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Health Care and Reproductive Rights in the 2026 Session
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Subject | Bill Number | XFile Bill Number | Sponsor | Title | Status | Current Location | Priority | Position | Action | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Abortion - Heartbeat Bill | HB0049 | Delegate Metzgar | Public Health - Abortion (Heartbeat Bill) | First Reading Health | Health | Oppose | Requiring that an abortion be performed by a physician, rather than a qualified provider; repealing certain provisions of law related to State interference with an abortion, regulations related to abortion, and liability or criminal punishment for qualified providers who perform an abortion; prohibiting a physician from knowingly performing, inducing, or attempting to perform or induce an abortion under certain circumstances and subject to certain exceptions; etc. | |||
Assisted Reproductive Treatment-Fraud | HB0209 | Delegate Allen | Health Care Providers - Assisted Reproductive Treatment - Informed Consent and Fraud | First Reading Health | Health | Prohibiting a health care provider from using the health care provider's human reproductive material when providing assisted reproductive treatment without the consent of the recipient of the treatment; prohibiting a health care provider from using a donor's human reproductive material to provide assisted reproductive treatment without the donor's informed consent or in a manner that is inconsistent with the donor's consent; etc. | ||||
Confidentiality of Medical Records | HB0316 | Delegate Kaufman | Confidentiality of Medical Records - Definition of Medical Record | First Reading Health | Health | Altering the definition of 'medical record' for purposes of law governing the confidentiality of medical records to require that certain information be recorded by a health care provider through certain means, instead of entered into the record of a patient or recipient, and to include certain electronic messages. | ||||
Discipline of Providers-Court Actions | SB0083 | Senator Simonaire | Health Occupations - Grounds for Discipline - Federal and Court Actions | First Reading Finance | Finance | Oppose? | Altering the grounds for discipline by certain health occupations boards to include being disciplined by any branch of the uniformed services or the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; and altering the grounds for discipline of a naturopathic doctor by the State Board of Physicians to include being convicted or disciplined by a court of any state or country. | |||
Emergency Pregnancy-Related Conditions | HB0372 | SB0169 | Delegate Lopez | Hospitals - Emergency Pregnancy-Related Medical Conditions - Procedures | First Reading Health | Health | Requiring a hospital to conduct screening on a patient presenting at an emergency department of the hospital to determine whether the patient has an emergency pregnancy-related medical condition; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the treatment and transfer of a patient who has an emergency pregnancy-related medical condition; requiring a hospital to allow the termination of a pregnancy in certain circumstances; etc. | |||
Emergency Pregnancy-Related Conditions | SB0169 | HB0372 | Senator Lam | Hospitals - Emergency Pregnancy-Related Medical Conditions - Procedures | First Reading Finance | Finance | Requiring a hospital to conduct screening on a patient presenting at an emergency department of the hospital to determine whether the patient has an emergency pregnancy-related medical condition; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the treatment and transfer of a patient who has an emergency pregnancy-related medical condition; requiring a hospital to allow the termination of a pregnancy in certain circumstances; etc. | |||
Health Care Quality Stakeholder Advisory Council | SB0240 | Senator Lewis Young | Office of Health Care Quality Stakeholder Advisory Council - Establishment | First Reading Finance | Finance | Establishing the Office of Health Care Quality Stakeholder Advisory Council to provide feedback to the Office of Health Care Quality regarding maintaining oversight of health care facilities and to notify the Secretary of Health if the Office is negligent in providing oversight of health care facilities; and requiring the Advisory Council, beginning in 2027, and by December 1 annually, to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly. | ||||
Nonprofit Organizations Navigator | SB0069 | HB0147 | Senator Kagan | Nonprofit Organizations Navigator - Termination Provision - Repeal | Hearing 1/29 at 3:00 p.m. | Finance | Repealing a termination provision relating to provisions of law establishing a nonprofit organizations navigator within the Department of Commerce; etc. | |||
Nonprofit Organizations Navigator | HB0147 | SB0069 | Delegate Guzzone | Nonprofit Organizations Navigator - Termination Provision - Repeal | First Reading Government, Labor, and Elections | Government, Labor, and Elections | Repealing a termination provision relating to provisions of law establishing a nonprofit organizations navigator within the Department of Commerce. | |||
SHOP Enrollment | SB0014 | HB0273 | Chair, Finance Committee | Health Insurance - Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Enrollment - Effective Dates | Hearing 1/28 at 2:00 p.m. | Finance | Altering the effective dates of enrollment in a Small Business Health Options (SHOP) Exchange plan for individuals who enroll during certain special enrollment periods; etc. | |||
SHOP Enrollment | HB0273 | SB0014 | Chair, Health Committee | Health Insurance - Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Enrollment - Effective Dates | Hearing 1/29 at 2:00 p.m. | Health | Altering the effective dates of enrollment in a Small Business Health Options (SHOP) Exchange plan for individuals who enroll during certain special enrollment periods. | |||
Youth Psychiatric Rehab Parity | HB0071 | Delegate Sample-Hughes | Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program Services - Reimbursement (Youth Psychiatric Rehabilitation Parity Act of 2026) | First Reading Health | Health | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to adopt regulations requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to reimburse a psychiatric rehabilitation program for a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 30 psychiatric rehabilitation community psychiatric support services delivered to certain individuals each month. |
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