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| 2018 SESSION OF THE |
| Volume 24, Number 3 | February 1, 2018 |
Here are some of the hot issues as the 2018 Legislative Session develops:
BILLS INTRODUCED
Behavioral Health HB326/SB288 Public Health - Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Supervised Drug Consumption Facility Program Authorizing the establishment of an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Supervised Drug Consumption Facility Program by a community-based organization to provide a place for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide sterile needles, administer first aid as needed, and provide certain other services; requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in consultation with the local health department, to make a certain determination on a certain application based on certain criteria and within a certain period of time; etc. Hearing Date: Tue 2/13 1:00 PM Effective Date: October 1, 2018 HB359/SB309 Health - Reporting of Overdose Information Authorizing emergency medical services providers and law enforcement officers to report certain overdoses using a certain information technology platform with secure access; requiring that the report include certain information; requiring the emergency medical services provider or law enforcement officer making a report to make certain efforts to make the report within 24 hours after responding to the incident; etc. Hearing Date: Tue 2/13 1:00 PM Effective Date: July 1, 2018 HB384 Substance Use Facilities and Programs - Certificate of Need - Repeal of Requirement Altering the definition of "health care facility" for the purpose of excluding certain substance use treatment facilities and programs from the certificate of need requirements. Hearing Date: Tue 2/13 1:00 PM Effective Date: June 1, 2018 HB445 Health - Certified Recovery Residences - Urine Testing Requiring a certain credentialing entity to establish minimum standards requiring certain residents and employees of a certified recovery residence to submit to a urine test at a certain frequency and of a certain type; and requiring a certain credentialing entity to establish minimum standards that require certain recovery residences to maintain a certain record. Hearing Date: Effective Date: October 1, 2018 HB499 Health - Standards for Involuntary Admissions and Petitions for Emergency Evaluation - Modification Altering a certain exception to allow for the involuntary admission of certain individuals who have experienced a drug overdose to certain facilities or a Veterans' Administration hospital; altering certain circumstances to allow a petition for an emergency evaluation to be made for certain individuals who have experienced a drug overdose; altering the circumstances under which a court is required to endorse a petition for an emergency evaluation; etc. Hearing Date: Effective Date: October 1, 2018 HB517 Pharmacy Drug Monitoring Program - Data Request Exemption - Regional Anesthesia Patients Altering a certain provision of law to exempt a prescriber from being required to request certain data from the Pharmacy Drug Monitoring Program if the opioid or benzodiazepine is prescribed or dispensed to an individual to treat or prevent acute pain for not more than 14 days following a surgical procedure in which regional anesthesia, including spinal and epidural techniques, was used; and making the Act subject to a certain contingency. Hearing Date: Tue 2/13 1:00 PM Effective Date: July 1, 2018 HB626/SB259 Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Medication Adherence Technology Pilot Program Establishing a certain pilot program to expand the use of medication adherence technology to increase prescription drug adherence of Maryland Medical Assistance Program recipients who are diagnosed as having a severe and persistent mental illness; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to administer the pilot program; requiring the Department to provide a medication adherence technology system to certain recipients; requiring the Department to report on the program to the Governor and certain committees of the General Assembly; etc. Hearing Date: Tue 2/13 1:00 PM Effective Date: June 1, 2018 [GO TO TOP] [GO TO BILL LIST] HB432/SB545 Public Safety - Maryland Violence Intervention and Prevention Program Fund - Establishment Establishing the Maryland Violence Intervention and Prevention Program Fund to provide funds to local governments to implement evidence-based or evidence-informed health programs and to evaluate the efficacy of evidence-based and evidence-informed health programs; requiring the Governor to annually appropriate at least $5,000,000 to the Fund; establishing the Maryland Violence Intervention and Prevention Advisory Council; etc. Hearing Date: Tue 2/6 1:00 PM Effective Date: July 1, 2018 HB436 Baltimore Police Department - Reporting on Community Policing Altering the information required to be in a certain annual report provided by the Police Commissioner of Baltimore City to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and the members of the Baltimore City Delegation to the General Assembly to include the number of sworn Hispanic American police officers in the Department, the number of sworn officers assigned to the Community Collaboration Division, and the fiscal year budget allocation