Public Health
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Health - Prohibited Ingredients in Food [HB-1208]
[Public Health ]
[Food ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Prohibiting a person, beginning on October 1, 2028, from manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in the State food that contains brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, or Red Dye No. 3; and providing certain penalties for violations of the Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Hearing 3/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/20/2025
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Tennessee 114th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 9; Title 14; Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71, relative to medical practices. [HB-1119]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
As introduced, requires the attorney general to report to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives certain information regarding violations of the prohibition against using medical procedures to enable a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex or to treat purported discomfort or distress from discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michele Carringer
P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt. on 02/10/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to utility disconnection protections. [HB-326]
[Energy ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to create winter and summer temperature standards for disconnection of service by retail electric and gas utilities; allow resumption of disconnection only after a 72-hour period during which the temperature standard is exceeded; establish a certificate of need for persons who are at risk if utility service is disconnected that can be provided by a physician, physician assistant, community-based service organization, or faith-based service organization; prohibit disconnection of service on holidays and weekends,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Lisa Willner
To Natural Resources & Energy (h) on 02/07/2025
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North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
Healthcare Workforce Reforms [HB-67]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Health ]
Healthcare Workforce Reforms
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary G. Belk
Signed By Gov. 7/1/2025 on 07/01/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Behavioral Health Crisis Response Grant Program - Funding [HB-1049]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2029 an appropriation of $5,000,000 to the Behavioral Health Crisis Response Grant Program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jessica Feldmark
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed on 04/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
PFAS Chemicals - Civil Actions and Prohibition on Consumer Product Sales [HB-1112]
[Environmental ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
[Manufacturing ]
[Water ]
Altering the time limits for bringing an action for wrongful death or personal injury concerning exposure of a person to PFAS chemicals; and prohibiting a person, on or after July 1, 2026, from manufacturing, selling, or distributing in the State a consumer product that contains PFAS chemicals.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Bailey Hornberger
Hearing Canceled (judiciary) on 03/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access - Workgroups [HB-1066]
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[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Human Services ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Requiring the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access to establish a workgroup on the improvement of health, social, and economic outcomes related to substance use; requiring the workgroup to make recommendations on changes to State laws, policies and practices needed to mitigate the harm related to criminalization of substance use and related to the discharge of patients from substance use treatment programs; and requiring the workgroup to submit a certain report annually.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 763 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Behavioral Health Advisory Council and the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access - Plan to Implement Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Requirements [HB-1083]
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[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring the Behavioral Health Advisory Council and the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access, through its workgroup, to implement Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment requirements; requiring the workgroup to provide recommendations to implement recommendations in a certain Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services State Health Official letter; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health to report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by January 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 687 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Public Health - Maryland Interested Parties Advisory Group - Establishment [HB-1142]
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[Public Health ]
[Community Development ]
[Human Services ]
Establishing the Maryland Interested Parties Advisory Group to ensure adequate access to applicable home- and community-based services in the State; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide certain support to the Advisory Group; and requiring by September 1 each year beginning in 2026, the Advisory Group to report its activities and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 754 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Community-Based Residential Facilities - Licensing Entities - Provision of Licensing Criteria and Single Point of Contact [HB-1136]
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[Community Development ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
Requiring a licensing authority, on request, to provide to an interested party the criteria used by the licensing authority to determine whether to issue a license for or renew a license of a community facility; and requiring a licensing authority to designate a single point of contact to respond to complaints, concerns, or issues regarding a community facility.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samuel I Rosenberg
Hearing Canceled on 03/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System – Integration of 9–8–8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network and Outcome Evaluations [HB-1146]
