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SB93 - Health Insurance – Utilization Review – Private Review Agents
Malcolm L. Augustine
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring that certain criteria and standards used by private review agents for health insurance utilization review relating to mental health and substance use disorder benefits meet certain requirements; requiring a private review agent to take certain actions before issuing an adverse decision; and specifying the procedure for private review agents to follow when making decisions related to mental health and substance use disorder benefits.
STATUS
Introduced
SB476 - Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)
Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 6 months ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Providing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal who have thyroid, colon, or ovarian cancer are presumed, under certain circumstances, to have an occupational disease that was suffered in the line of duty and is compensable under workers' compensation law.
STATUS
Passed
SB436 - Workplace Fraud and Prevailing Wage - Violations - Penalties and Referrals
Dawn D. Gile, William C. Ferguson, Malcolm L. Augustine
Last updated 6 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Increasing a certain civil penalty and administrative penalty for employers knowingly failing to properly classify individuals as employees; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to refer to the Comptroller and the U.S. Department of Labor certain complaints that allege a violation of certain tax laws under certain circumstances.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB18 - Health Occupations - Pharmacists - Administration of Vaccines
Malcolm L. Augustine, Clarence K. Lam
Last updated 5 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing a pharmacist to order and administer certain vaccinations to individuals in certain age groups if certain requirements are met; altering the vaccinations that a pharmacist can administer to individuals who are at least 3 years old; and altering the circumstances under which a pharmacist may administer certain vaccinations.
STATUS
Passed
SB126 - Transportation - WMATA Operating Assistance - Alteration (Maryland Metro Funding Act of 2024)
Malcolm L. Augustine, Brian J. Feldman
Last updated 5 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Repealing, for certain fiscal years, the requirement that the Secretary of Transportation withhold 35% of the State's share of annual operating grants for the Washington Suburban Transit District if the State's operating assistance provided in the approved Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority budget increases by more than 3% over the total operating assistance provided in the prior fiscal year; and requiring the Secretary to withhold 35% of the State's share of grants for the District under certain circumstances.
STATUS
Passed
SB395 - Higher Education - Credit Eligibility and Transfer of Credits - English as a Second Language Courses (Credit for All Language Learning (CALL) Act)
Malcolm L. Augustine, James C. Rosapepe
Last updated 5 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Requiring a public community college to consider a course or program for English as a second language or English language learner as eligible for world language or humanities credit toward an associate's degree under certain circumstances; requiring that certain credits earned by students who transfer from community colleges to public institutions of higher education in the State be transferable; and requiring private nonprofit institutions of higher education in the State to review and consider the transfer of certain credits.
STATUS
Passed
SB5 - Higher Education - University System of Maryland, Morgan State University, and St. Mary's College of Maryland - Guaranteed Admissions
Malcolm L. Augustine
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the University System of Maryland, Morgan State University, and St. Mary's College of Maryland to develop admission policies that require the institutions to admit as freshmen applicants who graduate from a public or nonpublic high school in the State and are in the top 10% of their high school class.
STATUS
Introduced
SB171 - Landlord and Tenant - Notice of Utility Bills in Residential Leases - Gas and Electric Services
Malcolm L. Augustine
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Adding gas and electric utility services to the types of services for which landlords of buildings that contain six or more units are required to provide a written notice to a tenant, at the initiation of a lease and each term thereafter, providing the total utility costs billed to the landlord in the immediately preceding year for utility services, disaggregated by utility type; and applying certain requirements relating to payment of utility services to landlords of buildings that contain five or fewer residential dwelling units.
STATUS
Passed
SB445 - Maryland Department of Health - 2-1-1 Maryland - Oversight
Craig Zucker, Malcolm L. Augustine
Last updated 6 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Defining the term "Health and Human Services Referral System" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the System to mean a certain coordinated system for health and human service resources that is accessible to State residents, rather than a certain telephone service; repealing the requirement that the Maryland Department of Health evaluate the performance of certain call centers and make certain recommendations regarding the quality of service provided by call centers and corrective action to be taken by a call center; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB482 - Governor's Office for Children - Engaging Neighborhoods, Organizations, Unions, Governments, and Households (ENOUGH) Grant Program (ENOUGH Act of 2024)
Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 5 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to chair the Children's Cabinet; requiring the Office to staff the Children's Cabinet; requiring the Children's Cabinet to meet not less than four times each year; requiring the Accountability and Implementation Board, in consultation with certain departments, to submit a certain recommendation to the General Assembly by December 1, 2025; etc.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Maryland district SD-047
COMMITTEES
Maryland Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Malcolm L. Augustine is an attorney from Chicago, IL. He received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and his law degree from Indiana University - Bloomington. Prior to running for office, Augustine served as an attorney with the law firm of Augustine & Associates. He focused his practice on business law, commercial litigation, employment discrimination litigation, and civil rights litigation.read less
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