for the Community Collaboration Division. Hearing Date: Tue 2/13 1:00 PM Effective Date: October 1, 2018 HB440 Baltimore City - Police Districts - Redistricting Requiring the Police Commissioner of Baltimore City, following each decennial census of the United States, to prepare a plan for the adjustment of the geographic boundaries and composition of each Baltimore City police district and the reallocation of the resources and personnel of the Baltimore City Police Department among the districts using certain information; requiring the Commissioner to present the plan to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City within 1 year of the issuance of the decennial census data; etc. Hearing Date: Effective Date: October 1, 2018 HB561 Office of Legislative Audits - Audits of the Baltimore City Police Department Requiring the Office of Legislative Audits to conduct an audit of the Baltimore City Police Department to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the financial management practices of the Department beginning July 1, 2019, and at least once every 6 years thereafter; and requiring the Office of Legislative Audits to provide certain information to the Baltimore City Police Department. Hearing Date: Effective Date: October 1, 2018 HB578 Task Force to Study Law Enforcement Surveillance Technologies Establishing the Task Force to Study Law Enforcement Surveillance Technologies for the purpose of reviewing the current and planned use of surveillance technology by law enforcement agencies in the State, including certain matters; requiring State agencies represented to staff the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 5, 2018; etc. Hearing Date: Tue 2/20 1:00 PM Effective Date: June 1, 2018 [GO TO TOP] [GO TO BILL LIST] HB303 Housing and Community Development - Neighborhood and Community Assistance Program Tax Credit - Maximum Contributions Increasing from $3,500,000 to $6,000,000 the maximum sum of contributions for certain projects under the Neighborhood and Community Assistance Program that are eligible for the Neighborhood and Community Assistance Program tax credit. Hearing Date: Wed 2/7 1:00 PM Effective Date: October 1, 2018 HB521 Income Tax - Research and Development Credit - Small Business Set-Aside Requiring the Department of Commerce to make available 20% of the total amount of research and development tax credits that the Department may approve in a calendar year to small businesses; providing for the use of certain unused credits; providing for the calculation of the credit if more than a certain amount of credits are applied for in a calendar year; applying the Act to all research and development tax credits certified after December 15, 2017; etc. Hearing Date: Wed 2/14 1:00 PM Effective Date: July 1, 2018 HB526 Income Tax - Angel Investor Tax Credit Program Allowing a credit against the State income tax for 50% of an investment made in a qualified innovation business, not to exceed $50,000, or $100,000 for a qualified investor that is a married couple filing jointly or a pass-through entity; requiring a qualified investor to meet certain requirements in order to be eligible for the credit; requiring the Department of Commerce to administer the credit; applying the Act to certain taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017; etc. Hearing Date: Wed 2/14 1:00 PM Effective Date: July 1, 2018 HB527 Higher Education - Maryland Technology Internship Program - Alterations Altering the Maryland Technology Internship Program to include certain technology-based internships with units of State and local governments and to require that at least 50% of the internships supported by the Program each year be with businesses that have not more than 150 employees; repealing a requirement that a business have not more than 150 employees to qualify for participation in the Program; establishing certain requirements for a unit of State or local government to qualify for participation in the Program; etc. Hearing Date: Thu 2/8 2:00 PM Effective Date: July 1, 2018 SB310/HB364 CyberMaryland Act of 2018 Allowing a subtraction modification under the State income tax for certain capital gain income realized on the disposition of an investment in a certain cybersecurity company; authorizing certain buyers of certain technology to claim a credit against the State income tax equal to 50% of certain costs incurred to purchase certain technology; requiring the Secretary of Commerce to approve certain applications for the credits; applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017; etc. Hearing Date: Wed 2/21 1:00 PM Effective Date: July 1, 2018 [GO TO TOP] [GO TO BILL LIST] HB420/SB532 Higher Education - Financial Aid - In-State Students (The Jill Wrigley Memorial Scholarship Expansion Act) Making individuals who are eligible for in-State financial aid eligible for a Delegate Howard P. Rawlings Educational Excellence Award and part-time grants. Hearing Date: Effective Date: July 1, 2018 HB605 State Student Loan Refinancing Program - Market-Specific Consultant Study Requiring the Maryland Health and Higher Educational Facilities Authority to engage an outside consultant to conduct a market-specific study to make certain determinations related to a State student loan refinancing program in Maryland; requiring the consultant to report to the Authority and