB-681: Relating to the applicability of certain laws regarding the occupational licensing of individuals with criminal convictions to the licensing of certain long-term health care facility personnel..
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Department of Aging - Long-Term Care and Dementia Care Navigation Programs [HB-614]
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[Senior Citizens ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
Requiring the Department of Aging to oversee long-term care and train the staff of long-term care and dementia care navigation programs; requiring each area agency to establish a long-term care and dementia care navigation program; and requiring the Department to submit a report by October 1, 2024, and each year thereafter, to the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House, and certain committees of the General Assembly about the services provided by the program and to publish the report on its website.
HB-614: Department of Aging - Long-Term Care and Dementia Care Navigation Programs
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 668 on 05/16/2023
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Relating To Nursing Facilities. [HB-1369]
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[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Taxes ]
[Funding ]
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[Senior Citizens ]
Repeals the sunset dates of Act 156, SLH 2012, and Act 124, SLH 2014, to make the nursing facility sustainability program permanent and permanently exempt the nursing sustainability program special fund from the central service and administrative expenses assessments. Makes various amendments to the nursing facility sustainability program and nursing facility sustainability special fund. Repeals the nursing facility tax. Appropriates funds out of the nursing facility sustainability program special fund. (CD1)
HB-1369: Relating To Nursing Facilities.
Sponsored by: Rep. Della au Belatti
Act 109, On 06/22/2023 (gov. Msg. No. 1210). on 06/22/2023
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Department of Aging - Long-Term Care and Dementia Care Navigation Programs [SB-228]
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[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
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Requiring the Department of Aging to oversee and train the staff of long-term care and dementia care navigation programs; requiring each area agency to develop a long-term care and dementia care navigation program that consists of new or existing services; requiring the Department to submit a report, by October 1, 2024, and each year thereafter, to the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House, and certain committees on the services provided; and requiring the Department to publish the report on its website.
SB-228: Department of Aging - Long-Term Care and Dementia Care Navigation Programs
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence K. Lam
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 667 on 05/16/2023
Income Tax - Credit for Long-Term Care Premiums (Long-Term Care Relief Act of 2023) [HB-160]
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[Senior Citizens ]
Altering eligibility for and the maximum amount of a credit against the State income tax for certain long-term care insurance premiums paid by a taxpayer with a Maryland adjusted gross income of less than $250,000 for long-term care insurance purchased before January 1, 2005; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2022.
HB-160: Income Tax - Credit for Long-Term Care Premiums (Long-Term Care Relief Act of 2023)
Sponsored by: Rep. Robbyn Lewis
Hearing 2/02 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/18/2023
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Long-term services and supports screening; screening after admission. [SB-1457]
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[Senior Citizens ]
[Public Health ]
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Long-term services and supports screening; screening after admission; coverage of institutional long-term services and supports. Provides that if an individual is admitted to a skilled nursing facility for skilled nursing services and such individual was not screened but is subsequently determined to have been required to be screened prior to admission to the skilled nursing facility, then the screening may be conducted after admission. Under the bill, coverage of institutional long-term services and supports by the Commonwealth for such patients
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SB-1457: Long-term services and supports screening; screening after admission.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lynwood W. Lewis
Governor: Approved By Governor-chapter 185 (effective 7/1/23) on 03/22/2023
Income Tax - Credit for Long-Term Care Premiums (Long-Term Care Relief Act of 2023) [SB-137]
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[Senior Citizens ]
Altering eligibility for and the maximum amount of a credit against the State income tax for certain long-term care insurance premiums paid by a taxpayer with a Maryland adjusted gross income of less than $250,000 for long-term care insurance purchased before January 1, 2005; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2022.
SB-137: Income Tax - Credit for Long-Term Care Premiums (Long-Term Care Relief Act of 2023)
Sponsored by: Sen. Katherine Ann Klausmeier
Hearing 1/25 At 2:00 P.m. on 01/17/2023
Long-term care insurance; rate increases, notice requirements. [HB-2215]
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Long-term care insurance; rate increases; notice requirements. Requires an insurer of long-term care insurance policies to issue a written notice to each policyholder of the insurer's filing for a rate increase with the State Corporation Commission within 60 days of making such filing. Additionally, the bill requires the insurer to (i) if the Commission denies the rate increase, issue a written notice to each policyholder of the Commission's final decision to deny the rate increase or (ii) if the Commission approves the rate increase, issue a written
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HB-2215: Long-term care insurance; rate increases, notice requirements.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy K.L. Tran
Left In Commerce And Energy on 02/07/2023
Public Health - Healthy Maryland Program - Establishment [HB-25]
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[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Establishing the Healthy Maryland Program as a public corporation and a unit of State government to provide comprehensive universal single-payer health care services for residents of the State by January 1, 2025; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to Healthy Maryland, including provisions regarding eligibility, participation by and payments to health care providers, benefits, payroll premiums, funding, and collective negotiations with health care providers; etc.
HB-25: Public Health - Healthy Maryland Program - Establishment
Sponsored by: Rep. Gabriel Acevero
Hearing Canceled on 03/16/2023
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Long-term services and supports screening; screening after admission. [HB-1681]
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[Senior Citizens ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
Long-term services and supports screening; screening after admission; coverage of institutional long-term services and supports. Provides that if an individual is admitted to a skilled nursing facility for skilled nursing services and such individual was not screened but is subsequently determined to have been required to be screened prior to admission to the skilled nursing facility, then the screening may be conducted after admission. Under the bill, coverage of institutional long-term services and supports by the Commonwealth for such patients
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HB-1681: Long-term services and supports screening; screening after admission.
Sponsored by: Rep. Roxann L. Robinson
Governor: Approved By Governor-chapter 184 (effective 7/1/23) on 03/22/2023
Nursing homes; standards of care, administrative sanctions. [HB-1564]
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Nursing home standards of care; administrative sanctions; Long-Term Care Services Fund established. Requires regulations establishing the staffing and care standards in nursing homes to require a minimum number of hours of direct care services to each resident per 24-hour period, which minimum increases in specified phases from 3.5 hours to 4.1 hours. The bill gives the Commissioner of Health the power to impose administrative sanctions on nursing homes and directs the Board of Health to promulgate regulations related to the criteria and procedures
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HB-1564: Nursing homes; standards of care, administrative sanctions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian E. Watts
Left In Health, Welfare And Institutions on 02/07/2023
Long-term care insurance; premium rate increases. [SB-828]
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[Senior Citizens ]
Long-term care insurance; premium rate increases. Prohibits the State Corporation Commission from approving any long-term care insurance annual premium rate increase or premium rate schedule increase that exceeds six percent of the current rate or current rate schedule.
SB-828: Long-term care insurance; premium rate increases.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lionell Spruill
Passed By Indefinitely In Commerce And Labor With Letter (15-y 0-n) on 01/16/2023