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HB804 - Certificate of Need - Psychiatric Health Care Facilities and Psychiatric and Mental Health Services - Exemption
Robin L. Grammer, Tiffany T. Alston, Steven J. Arentz
Last updated 8 months ago
32 Co-Sponsors
Altering the definition of "medical service" for the purpose of providing an exemption to the certificate of need requirement by removing psychiatry and any subcategory of psychiatry; and providing that a certificate of need is not required to establish or operate a psychiatric health care facility or to offer psychiatric or other mental health services at a health care facility.
STATUS
Introduced
HB829 - Public Health - Service Sector Employees - Mental Health Awareness and Skills Building Training
Tiffany T. Alston, Gabriel Acevero, Heather Bagnall
Last updated 7 months ago
23 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, subject to the limitations of its budget, to provide a virtual mental health awareness and skills building training program for service sector employees; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health, subject to the limitations of its budget and in coordination with the Maryland Department of Labor and the Public Service Commission, to conduct a public awareness campaign to increase the awareness among service sector employees of the availability of the training program.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB620 - Education - Sexual Abuse and Assault Awareness and Prevention Program - Human and Sex Trafficking
Steven Craig Johnson, Nick Allen, Robin L. Grammer
Last updated 7 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Requiring that a certain program on the awareness and prevention of sexual abuse and assault include, for students in grades 6 through 8, material promoting the awareness and prevention of human and sex trafficking.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB400 - Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Health Insurance - Annual Behavioral Health Wellness Visits - Coverage and Reimbursement
Jamila J. Woods, Tiffany T. Alston, Pamela Lanman Guzzone
Last updated 8 months ago
25 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for annual behavioral health wellness visits; and applying the Act to all policies, contracts, and health benefit plans issued, delivered, or renewed in the State on or after January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
HB597 - Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act
Nick Allen, Tiffany T. Alston, Marlon Amprey
Last updated 5 months ago
59 Co-Sponsors
Altering the Law Enforcement Cadet Apprenticeship Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to be the Public Safety Apprenticeship Program; expanding the purpose and scope of the Program to promote careers with certain public safety agencies; altering the eligibility criteria and the types of grants to be awarded under the Program; requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to develop certain mental health wellness policies to be implemented in certain law enforcement agencies and correctional facilities; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB419 - Consumer Protection - Automatic Tip Prompt Screen - Requirements
Mary A. Lehman, Jennifer Terrasa, Nick Allen
Last updated 6 months ago
23 Co-Sponsors
Requiring certain businesses that use a point-of-sale system that automatically prompts a customer to leave a tip to disclose to whom the tip will be allocated and display a tip amount that is set at zero by default; and establishing that a violation of the Act is an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB555 - Criminal Law - Unauthorized Dissemination of Personal Identifying Information - Prohibition
Andre V. Johnson, Gabriel Acevero, Adrian Boafo
Last updated 8 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting the unauthorized dissemination of certain personal identifying information in order to threaten, intimidate, or harass a person, incite or facilitate the commission of a crime of violence against a person, or place the person in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury or intend the information to be used in such a way; establishing a cause of action for a person injured by the intentional dissemination of certain personal identifying information; and establishing a certain defense.
STATUS
Introduced
HB583 - Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention - Establishment
Nick Allen, Marlon Amprey, Heather Bagnall
Last updated 5 months ago
53 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention in the Maryland Department of Health to reduce firearm violence, harm from firearm violence, and misuse of firearms in the State by partnering with federal, State, and local agencies and affected communities to implement a public health approach to firearm violence reduction; requiring the Center to submit to the Governor and the General Assembly by May 1, 2025, a preliminary State Plan for a Public Health Approach to Reducing Firearm Violence; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB420 - State and Local Parks - Play Area Accessibility - Recreation Communication Boards Pilot Program
Mary A. Lehman, Catherine M. Forbes, Michele Guyton
Last updated 5 months ago
17 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Department of Natural Resources and local governing bodies to construct communication boards in certain newly constructed public play areas; defining "communication board" as a device that displays photos, symbols, or illustrations to enable individuals with limited language skills to communicate; establishing the Maryland Recreation Communication Boards Pilot Program, subject to funding, to improve play area accessibility by covering the cost of purchasing and installing communication boards at State and local parks; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB576 - Mental Health - Assisted Outpatient Treatment Programs
Steven Craig Johnson, Nick Allen, Tiffany T. Alston
Last updated 5 months ago
70 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program by July 1, 2026; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program in a county that does not opt to establish the program by July 1, 2026; requiring the Office of the Public Defender to provide representation in assisted outpatient treatment proceedings; etc.
STATUS
Passed
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Representative from Maryland district HD-034
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Maryland House
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