1999 Regular Session
MENTAL HEALTH
Status of Legislation
Total number of Bills: 35
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene)
- Entitled
- Refusal of Psychiatric Medication - Clinical Review Panel
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene)
- Entitled
- Mental Hygiene - Private Therapeutic Group Homes
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene)
- Entitled
- Consent to Mental Health Treatment - Minors
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Donoghue, Shank, and McKee
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Washington County - Washington County Hospital Association
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Cadden, Kopp, Heller, McIntosh, Conway, and Sophocleus
- Entitled
- Local Government Health Funding Incentive Program
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Love, Sophocleus, Baldwin, Nathan-Pulliam, Rzepkowski, Owings, Hurson, Edwards, Hammen, Hubbard, and Krysiak
- Entitled
- Support Services - For-Hire Driving
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hixson, Conroy, Owings, W. Baker, Benson, Hubbard, Dewberry, Cadden, Cane, Heller, McKee, Hurson, and Shriver
- Entitled
- Education - Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Workforce Tuition Assistance Program
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Minnick (Baltimore County Administration) and Delegates Finifter, Morhaim, and Zirkin
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Baltimore County - Hannah More School
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Menes, Hixson, Healey, Benson, Carlson, C. Davis, Frush, Howard, Hubbard, Kopp, Marriott, Patterson, Proctor, and Shriver
- Entitled
- Education - Suspension and Expulsion - Behavioral or Mental Health Assessment
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Frush, Menes, Moe, and Giannetti
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Prince George's County - Laurel Regional Hospital
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Hubbard
- Entitled
- Health Occupations - Professional Counselors - Licensing and Certification
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Montague, Grosfeld, and Love
- Entitled
- Juvenile Justice - Mental Health and Substance Abuse Screening and Assessment
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rosenberg and Oaks
- Entitled
- Community Services Reimbursement Rate Commission
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Grosfeld, R. Baker, Frush, Hubbard, Menes, Moe, Petzold, and Pitkin
- Entitled
- Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund - Time Periods - Compensation
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Hammen
- Entitled
- Medical Assistance - Specialty Mental Health Services - Reimbursement
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Barve, Goldwater, Eckardt, Love, Donoghue, McClenahan, Pendergrass, and Bobo
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Managed Behavioral Health Care Organizations - Quality Measures, Explanations, and Expense Ratios
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Goldwater, Eckardt, Klausmeier, Nathan-Pulliam, Walkup, and Hurson
- Entitled
- Nurse Psychotherapists - Authority to Prescribe Medications
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Donoghue
- Entitled
- Utilization Review - Qualifications of Physicians Making Adverse Decisions
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Rawlings
- Entitled
- State Lottery Commission - Video Lottery Terminals - Revenues and Funding
- Committee
Assignments -
House: House Rules
- Sponsored By
- Senators Stone and Bromwell
- Entitled
- Sexually Violent Predators
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Collins (Baltimore County Administration) and Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Baltimore County - Hannah More School
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Dorman and Madden
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Prince George's County - Laurel Regional Hospital
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Frosh
- Entitled
- Health Care - Surrogate Decision Making - Prohibitions
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Currie, Hogan, Lawlah, McFadden, Middleton, Ruben, and Van Hollen
- Entitled
- Local Government Health Funding Incentive Program
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation and Finance
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Hoffman and Hollinger
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Treatment of Morbid Obesity
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Hollinger, Dorman, Blount, Teitelbaum, Mitchell, Kelley, and Munson
- Entitled
- Education - Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Workforce Tuition Assistance Program
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Ways and Means
SB 368
Status as of February 22, 1999: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator McFadden
- Entitled
- Education - Suspension and Expulsion - Behavioral or Mental Health Assessment
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Munson and Mooney
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Washington County - Washington County Hospital Association
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Green and Kasemeyer
- Entitled
- Juvenile Justice - Mental Health and Substance Abuse Screening and Assessment
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Kasemeyer
- Entitled
- Community Services Reimbursement Rate Commission
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Appropriations
SB 508
Status as of March 22, 1999: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Dorman
- Entitled
- Health Occupations - Professional Counselors - Licensing and Certification
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Van Hollen, Teitelbaum, Hollinger, and Dorman
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Managed Behavioral Health Care Organizations - Quality Measures, Explanations, and Expense Ratios
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- Mental Health Care Providers - Patient's Violent Behavior - Duty to Predict, Warn, or Take Precautions
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Van Hollen and Teitelbaum
- Entitled
- Health Care Professionals - Freedom of Speech and Expression
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Pinsky
- Entitled
- Education - Suspension and Expulsion - Behavioral or Mental Health Assessment
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Ways and Means
