State Procurement - Purposes and Policies [HB-430]
Expanding the purposes and policies of the State procurement law to require that the purposes and policies include providing safeguards for maintaining transparency in the procurement process; and ensuring that all persons involved with the administration of the State procurement process meet specified requirements in a specified manner and in accordance with applicable law.
HB-430: State Procurement - Purposes and Policies
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
Hearing Cancelled on 02/09/2010
Medical Review Committees - Subpoenas - Medical Records for Mental Health [HB-431]
Requiring a medical review committee to notify a patient that the medical review committee is issuing a subpoena as the result of a specified complaint for specified medical records for mental health services on the same day that the subpoena is issued.
HB-431: Medical Review Committees - Subpoenas - Medical Records for Mental Health
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations on 04/06/2010
Health Insurance - Reimbursement of Primary Care Providers - Bonus Payments [HB-435]
Requiring specified health insurance carriers to pay a bonus to primary care providers for services provided in the office after 6 p.m. and before 8 a.m. or on weekends and national holidays; requiring specified health insurance carriers to include specified items in their contracts with primary care providers; providing for an exception; etc.
HB-435: Health Insurance - Reimbursement of Primary Care Providers - Bonus Payments
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
Approved By The Governor on 05/20/2010
Education - Discrimination Prohibited - Protected Classes [HB-462]
Altering a provision of law relating to discrimination in the employment of teachers in the public schools in the State to conform to other provisions of State law governing discrimination in employment.
Health Insurance - Prescription Drugs - Cost-Sharing Obligations [HB-478]
Prohibiting specified insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a cost-sharing obligation for a prescription drug that exceeds the dollar amount of the cost-sharing obligation for a prescription drug in a specified category; prohibiting a person from making or allowing unfair discrimination between specified individuals in the amount of the cost-sharing obligation imposed for a prescription drug; etc.
HB-478: Health Insurance - Prescription Drugs - Cost-Sharing Obligations
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations Withdrawn on 03/16/2010
Food and Cosmetics - Auction Sales - Prohibition - Exception [HB-494]
Prohibiting a person from selling specified infant formula and baby food at an auction sale unless the person notifies in writing the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene of the proposed auction; authorizing the Secretary to make specified inspections; exempting the sale of cosmetics, infant formula, or baby food offered in a lot at charity auctions from specified prohibitions if the total value of the items in the lot is less than $100; etc.
Anne Arundel County - Board of Education and School Board Nominating Commission [HB-510]
Requiring that all actions of the Anne Arundel County Board of Education and the School Board Nominating Commission of Anne Arundel County be taken at a public meeting and that specified records and actions be made public; and providing that an open meetings and public records requirement does not prohibit the county board or the Commission from meeting in executive session provided that specified information is contained in a public record.
HB-510: Anne Arundel County - Board of Education and School Board Nominating Commission
Sponsored by: Rep. Tony McConkey
Hearing Cancelled on 02/10/2010
Video Lottery Terminals - Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall [HB-512]
Altering the number of video lottery operation licenses and number of video lottery terminals that may be awarded to provide for the award of a video lottery facility operation license at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport under specified conditions; providing that a specified restriction in the number of video lottery facility operation licenses is not applicable; etc.
HB-512: Video Lottery Terminals - Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Bromwell
Unfavorable Report By Ways And Means on 03/27/2010
Justice's Law [HB-523]
Increasing the maximum penalty for first degree child abuse resulting in death of the victim to life imprisonment; and increasing the maximum penalty for a subsequent conviction of child abuse resulting in death of the victim to life imprisonment.
HB-523: Justice's Law
Sponsored by: Rep. Susan Aumann
First Reading Judiciary on 02/01/2010