Public Health - Advance Directives - Witness Requirements, Advance Directives Services, and Fund [HB-188]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Providing that a witness is not required for an electronic advance directive if the declarant's identity has been authenticated in accordance with specified replacement guidelines under specified circumstances; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to issue a request for proposals from electronic advance directives services for a specified purpose; clarifying that the Department may contract with multiple electronic advance directives services; repealing a specified requirement; etc.
HB-188: Public Health - Advance Directives - Witness Requirements, Advance Directives Services, and Fund
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 667 on 05/25/2017
Hospitals - Substance Use Treatment Demonstration Program - Requirements [HB-189]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
Authorizing up to five hospitals in the State to participate in a substance use treatment demonstration program; providing that the purpose of the demonstration program is to identify best practices to identify patients potentially in need of treatment, screen patients, and refer patients in need of substance use treatment to specified services; requiring each participating hospital to operate an inpatient and outpatient substance use treatment program or ensure that specified treatment services are made available; etc.
HB-189: Hospitals - Substance Use Treatment Demonstration Program - Requirements
Sponsored by: Rep. Kumar Barve
Hearing 2/28 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/28/2017
Optometrists and Physicians - Prescriptions for Lenses - Expiration Dates [HB-191]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Healthcare ]
Requiring that licensed optometrists and licensed physicians ensure that prescriptions for specified lenses contain an expiration date of not more than 24 months from the dates the patients are first examined; requiring that specified optometrists and specified physicians who provide prescriptions with less than a 24-month expiration enter the reason in the patient's medical record and provide the patient with a written and an oral explanation; and applying the Act.
HB-191: Optometrists and Physicians - Prescriptions for Lenses - Expiration Dates
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations; Withdrawn on 02/28/2017
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Renaming [HB-180]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
Renaming the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to be the Maryland Department of Health; renaming the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to be the Secretary of Health; providing that the Maryland Department of Health is the successor of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; providing that specified names and titles of a specified unit and officials in laws and other documents mean the names and titles of the successor unit and officials; etc.
HB-180: Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Renaming
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Hearing 3/23 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/23/2018
Mammography Centers - Dense Breast Tissue - Notification of Breast Cancer Screening Options [HB-190]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Altering the notice that specified mammography centers are required to include in a specified screening results letter; and requiring the notice to state that together, a patient and the patient's physician can decide whether additional screening options might be right for the patient.
HB-190: Mammography Centers - Dense Breast Tissue - Notification of Breast Cancer Screening Options
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Lewis Young
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 220 on 04/18/2017
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Board of Review - Repeal [HB-127]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
Repealing provisions of law relating to the Board of Review of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; repealing provisions of law that require the Board of Review to make specified recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, advise the Secretary on specified matters, hear and determine specified appeals, and report at specified intervals to the Secretary; providing that a specified petitioner may not be charged a fee for specified costs under specified circumstances; etc.
HB-127: Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Board of Review - Repeal
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 103 on 04/11/2017
Public Health - Use of Medical Oxygen in Residential Dwellings - Smoking and Open Flame Restrictions [SB-175]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Housing ]
Prohibiting an individual from lighting or smoking specified matters or substances that contain tobacco in a room of a residential dwelling in which medical oxygen is being used and within a specified number of feet of a specified room of a specified residential dwelling; prohibiting an individual from having an open flame in a room of a residential dwelling in which medical oxygen is being used and within a specified number of feet of a specified room of a specified residential dwelling; etc.
SB-175: Public Health - Use of Medical Oxygen in Residential Dwellings - Smoking and Open Flame Restrictions
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Feldman
Unfavorable Report By Finance on 02/23/2017
Health - Cost of Emergency Room Visits to Treat Dental Conditions and Coverage of Dental Services Under Medicaid - Study [SB-169]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
Authorizing the Maryland Dental Action Coalition to conduct a study to determine the annual cost of emergency room visits to treat dental conditions of specified adults and whether it is advisable to expand benefits for dental services for specified adults under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program; authorizing the Coalition to report to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the General Assembly the findings of the study by December 1, 2017 and distribute the report to specified stakeholders; etc.
SB-169: Health - Cost of Emergency Room Visits to Treat Dental Conditions and Coverage of Dental Services Under Medicaid - Study
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Middleton
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 721 on 05/25/2017
Public Health - Required Temperatures for Sale of Crab Meat - Repeal [SB-128]
[Public Health ]
[Food ]
Repealing a specified provision of law that prohibits a person from keeping for sale any unfrozen crab meat, any frozen crab meat, or any pasteurized crab meat at temperatures that exceed specified maximum temperatures.
SB-128: Public Health - Required Temperatures for Sale of Crab Meat - Repeal
Sponsored by: Sen. Bryan Simonaire
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 53 on 04/11/2017
Public Health - Tobacco Control Funding [SB-113]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Requiring $21,000,000 in funding for fiscal year 2018 and each fiscal year thereafter for activities aimed at reducing tobacco use in Maryland.
SB-113: Public Health - Tobacco Control Funding
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel McFadden
Hearing 2/01 At 2:00 P.m. on 02/01/2017
Public Health - Expedited Partner Therapy - Trichomoniasis and Pharmacist Dispensing [SB-110]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
Authorizing, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a licensed pharmacist to prescribe, dispense or otherwise provide antibiotic therapy to a specified partner of a patient diagnosed with trichomoniasis without making a personal physical assessment.