requiring the report to include certain elements; requiring the Authority to review the consultant's report and make certain comments or recommendations to certain committees of the General Assembly; terminating the Act after June 30, 2020; etc. Hearing Date: Effective Date: June 1, 2018 [GO TO TOP] [GO TO BILL LIST] HB351/SB301 Protect Our Students Act of 2018 Requiring a certain educational accountability program to include certain school quality indicators; altering the maximum percentage of certain academic indicators in a certain composite score to be 80%; repealing a prohibition that certain indicators be weighted in a certain manner; etc. Hearing Date: Effective Date: Upon Enactment HB355/SB302 Accountability in Education Act of 2018 Establishing the Education Monitoring Unit in the State; providing that the Unit is an independent unit; establishing the Investigator General Selection and Review Commission in the Unit; requiring the Commission to appoint the Investigator General in accordance with certain procedures; requiring the Unit to investigate certain complaints; requiring the Unit to establish an anonymous electronic tip program; requiring the Unit to submit an annual report by December 15 to the State Board, the Governor, and the General Assembly; etc. Hearing Date: Effective Date: Upon Enactment HB437 Baltimore City - Red Light and Speed Camera Fines - Grants to Schools (Baltimore City Technology and Resource Act of 2018) Requiring Baltimore City to use certain fines collected from violations enforced by certain traffic control signal monitoring systems or speed monitoring systems to make grants to certain low-performing schools and schools that have not met certain academic standards; requiring the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to establish a need-based formula for distributing grants; providing that after making grants of at least $25,000,000 in the aggregate, Baltimore City is not required to make additional grants; etc. Hearing Date: Effective Date: July 1, 2018 SB188/HB170 Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 2017 - Public School Construction Program - Baltimore City Heating and Ventilation Projects Amending the Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 2017 to expand a statement of intent of the General Assembly to require that certain funds from the fiscal 2017 Statewide Contingency are to be used for heating and ventilation projects in Baltimore City Public Schools. Hearing Date: Tue 1/30 1:30 PM Effective Date: Upon Enactment [GO TO TOP] [GO TO BILL LIST] HB344/SB425 Continuing Care Agreements - Termination - Notice and Contractual Entrance Fee Refunds Repealing the requirement that certain continuing care agreements contain a certain statement relating to contractual entrance fee refunds; requiring that a certain notice to terminate a certain continuing care agreement be given to the provider at least 30 days before the effective date of termination; and altering from 60 days to 30 days the period of time within which certain continuing care providers are required to pay certain contractual entrance fee refunds. Hearing Date: Wed 2/7 1:00 PM Effective Date: October 1, 2018 HB614/SB390 Hospitals - Changes in Status - Hospital Employee Retraining and Placement Requiring a hospital that downsizes to pay a fee directly to the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation if workers are displaced; requiring the Health Services Cost Review Commission to prorate the total amount of certain fees among all hospitals in a certain manner to derive the individual fee for each hospital; requiring the Department to establish a program for retraining and placement of certain hospital employees; etc. Hearing Date: Tue 2/20 1:00 PM Effective Date: October 1, 2018 [GO TO TOP] [GO TO BILL LIST] HB407/SB232 Public Health - General Hospice Care Programs - Collection and Disposal of Unused Prescription Medication Requiring a general hospice care program to establish a written unused prescription medication collection and disposal policy that includes certain provisions; requiring an employee of a general hospice care program to immediately collect and dispose of a certain patient's unused prescription medication under certain circumstances; etc. Hearing Date: Tue 2/13 1:00 PM Effective Date: October 1, 2018 SB476 Dispensing of Naloxone - Hospital Emergency Departments - Registered Nurses Authorizing a certain health care provider to delegate the dispensing of naloxone to a licensed registered nurse, while working in a hospital emergency department, under certain circumstances. Hearing Date: Thu 2/15 1:00 PM Effective Date: October 1, 2018 [GO TO TOP] [GO TO BILL LIST] HB292 Health Insurance - Group Health Benefit Plans - Disclosure of Information Requiring certain health insurance carriers to provide to the policyholder or plan sponsor of a group health benefit plan a renewal premium rate calculation statement at least 90 days before the date of renewal of the group health benefit plan; altering the definition of "large employer" for certain disclosure purposes to mean an employer that, during the immediately preceding calendar year, employed an average of more than 50 employees; applying the Act; etc. Hearing Date: Thu 2/15 1:00 PM Effective Date: January 1, 2019 HB412/SB207 Health Insurance - Medical Stop-Loss Insurance - Repeal