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[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System to have a State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, rather than a crisis communication center, in each jurisdiction; requiring each State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the System to coordinate with the national 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network to provide supportive counseling, suicide prevention, crisis intervention, referrals to additional resources, and direct dispatch to other services as needed; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 659 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Dorchester County - Well and On-Site Sewage Disposal Activities - Privatization Program [HB-1124]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Public Health ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
Authorizing the Department of the Environment, at the request of the Dorchester County government and the local health department or county agency in Dorchester County that has received a well or on-site sewage disposal system delegation of authority by the Department, to establish a privatization program for the performance of activities associated with the well or on-site sewage disposal system delegation of authority in Dorchester County.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 425 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Health Insurance, Family Planning Services, and Confidentiality of Medical Records - Consumer Protections - Updates [HB-1045]
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[Insurance ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Health ]
Updating references to federal law related to family planning services, grandfathered plans, explanation of benefits, summaries of benefits and coverage, medical loss ratios, catastrophic plans, annual limits for cost sharing, prescription drugs, and rescissions; altering the definitions of "legally protected health care" and "sensitive health services" to include gender-affirming care for purposes of law governing the disclosure of information regarding sensitive health services; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 469 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Public Health - Buprenorphine - Training Grant Program and Workgroup [HB-1131]
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[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Mental Health ]
Establishing the Buprenorphine Training Grant Program to assist counties with offsetting the cost of training paramedics to administer buprenorphine; including the Program as an authorized use of funding from the Opioid Restitution Fund; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of at least $50,000 from the Opioid Restitution Fund for the Program; and requiring the Maryland Office of Overdose Response to convene a workgroup to study access to buprenorphine in the State.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joe Vogel
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 759 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Maryland Department of Health - AHEAD Model Implementation - Electronic Health Care Transactions and Population Health Improvement Fund [HB-1104]
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[Public Health ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Clarifying that electronic health care transactions information may be used to support the participation of the State in the States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model and any successor models; establishing the Population Health Improvement Fund to support the statewide population health targets under the AHEAD Model and any successor models; authorizing the Health Services Cost Review Commission to assess a uniform, broad-based, and reasonable amount in hospital rates to be credited to the Fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Health and Government Operations
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 615 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health - Maryland Helping Everyone Afford Life-Saving Treatments and Health Care (HEALTH) Fund and Income Tax Checkoff [HB-1059]
[Healthcare ]
[Taxes ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Funding ]
Establishing the Helping Everyone Afford Life-Saving Treatments and Health Care (HEALTH) Fund to assist Maryland Medical Assistance Program enrollees and insured individuals with heath care costs associated with services and benefits provided under State law that are subject to federal restrictions; requiring certain individuals to provide evidence of need for certain health care assistance; requiring the Comptroller to include a checkoff on individual income tax return forms for voluntary contributions to the Fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Courtney Watson
Hearing Canceled (health And Government Operations) on 02/26/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund - Funding [HB-1115]
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[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Altering the fiscal years during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill a certain appropriation to the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund; altering the funding source of the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund to include money from the Cigarette Restitution Fund; and altering uses of the Cigarette Restitution Fund to include the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samuel I Rosenberg
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/24/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Public Health - Health Equity Dashboard [HB-1100]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Human Services ]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in collaboration with the Commission on Health Equity, to develop a clear and easy-to-understand graphic data dashboard that includes age-adjusted health disparity data disaggregated by race, ethnicity, and gender; and requiring the Department to update the data dashboard on a quarterly basis, as determined by data availability.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 663 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Health - Medetomidine and Xylazine Consumer Protection Act [HB-1109]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
Prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, or exposing for sale a medetomidine product or a xylazine product unless the purchaser provides to the retailer certain proof; prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, or exposing for sale a medetomidine product or a xylazine product to an individual under the age of 21 years; requiring a retailer that prepares, distributes, sells, or exposes for sale a medetomidine product or a xylazine product to maintain certain records; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jesse Tyler Pippy
Hearing Canceled on 03/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Maryland Collaborative to Improve Children's Oral Health Through School-Based Programs - Establishment [HB-1143]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Education ]
Establishing the Maryland Collaborative to Improve Children's Oral Health Through School-Based Programs to study and make recommendations on ways to improve school-based dental programs; and requiring the Collaborative to submit an interim report by December 1, 2025, and a final report on its findings and recommendations by October 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 753 on 05/20/2025