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SB991 - Behavioral Health - Language Assistance Services Pilot Program
Clarence K. Lam
Last updated 4 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing the Language Assistance Services Pilot Program in the Behavioral Health Administration to provide grants to local behavioral health authorities to reimburse behavioral health providers for language assistance services for children with limited English proficiency accessing and receiving behavioral health services and for parents and legal guardians coordinating the provision of behavioral health services and making health care decisions regarding the services on behalf of a child; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB989 - Health Insurance - Epinephrine Injectors - Limits on Cost Sharing (Epinephrine Cost Reduction Act of 2024)
Clarence K. Lam, Charles Anthony Muse, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 8 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to limit the amount a covered individual is required to pay in copayments, coinsurance, and deductibles for a covered prescription epinephrine injector to not more than $60.
STATUS
Introduced
SB990 - Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Health Insurance - Step Therapy, Fail-First Protocols, and Prior Authorization - Prescription Drugs to Treat Serious Mental Illness
Clarence K. Lam
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Prohibiting the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations from applying a prior authorization requirement, step therapy protocol, or fail-first protocol for drugs to treat certain mental illnesses or a medication-induced movement disorder associated with the treatment of a serious mental illness.
STATUS
Introduced
SB943 - Vehicle Laws - Bus Lane Obstruction - Monitoring Systems Expansion and Workgroup (Better Bus Service Act of 2024)
Ariana M. Kelly, Clarence K. Lam
Last updated 4 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting a person from parking or standing certain vehicles in a dedicated bus lane; making statewide the authority of a local jurisdiction to use, in accordance with certain standards and procedures, a bus lane monitoring system to enforce the prohibition against driving, standing, or parking a motor vehicle in a designated bus lane; and establishing the Workgroup on Curb Space Management.
STATUS
Passed
SB987 - Business Regulation – Electronic Smoking Devices Manufacturers – Certifications
Clarence K. Lam
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring a tobacco product manufacturer and a certain electronic smoking devices manufacturer to pay a certain certification fee; authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission and the Attorney General to take certain action relating to the licensure of certain electronic smoking devices manufacturers, wholesalers, importers, and retailers and vape shop vendors in certain circumstances; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1099 - Emergency Services - Automated External Defibrillator and Naloxone Co-Location Initiative - Requirements for Public Buildings
William C. Smith, Dawn D. Gile, Mary Dulany James
Last updated 4 months ago
26 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the State Emergency Medical Services Board, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and implement an initiative under the Public Access Automated External Defibrillator Program to require that naloxone be co-located with each automated external defibrillator placed in a public building; establishing a certain immunity from liability for individuals who administer naloxone made available under the initiative in response to a known or suspected drug overdose; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB546 - Environment - State Wetlands - Shoreline Stabilization Measures
Sarah K. Elfreth, Pamela G Beidle, Joanne C. Benson
Last updated 8 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from exempting a person from the requirement to use certain shoreline stabilization measures for certain erosion protection projects solely on the basis of replacing a structural shoreline stabilization measure with the same or similar type of structural shoreline stabilization measure; and authorizing the Tidal Wetlands Compensation Fund to include grant funding for the replacement of structural shoreline stabilization measures with nonstructural shoreline stabilization measures.
STATUS
Introduced
SB642 - Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program
Benjamin T. Brooks, James C. Rosapepe, Charles Anthony Muse
Last updated 8 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a producer from selling, offering for sale, or distributing in or importing into the State a redeemable beverage container unless the producer is registered with the Department of the Environment, pays a certain fee, and is part of a certain stewardship organization; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB169 - Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program and Fund
Cheryl C. Kagan, Malcolm L. Augustine, Jack Bailey
Last updated 7 months ago
37 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and installation of qualifying energy systems; establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Fund; authorizing, in fiscal year 2026, the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $5,000,000 for the Fund; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB615 - General Provisions - Commemorative Days - Maryland Veterans Suicide Prevention Day
Bryan Warner Simonaire, Justin D Ready, Johnny Ray Salling
Last updated 4 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim September 30 as Maryland Veterans Suicide Prevention Day.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
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Senator from Maryland district SD-012
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Maryland Senate
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Clarence K. Lam is a member of the Democratic party. He serves in the Maryland State Senate representing District 12. Lam has served District 12 since 2011. Lam attended the University of Chicago for his Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. He earned his Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Lam currently resides in Howard County, Maryland, where he lives with his wife and children.read less
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