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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Mental Health - Involuntary Admission - Inmates in Correctional Facilities [SB-402]
Altering the circumstances under which a facility operated by the Maryland Department of Health is required to receive and evaluate an inmate in a correctional facility who has been certified for involuntary admission; authorizing a court, if the Department fails to admit an inmate to a designated State facility within 8 days of a certain notification, to impose any sanction reasonably designed to compel compliance with the Act; requiring a certain report to be submitted yearly to certain legislative committees by October 31; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 03/28/2019
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Public Behavioral Health System - Implementation Plans to Improve Efficiency, Accountability, and Outcomes - Workgroup [HB-941]
Requiring the Secretary of Health to convene a stakeholder workgroup to develop certain implementation plans to improve efficiency, accountability, and outcomes of certain specialty behavioral health services; requiring the workgroup to include certain representatives; requiring that certain implementation plans include certain recommendations for a certain timeline and certain necessary steps to achieve certain outcomes; requiring the Secretary of Health to submit certain reports on or before certain dates; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samuel Rosenberg
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations; Withdrawn on 03/15/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Health - Prescription Drug Affordability Board [HB-768]
Establishing the Prescription Drug Affordability Board to protect State residents and certain stakeholders from the high costs of prescription drug products; requiring the Board to collect data and identify prescription drug products that may cause affordability challenges; authorizing the Board to meet in closed session when discussing trade secrets; authorizing the Board to set an upper payment limit for certain drug products; creating a Stakeholder Council to assist the Board with certain reporting requirements; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kumar Barve
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 692 on 05/25/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Mental Health - Involuntary Admission - Inmates in Correctional Facilities [HB-306]
Repealing a certain provision of law to allow an application for involuntary admission to a facility of an inmate in certain institutions to be made by any person who has a legitimate interest in the welfare of the individual; altering the circumstances under which a facility operated by the Maryland Department of Health is required to receive and evaluate an inmate in a correctional facility who has been certified for involuntary admission; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Dumais
Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/29/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Maryland Department of Health - Services for Individuals With Developmental Disabilities - Fee-for-Service Payment Pilot Program [HB-1420]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish a fee-for-service payment pilot program; authorizing providers that provide waiver program services to certain eligible individuals with a developmental disability to participate in the pilot program; requiring the Department to determine, establish, and publish certain rates for the waiver program services in a certain manner; requiring certain providers to submit a claim for payment for certain services on a form the Department requires; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 390 on 05/13/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
State Personnel – Merit Pay [HB-1240]
Requiring the Governor to include a certain appropriation in the Fiscal 2021 budget for merit pay increases for certain permanent employees in the Executive Branch of State government.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Hill
Hearing 4/03 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/26/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Public Health - Healthy Maryland Program - Establishment [HB-1087]
Providing that the General Assembly finds that all State residents have a right to health care; providing it is the intent of the General Assembly to establish a comprehensive universal single-payer health care coverage program and a health care cost control system; establishing Healthy Maryland as a public corporation and a unit of State government to provide comprehensive universal health coverage for every State resident; requiring Healthy Maryland to provide certain services for residents of the State by January 1, 2021; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Dumais
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations; Withdrawn on 03/28/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
State Mental Health Facilities - Staffing Committee and Plan [HB-1006]
Requiring each State mental health facility to establish a staffing committee to create a staffing plan for nurses working in the State facility; providing for the membership of a staffing committee; providing for the contents of a staffing plan; requiring a staffing committee to convene by November 30, 2019 and at least once during each 3-month period thereafter for a certain purpose; requiring a State facility to submit a certain staffing plan to the Maryland Department of Health; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations; Withdrawn on 03/11/2019
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Regional Institutes for Children and Adolescents - Report Before Closure [SB-586]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to submit a report, justifying the closure, to the Governor and specified legislative committees before a regional institute for children and adolescents may be closed; requiring the report to address specified items; and requiring the committees to have 60 days to review and comment on the report.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Feldman
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 685 on 05/28/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Prescription Drug Monitoring Program - Modifications [SB-537]
Requiring that specified authorized providers be registered with the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program before obtaining a new or renewal controlled dangerous substance registration; requiring that specified prescribers be registered with the Program before obtaining a new or renewal registration or by July 1, 2017, whichever is sooner; authorizing the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to identify and publish a list of monitored prescription drugs with a low potential for abuse; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Vetoed By The Governor (duplicative) on 05/27/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Clifton T. Perkins Maximum Security Guards - Allowances [SB-473]
Altering the age at which a normal service retirement allowance begins for a member of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System who is a maximum security attendant at the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center; altering the age at which a vested allowance begins for specified members of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System who serve as maximum security attendants at the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center; and providing for the prospective application of specified provisions of the Act.
