Advance Medical Directives
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
End-of-Life Option Act (The Honorable Elijah E. Cummings and the Honorable Shane E. Pendergrass Act) [HB-1328]
Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making certain requests; establishing requirements and prohibitions governing aid in dying, including requirements related to requests for aid in dying, consulting physicians, mental health assessments, the disposal of drugs prescribed for aid in dying, health care facility policies, and the effect of aid in dying on insurance policies; authorizing a pharmacist to dispense medication for aid in dying only to certain individuals under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Hearing 3/03 At 2:00 P.m. (health And Government Operations) And Hearing Canceled (judiciary) on 02/27/2025
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End-of-Life Option Act (The Honorable Elijah E. Cummings and the Honorable Shane E. Pendergrass Act) [SB-926]
Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making certain requests; establishing requirements and prohibitions governing aid in dying, including requirements related to requests for aid in dying, consulting physicians, mental health assessments, the disposal of drugs prescribed for aid in dying, health care facility policies, and the effect of aid in dying on insurance policies; authorizing a pharmacist to dispense medication for aid in dying only to certain individuals under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Smith
Hearing Canceled on 03/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Health - Nonopioid Advance Directives [HB-737]
Authorizing a competent individual to make a nonopioid advance directive stating that the individual refuses the offer or administration of opioid medication including during an emergency; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a model nonopioid advance directive form and make the form available on the Department's website.
Sponsored by: Rep. Heather Bagnall
Hearing 2/19 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Mental Health - Assisted Outpatient Treatment Programs [HB-576]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 703 on 05/16/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Mental Health - Assisted Outpatient Treatment Programs [SB-453]
Authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program; requiring the Maryland Department of Health, on or before July 1, 2026, to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program in a county that does not opt to establish a program; and requiring the Office of the Public Defender to provide representation in assisted outpatient treatment proceedings.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike McKay
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 704 on 05/16/2024
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Maryland Legal Services Corporation - Affordable Life, Wills, and Estate Planning for Seniors Grant Program [HB-760]
Establishing the Affordable Life, Wills, and Estate Planning for Seniors Grant Program in the Maryland Legal Services Corporation to provide eligible seniors access to affordable civil law-related services; and requiring the Governor to provide an appropriation of $225,000 in the annual budget for the Program.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Moon
Referred Rules on 04/07/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Maryland Legal Services Corporation - Affordable Life, Wills, and Estate Planning for Seniors Grant Program [SB-351]
Establishing the Affordable Life, Wills, and Estate Planning for Seniors Grant Program in the Maryland Legal Services Corporation to provide eligible seniors access to affordable civil law-related services; and requiring the Governor to provide an appropriation of $225,000 in the annual budget for the Program.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Washington
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 776 on 05/16/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Public Health - Mental Health Advance Directives - Awareness and Statewide Database [SB-154]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop and implement a public awareness campaign to encourage the use of mental health advance directives in the State; and requiring the Behavioral Health Administration and the Maryland Health Care Commission jointly to study how first responders and behavioral health crisis providers can access a certain advanced directive database when responding to a behavioral health crisis and to report to certain committees of the General Assembly on their findings on or before December 1, 2023.