SB-110: Public Health - Expedited Partner Therapy - Trichomoniasis and Pharmacist Dispensing
Sponsored by: Sen. Joan Conway
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 822 on 05/27/2017
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Renaming [SB-82]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
Renaming the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to be the Maryland Department of Health; renaming the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to be the Secretary of Health; providing that the Maryland Department of Health is the successor of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; providing that specified names and titles of a specified unit and officials in laws and other documents mean the names and titles of the successor unit and officials; etc.
SB-82: Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Renaming
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Middleton
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 214 on 04/18/2017
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Updating Advisory Boards and Councils [SB-38]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Establishing a State Advisory Council on Health and Wellness to address chronic disease in the State by repealing and consolidating three existing State advisory councils that address physical fitness, arthritis, and heart disease and stroke; altering the membership of the State Child Fatality Review Team to include specified representatives; declaring the intent of the General Assembly; etc.
SB-38: Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Updating Advisory Boards and Councils
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 40 on 04/11/2017
SB-849: As enacted, specifies that the practice of veterinary medicine does not include massage therapy to animals, which means the manipulation of the soft tissues of the animal body with the intention of positively affecting the health and well-being of the animal. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
Sponsored by: Sen. Kerry Roberts
Pub. Ch. 274 on 05/11/2017
You have voted SB-849: As enacted, specifies that the practice of veterinary medicine does not include massage therapy to animals, which means the manipulation of the soft tissues of the animal body with the intention of positively affecting the health and well-being of the animal. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71..
HB-931: As enacted, repeals obsolete miscellaneous sanitary regulations for workshops, which includes any house, room, or place when used for the purpose of carrying on any process of making or altering, for sale or for wages, any coats, vests, trousers, knee pants, overalls, cloaks, shirts, waists, purses, feathers, artificial flowers, or cigars, or any wearing apparel of any kind whatsoever, intended for sale. - Repeals l TCA Title 68, Chapter 15, Part 1.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tim Rudd
Pub. Ch. 253 on 05/11/2017
You have voted HB-931: As enacted, repeals obsolete miscellaneous sanitary regulations for workshops, which includes any house, room, or place when used for the purpose of carrying on any process of making or altering, for sale or for wages, any coats, vests, trousers, knee pants, overalls, cloaks, shirts, waists, purses, feathers, artificial flowers, or cigars, or any wearing apparel of any kind whatsoever, intended for sale. - Repeals l TCA Title 68, Chapter 15, Part 1..
HB-770: As enacted, authorizes, if approved by the department of health, any nongovernmental organization, including an organization that promotes scientifically proven ways of mitigating health risks associated with drug use and other high-risk behaviors, to establish and operate a needle and hypodermic syringe exchange program. - Amends TCA Title 68.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Williams
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 413 on 05/23/2017
You have voted HB-770: As enacted, authorizes, if approved by the department of health, any nongovernmental organization, including an organization that promotes scientifically proven ways of mitigating health risks associated with drug use and other high-risk behaviors, to establish and operate a needle and hypodermic syringe exchange program. - Amends TCA Title 68..
SB-806: As enacted, authorizes, if approved by the department of health, any nongovernmental organization, including an organization that promotes scientifically proven ways of mitigating health risks associated with drug use and other high-risk behaviors, to establish and operate a needle and hypodermic syringe exchange program. - Amends TCA Title 68.
Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Briggs
Pub. Ch. 413 on 05/23/2017
You have voted SB-806: As enacted, authorizes, if approved by the department of health, any nongovernmental organization, including an organization that promotes scientifically proven ways of mitigating health risks associated with drug use and other high-risk behaviors, to establish and operate a needle and hypodermic syringe exchange program. - Amends TCA Title 68..
SB-615: As enacted, repeals obsolete miscellaneous sanitary regulations for workshops, which includes any house, room, or place when used for the purpose of carrying on any process of making or altering, for sale or for wages, any coats, vests, trousers, knee pants, overalls, cloaks, shirts, waists, purses, feathers, artificial flowers, or cigars, or any wearing apparel of any kind whatsoever, intended for sale. - Repeals l TCA Title 68, Chapter 15, Part 1.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bo Watson
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 253 on 05/11/2017
You have voted SB-615: As enacted, repeals obsolete miscellaneous sanitary regulations for workshops, which includes any house, room, or place when used for the purpose of carrying on any process of making or altering, for sale or for wages, any coats, vests, trousers, knee pants, overalls, cloaks, shirts, waists, purses, feathers, artificial flowers, or cigars, or any wearing apparel of any kind whatsoever, intended for sale. - Repeals l TCA Title 68, Chapter 15, Part 1..
HB-537: As enacted, specifies that the practice of veterinary medicine does not include massage therapy to animals, which means the manipulation of the soft tissues of the animal body with the intention of positively affecting the health and well-being of the animal. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
Sponsored by: Rep. Darren Jernigan
Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 274 on 05/11/2017
You have voted HB-537: As enacted, specifies that the practice of veterinary medicine does not include massage therapy to animals, which means the manipulation of the soft tissues of the animal body with the intention of positively affecting the health and well-being of the animal. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71..