Sponsored by: Sen. Douglas Peters
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 211 on 04/26/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Developmental Disabilities Administration - Crisis Resolution and Prevention Resolution Services - Funding and Reporting [SB-413]
Requiring a specified report on the Waiting List Equity Fund to include information regarding individuals in the crisis resolution category of the waiting list for developmental disabilities services; establishing mandated appropriations for developmental disabilities community services; declaring the intent of the General Assembly that an individual who, after receiving services provided with specified funds, continue to receive uninterrupted developmental disabilities services in accordance with the individual's needs; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Hearing 3/29 At 1:00 P.m. (health And Government Operations) on 03/29/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Health Care Facilities - Closures or Partial Closures of Hospitals - County Board of Health Approval [SB-12]
Prohibiting a person proposing to close or partially close a hospital that receives State and county funding from closing or partially closing the hospital except under specified circumstances; requiring the county board of health for the county in which the hospital is located to hold a public hearing at a location within 5 miles of the hospital and within 30 days of receiving notice of the proposed closure or partial closure; requiring the board of health to consider specified factors; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Hearing 2/24 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/24/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Mental Health - Voluntary and Involuntary Admissions - Certification by Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners [SB-1081]
Defining "psychiatric nurse practitioner" for purposes of specified provisions of law relating to the voluntary and involuntary admissions of individuals to specified facilities for the treatment of mental disorders; prohibiting a certificate signed by a psychiatric nurse practitioner for the involuntary admission of an individual to specified facilities for the treatment of a mental disorder from being used for an admission under specified circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 241 on 04/26/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Public Health - Assisted Outpatient Treatment and Mobile Crisis Teams [HB-441]
Providing that an application for assisted outpatient treatment may be submitted to a court by specified individuals; authorizing, under specified circumstances, a court to order assisted outpatient treatment for a specified individual; requiring the Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System to include a crisis communication center in each jurisdiction or region to provide mobile crisis teams operating in a specified manner; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Warren Miller
Hearing 2/16 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/16/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Prescription Drug Monitoring Program - Modifications [HB-437]
Requiring that specified authorized providers be registered with the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program before obtaining a new or renewal controlled dangerous substance registration; requiring that specified prescribers be registered with the Program before obtaining a new or renewal registration or by July 1, 2017, whichever is sooner; authorizing the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to identify and publish a list of monitored prescription drugs that have low potential for abuse; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 147 on 04/26/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Commission on the Disposition of the Crownsville Hospital Center Property [HB-28]
Establishing the Commission on the Disposition of the Crownsville Hospital Center Property as an independent unit in the Executive Branch; placing the Commission under the Department of General Services for administrative and budgetary purposes; authorizing the Commission to sell, transfer, or otherwise dispose of specified property and enter into contracts and execute specified instruments to carry out its purpose; terminating the Act on June 30, 2018; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep.
First Reading Senate Rules on 03/24/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Mental Health - Voluntary and Involuntary Admissions - Certification by Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners [HB-1561]
Defining "psychiatric nurse practitioner" for purposes of specified provisions of law relating to the voluntary and involuntary admissions of individuals to specified facilities for the treatment of mental disorders; prohibiting a certificate signed by a psychiatric nurse practitioner for the involuntary admission of an individual to specified facilities for the treatment of a mental disorder from being used for an admission under specified circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sheree Sample-Hughes
Hearing 4/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 04/11/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Health Care Facilities - Closures or Partial Closures of Hospitals - County Board of Health Approval [HB-1121]
Prohibiting a person proposing to close or partially close a hospital that receives State and county funding from closing or partially closing the hospital except under specified circumstances; requiring the county board of health for the county in which the hospital is located to hold a specified public hearing at a location within 5 miles of the hospital and within 30 days of receiving notice of the proposed closure or partial closure of a hospital; requiring the board of health to consider specified factors; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Hearing 3/10 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/10/2016
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Public Health - Nondiscrimination in Access to Anatomical Gifts and Organ Transplantation [SB-792]
Prohibiting specified entities from taking specified actions regarding organ transplantation and anatomical gifts solely on the basis of an individual's disability; prohibiting specified insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from denying coverage for organ transplantations solely on the basis of an insured's or enrollee's disability; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 383 on 05/12/2015