of Sunset Repealing the termination date of certain provisions of law relating to medical stop-loss insurance. Hearing Date: Wed 2/7 1:00 PM Effective Date: June 1, 2018 [GO TO TOP] [GO TO BILL LIST] HB368 Institutions of Higher Education - Hazing - Required Reporting and Education Requiring the governing board of each institution of higher education to adopt and submit to the Maryland Higher Education Commission a written policy on hazing; requiring institutions of higher education to provide students with a certain educational program on hazing; requiring the Commission to take certain actions regarding hazing policies and to provide the General Assembly with an annual report on certain policies adopted, the number of hazing incidents reported, and the outcomes of the incidents by August 1; etc. Hearing Date: Tue 2/6 1:00 PM Effective Date: October 1, 2018 HB511 Public Institutions of Higher Education - Hate-Bias Incident Prevention Requiring each public institution of higher education to develop, implement, and submit to the Maryland Higher Education Commission a certain plan for a program to prevent hate-bias incidents; requiring each public institution of higher education to develop and implement a hate-bias response protocol; requiring an electronic crime alert notification system to include notification of hate-bias incidents; requiring public institutions of higher education to report certain information to the Commission each year; etc. Hearing Date: Thu 2/8 2:00 PM Effective Date: October 1, 2018 HB527 Higher Education - Maryland Technology Internship Program - Alterations Altering the Maryland Technology Internship Program to include certain technology-based internships with units of State and local governments and to require that at least 50% of the internships supported by the Program each year be with businesses that have not more than 150 employees; repealing a requirement that a business have not more than 150 employees to qualify for participation in the Program; establishing certain requirements for a unit of State or local government to qualify for participation in the Program; etc. Hearing Date: Thu 2/8 2:00 PM Effective Date: July 1, 2018 SB303 Higher Education - Community College Tuition and Residency Waivers - Funding Requiring the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2020, to include in the annual State budget for the Maryland Higher Education Commission a General Fund appropriation of $7,000,000 to fund State-mandated tuition and residency waivers for community colleges; requiring the Commission to distribute the appropriation to each community college board of trustees based on the number of qualifying students enrolled in each community college in proportion to the total number of enrolled qualifying students, as determined by the Commission; etc. Hearing Date: Wed 2/7 1:00 PM Effective Date: July 1, 2018 SB317 Higher Education Degree and Job Certification Without Debt Act of 2018 Requiring the Governor to include certain amounts in the State budget to the Higher Education Commission for near completer grants for certain recipients; establishing the Maryland Community College Promise Program to provide the opportunity for community college students to earn an associate degree or a certificate debt-free; imposing a certain State income tax on the Maryland taxable income, attributable to investment management services, of an individual or a corporation or the distributive share of a pass-through entity; etc. Hearing Date: Wed 2/7 1:00 PM Effective Date: July 1, 2018 SB517 Career Apprenticeship Investment Act Increasing the amount from $1,00,000 to $3,000,000 of an appropriation that the Governor is required to provide in the annual budget for the Maryland Higher Education Commission for Workforce Development Sequence Scholarships; requiring the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation to create a statewide media campaign to promote participation in career and technical education and apprenticeships in workforce shortage occupations; requiring the Governor to provide at least $2,000,000 in fiscal year 2020 for the grant program; etc. Hearing Date: Tue 2/20 1:00 PM Effective Date: July 1, 2018, October 1, 2018 [GO TO TOP] [GO TO BILL LIST] HB291 Correctional Services - Inmate Case Record - Educational, Vocational, and Job History Requiring the Division of Correction to conduct a certain educational, vocational, and job history interview for each inmate as soon as feasible after the individual is sentenced to the jurisdiction of the Division; and requiring the Division to include the results of a certain educational, vocational, and job history interview in certain inmate case records. Hearing Date: Tue 1/30 1:00 PM Effective Date: October 1, 2018 HB634/SB285 Commission to Advance Next Generation 9-1-1 Across Maryland - Establishment Establishing the Commission to Advance Next Generation 9-1-1 Across Maryland to study emerging communications technologies and develop a strategy for implementation of Next Generation 9-1-1 services across the State; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; requiring the Commission to report its final findings and recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly by December 1, 2019; etc. Hearing Date: Tue 2/20 1:00 PM Effective Date: June 1, 2018 [GO TO TOP] [GO TO BILL LIST] HB371/SB175 