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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
HB759 - Advanced Practice Registered Nurses - Professional Liability Insurance Coverage - Notification Requirements
Tiffany T. Alston
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring advanced practice registered nurses practicing as an advanced practice registered nurse in the State to notify patients in writing if the nurse does not maintain professional liability insurance coverage or if the coverage has lapsed and not been renewed; requiring that the notification be provided at certain visits and as part of certain informed consents, signed by a patient at certain times, and retained as part of the advanced practice registered nurse's patient records; etc.
STATUS
Passed
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
HB788 - Human Relations - Protections Against Discrimination - Criminal Records
Tiffany T. Alston, Gabriel Acevero, Debra Davis
Last updated 8 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting discrimination based on an individual's criminal record in public accommodations, commercial leasing, housing, and employment and by certain licensed or regulated persons; establishing certain exceptions to certain prohibitions established under the Act; and establishing that certain crimes are not included in the definition of "criminal record" for the purposes of certain provisions prohibiting discrimination.
STATUS
Introduced
HB553 - Family Law - Fundamental Parental Rights
April Fleming Miller, Christopher Troy Adams, Tiffany T. Alston
Last updated 8 months ago
36 Co-Sponsors
Establishing that a parent has the fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, care, and welfare of the parent's child; and prohibiting the State or a political subdivision from infringing on a parent's fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, care, and welfare of the parent's child unless the State or political subdivision can demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence certain factors.
STATUS
Introduced
HB543 - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - Seniors - State Supplement
Shaneka Henson, Tiffany T. Alston, Dalya Attar
Last updated 8 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Increasing the amount of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit that the State is required to provide for a household that includes an individual who is at least 62 years old.
STATUS
Introduced
HB564 - Real Property - Residential Leases - Renter's Insurance Requirement
Deni Taveras, Tiffany T. Alston, Ashanti Martinez
Last updated 8 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Requiring a residential lease to include a requirement that a tenant hold a renter's insurance policy; prohibiting a lease from containing certain requirements regarding a renter's insurance policy; and requiring a landlord to acquire a renter's insurance policy on behalf of a tenant if the tenant does not have a policy.
STATUS
Introduced
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
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
HB391 - Corporations and Associations - Protestant Episcopal Church, Diocese of Washington
Todd B. Morgan, Tiffany T. Alston, Adrian Boafo
Last updated 7 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Repealing uncodified provisions of law relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church, Diocese of Washington, commonly known as the "Vestry Act"; and providing for the governance of religious corporations in union with the Protestant Episcopal Church, Diocese of Washington.
STATUS
Engrossed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Maryland district HD-024
COMMITTEES
Maryland House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Tiffany T. Alston was born on September 6, 1971 in Washington, D.C. She earned her B.S. degree in Psychology from the University of Maryland in 1993. She earned her J.D. from Howard University School of Law in 1998. Alston served in the House of Delegates from 2011 to 2012. She is a member of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland and the Women Legislators of Maryland.read less
OFFICES HELD
Maryland House from Maryland
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