Sponsored by: Sen. Pamela Beidle
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 297 on 05/03/2023
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Maryland 2022 Regular Session
Public Health - Mental Health Advance Directives - Awareness and Statewide Database [SB-994]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop and implement a public awareness campaign to encourage the use of mental health advance directives in the State; and requiring the Behavioral Health Administration to study the feasibility and cost of establishing a centralized statewide database of mental health advance directives and report the findings of the study to certain committees of the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2022.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Referred Rules And Executive Nominations on 03/29/2022
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Maryland 2022 Regular Session
Public Health - Mental Health Advance Directives - Awareness and Statewide Database [HB-1467]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop and implement a public awareness campaign to encourage the use of mental health advance directives in the State; and requiring the Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System in the Behavioral Health Administration to establish and maintain a centralized statewide database of mental health advance directives.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 02/26/2022
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Maryland 2022 Regular Session
Health - Accessibility of Electronic Advance Care Planning Documents [HB-1073]
Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to coordinate the accessibility of electronic advance care planning documents in the State; requiring certain health care facilities, managed care organizations, and carriers to take certain actions relating to electronic advance care planning documents; requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to submit a report regarding the implementation of certain provisions of law relating to advance directives; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 311 on 05/12/2022
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Maryland 2022 Regular Session
Health – Accessibility of Electronic Advance Care Planning Documents [SB-824]
Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to coordinate the accessibility of electronic advance care planning documents in the State; requiring certain health care facilities, managed care organizations, and carriers to take certain actions relating to electronic advance care planning documents; requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to submit a report regarding the implementation of certain provisions of law relating to advance directives; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Kramer
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 312 on 05/12/2022
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Maryland 2022 Regular Session
Health - Advance Care Planning and Advance Directives [SB-48]
Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to coordinate the implementation of advance care planning programs in the State; requiring each health insurance carrier to offer electronic advance directives to its members and enrollees at certain times and make arrangements to receive certain notifications; and authorizing a health insurance carrier to contract with an electronic advance directives service under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Kramer
Hearing Canceled on 02/07/2022
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Maryland 2022 Regular Session
Health – Advance Care Planning and Advance Directives [HB-14]
Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to coordinate the implementation of advance care planning programs in the State; requiring each health insurance carrier to offer electronic advance directives to its members and enrollees at certain times and make arrangements to receive certain notifications; and authorizing a health insurance carrier to contract with an electronic advance directives service under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bonnie Cullison
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/15/2022
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Wills, Powers of Attorney, and Advance Directives - Electronic Execution [SB-820]
Altering certain provisions of law related to the execution of wills, powers of attorney, and advance directives to authorize the electronic execution and remote witnessing of those documents under certain circumstances; providing that a will, a power of attorney, a notarization of a power of attorney, or an advance directive executed in conformance with the provisions of certain executive orders shall be deemed to satisfy certain requirements under the Act; applying the Act retroactively; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris West
Favorable With Amendments Report By Judiciary on 04/09/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Health - Advance Care Planning and Advance Directives [SB-837]
Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to coordinate the implementation of advance care planning programs in the State; requiring each health insurance carrier to offer electronic advance directives to its members and enrollees during open enrollment and periodically thereafter; and requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to submit a certain report to certain committees of the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2021.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Kramer
Hearing 4/01 At 1:30 P.m. on 03/29/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Baltimore City - Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Programs - Social Workers [HB-1292]
Requiring each nursing home and assisted living program in Baltimore City to designate a licensed social worker for each resident to serve as the resident's case manager; and authorizing a certain social worker to provide services for nursing home or assisted living program residents that will help them attain or maintain their physical, mental, and psychosocial status.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marlon Amprey
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/10/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Wills, Powers of Attorney, and Advance Directives – Electronic Execution [HB-1261]
Altering certain provisions of law related to the execution of wills, powers of attorney, and advance directives to authorize the electronic execution and remote witnessing of those documents under certain circumstances; providing that a will, a power of attorney, a notarization of a power of attorney, or an advance directive executed in conformance with the provisions of certain executive orders shall be deemed to satisfy certain requirements under the Act; applying the Act retroactively; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Wanika Fisher
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 686 on 05/30/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Estates and Trusts - Wills and Advance Medical Directives - Notaries Public [SB-519]
Providing that a will may be made self-proved in a certain manner; establishing certain requirements for a self-proving will; requiring a certain self-proving will to be acknowledged by the testator before a notary public; requiring a certain self-proving affidavit to be attached or annexed to a self-proving will; altering the requirements of an advance medical directive; requiring a declarant to acknowledge a certain advance medical directive before a notary public; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katherine Klausmeier
Hearing Canceled on 02/05/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Estates and Trusts - Wills and Advance Medical Directives - Notaries Public [HB-203]
Providing that a will may be made self-proved in a certain manner; establishing certain requirements for a self-proving will; requiring a certain self-proving will to be acknowledged by the testator before a notary public; requiring a certain self-proving affidavit to be attached or annexed to a self-proving will; altering the requirements of an advance medical directive; requiring a declarant to acknowledge a certain advance medical directive before a notary public; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Carl Jackson
Hearing 2/04 At 1:30 P.m. on 12/23/2021