Emergency Medical Services - Emergency Medical Services Board - Appointments Repealing a provision that prohibits the Governor from appointing a member of the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland, the Board of Directors of the Medical System Corporation, or an officer or a full-time employee of the Medical System Corporation or the University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus to the Emergency Medical Services Board. Hearing Date: Thu 2/8 1:00 PM Effective Date: October 1, 2018 HB442 Education - Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Instruction in Public Schools Requiring a county board of education to provide age-appropriate instruction on organ and tissue donation and registration to students in grades 9 through 12 in the public schools in the county; and specifying the purposes and goals of the instruction concerning organ and tissue donation. Hearing Date: Thu 2/15 1:00 PM Effective Date: October 1, 2018 HB622/SB161 Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Sickle Cell Disease Management Programs Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health to establish certain guidelines for certain employees to utilize in the management of a student's sickle cell disease while the student is on the premises of a public or nonpublic school during certain hours and at school-sponsored activities, in collaboration with certain individuals; requiring a county board of education, on or before July 1, 2019, to establish a policy for public schools within its jurisdiction to utilize certain guidelines; etc. Hearing Date: Thu 2/15 1:00 PM Effective Date: July 1, 2018 SB266/HB716 Maryland Health Care Commission ? Mortality Rates of African American Infants and Infants in Rural Areas ? Study Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission, in consultation with the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities and interested stakeholders, to conduct a study on the mortality rates of African American infants and infants in rural areas; requiring the Commission to examine certain factors; requiring the Commission to report its findings and recommendations, including draft legislation establishing a permanent council on infant mortality in the State, to certain committees of the General Assembly by June 30, 2019; etc. Hearing Date: Thu 2/8 1:00 PM Effective Date: July 1, 2018 SB444 Task Force on the Social Determinants of Health in Baltimore City Establishing the Task Force on the Social Determinants of Health in Baltimore City; providing for the duties, purpose, composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring, to the extent practicable, the Task Force to reflect a certain diversity; requiring the Task Force to identify and examine certain social factors and develop and implement certain solutions for a certain purpose; authorizing the Task Force to apply for certain grants; requiring the Task Force to consult with the Office of Minority Health and Disparities; etc. Hearing Date: Wed 2/14 1:00 PM Effective Date: July 1, 2018 SB456 Tobacco Products - Minimum Age and Civil Fines Altering certain provisions of law to prohibit a certain person from distributing a certain tobacco product to an individual under the age of 21 years, rather than to a minor; prohibiting a person from distributing a certain tobacco product without first examining a government-issued photographic identification of a certain purchaser or recipient in order to determine the date of birth of the prospective purchaser or recipient; etc. Hearing Date: Thu 2/15 1:00 PM Effective Date: October 1, 2018 [GO TO TOP] [GO TO BILL LIST] HB365/SB184 Income Tax - Personal Exemptions - Alteration Altering the determination of the number of exemptions that an individual may use to calculate a certain deduction under the Maryland income tax; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017. Hearing Date: Wed 2/7 1:00 PM Effective Date: July 1, 2018 HB476 Income Tax Credit - Employment of Diversion Program Participants (Second Chance Act) Allowing a credit against the State income tax for certain wages paid by certain business entities to employees who participate in a diversion program that provides rehabilitation and training services in lieu of criminal prosecution to an individual charged with a nonviolent criminal offense; providing for the calculation of the credit; applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017; etc. Hearing Date: Wed 2/14 1:00 PM Effective Date: July 1, 2018 [GO TO TOP] [GO TO BILL LIST] HB535/SB407 Transportation - Complete Streets Program - Establishment Establishing the Complete Streets Program; specifying the purpose and goals of the Program; requiring the Governor to annually appropriate at least $1,000,000 in funding for the Program; specifying the requirements for a local government to be designated as a certified jurisdiction; authorizing a certified jurisdiction to apply for grants from the Program; specifying the use of grant funds; specifying certain requirements for a certified jurisdiction that receives a grant under the Program; etc. Hearing Date: Thu 2/15 1:00 PM Effective Date: July 1, 2018 Legislative Session Office Legislative Hotline is a service of Johns Hopkins Government Affairs. © 2016 The Johns Hopkins Institutions. 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