| Legislation/Issues | Synopsis | Resources | New This Week/Upcoming Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| SB 62 (HB 355) - Health Occupations - Licensed Direct-Entry Midwives - Previous Cesarean Section | Allowing a licensed direct-entry midwife to assume or take responsibility for a client who had a previous cesarean section and regulating the circumstances under which the responsibility may be assumed or taken; altering the required contents of a certain informed consent agreement; and requiring the State Board of Nursing, in consultation with certain stakeholders, to develop a transport protocol for clients who had a previous cesarean section. | SB 62 HB 355 | Withdrawn by Sponsor (2/5) Withdrawn by Sponsor (2/5) |
| SB 874 (HB 1006) - Hospitals and Ambulatory Surgical Facilities - Surgical Technologists | Prohibiting a hospital or an ambulatory surgical facility from employing or contracting with an individual to provide surgical technology services unless the individual completes certain educational requirements and holds a certain credential or provides documentation of certain training or employment; and requiring a hospital or an ambulatory surgical facility to submit to the Maryland Department of Health, on request, certain documentation related to surgical technologists. | SB 874 HB 1006 | Withdrawn by Sponsor (3/25) Withdrawn by Sponsor (3/16) |
| SB 1020 (HB 1194) - Hospitals - Clinical Staffing Committees and Plans - Establishment (Safe Staffing Act of 2024) | Requiring each hospital licensed in the State to establish and maintain a clinical staffing committee and to implement a clinical staffing plan; requiring the Health Services Cost Review Commission to conduct investigations regarding alleged violations of certain provisions of this Act; and authorizing the Health Services Cost Review Commission to take certain actions if the Commission determines a violation has occurred. | SB 1020 HB 1194 | Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 p.m. (2/9) Referred Finance (3/18) |
| SB 1182 (HB 1388) - Labor and Employment - Noncompete and Conflict of Interest Clauses - Veterinary and Health Care Professionals | Applying to certain veterinary and health care professionals certain provisions of law stating that certain noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in certain employment contracts are null and void as being against the public policy of the State; and applying the Act retroactively. | SB 1182 HB 1388 | First Reading Senate Rules (2/20) Passed Enrolled (4/6) |
| HB 804 - Certificate of Need - Psychiatric Health Care Facilities and Psychiatric and Mental Health Services - Exemption | 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. | HB 804 | Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m. (2/9) |