2000 Regular Session
DISEASES -see also- AIDS; RABIES
Status of Legislation
Total number of Bills: 40
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Conroy, Love, Pitkin, and McHale
- Entitled
- Health Benefit Plans - Coverage for Hair Prostheses for Hair Loss Resulting from Chemotherapy or Radiation Treatment for Cancer
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Sophocleus
- Entitled
- Criminal Offenders - Contagious Disease or Virus Testing
- Committee
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House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Hixson
- Entitled
- Long-Term Health Consequences of Nasal Radium Irradiation Medical Procedures
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Owings and O'Donnell
- Entitled
- Pensions and Retirement - Accidental Disability Applications
- Committee
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House: Appropriations
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rosso, Busch, Clagett, D'Amato, Frush, Giannetti, Healey, Hurson, Menes, Moe, Guns, Cadden, Sher, Leopold, Hecht, Love, Klausmeier, Weir, Sophocleus, Rzepkowski, Mohorovic, Boschert, Owings, Nathan-Pulliam, and Bartlett
- Entitled
- Institutions of Higher Education - Students - Vaccination for Meningococcal Disease
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Goldwater, Zirkin, Oaks, Mohorovic, Weir, Owings, Hubers, Moe, Hammen, Boutin, Sher, Malone, Hurson, Klausmeier, Redmer, Cane, Eckardt, and Guns
- Entitled
- Health Care Workers' Safety Act - Bloodborne Pathogen Standard
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Kopp, Goldwater, Bronrott, Cryor, Dembrow, Franchot, Heller, Mandel, Menes, and Shriver
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Montgomery County - Suburban Hospital Healthcare System, Inc.
- Committee
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House: Appropriations
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegate D. Davis
- Entitled
- Disease Prevention - Reporting Hepatitis C
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Goldwater, Bronrott, Kopp, and Mandel
- Entitled
- Related Institutions - Immunizations - Influenza Virus and Pneumococcal Disease
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Prince George's County Delegation
- Entitled
- Prince George's County - Correctional Officers - Workers' Compensation PG 318-00
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hurson and Brown
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Discrimination - Specified Diseases or Diagnoses
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Sophocleus, Cadden, Rosso, Love, and Boschert
- Entitled
- Workers' Compensation - Presumption of Occupational Disease - Hepatitis C and Liver Cancer
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Dembrow, Zirkin, Grosfeld, Barkley, Burns, Montague, Griffith, and Menes
- Entitled
- Civil Actions - Limitation on Awards for Noneconomic Damages - Occupational Exposure
- Committee
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House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate D. Davis
- Entitled
- Hepatitis C Education, Prevention, and Screening Act
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Nathan-Pulliam, Montague, A. Jones, Branch, Paige, Dobson, Oaks, Cane, Patterson, Phillips, and V. Jones
- Entitled
- Oral Health Programs - Reducing Oral Cancer Mortality
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Moe, Bozman, Conway, Frush, Glassman, Love, Malone, Menes, Mitchell, O'Donnell, Parrott, Rudolph, Stull, and Walkup
- Entitled
- Emergency Medical Services - Public Safety Personnel - Immunizations
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Cane, Nathan-Pulliam, and Oaks
- Entitled
- Task Force to Study the Health Care Needs of Inmates in Transition from Correctional Institutions
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Conway, Bozman, McClenahan, and Cane
- Entitled
- Infectious Disease Notification - Disclosure of Name of Contagious Deceased Person
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate C. Davis
- Entitled
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Osteoporosis Prevention and Education Program
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rawlings, Busch, Hixson, Dewberry, Hurson, Rosenberg, Cane, Frush, Nathan-Pulliam, Guns, Conway, R. Baker, W. Baker, Branch, Cadden, Hubers, A. Jones, V. Jones, Kagan, Palumbo, Pitkin, Proctor, Stocksdale, and Turner
- Entitled
- Cigarette Restitution Fund Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program - Cancer Prevention, Education, Screening, and Treatment Program
- Committee
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House: Appropriations and Environmental Matters
Senate: Budget and Taxation and Finance
HJ 22
Status as of February 23, 2000: Bill is in the House - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Nathan-Pulliam, Burns, and Dobson
- Entitled
- Task Force on Economic, Racial, and Ethnic Disparities in Health
- Committee
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House: House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Senator DeGrange
- Entitled
- Criminal Offenders - Contagious Disease or Virus Testing
- Committee
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Senate: Judicial Proceedings
SB 15
Status as of January 31, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Ruben (By Request)
- Entitled
- Long-Term Health Consequences of Nasal Radium Irradiation Medical Procedures
- Committee
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Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators DeGrange and Teitelbaum
- Entitled
- Workers' Compensation - Presumption of Occupational Disease - Hepatitis C and Liver Cancer
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Teitelbaum, Hollinger, Dorman, Van Hollen, Ruben, Kelley, McFadden, Pinsky, Mitchell, Exum, Roesser, Green, and Forehand
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Colorectal Cancer Screening - Coverage
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Middleton
- Entitled
- Emergency Medical Services - Public Safety Personnel - Immunizations
- Committee
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Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Frosh, Roesser, Teitelbaum, Forehand, Dorman, Hogan, Ruben, and Van Hollen
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Montgomery County - Suburban Hospital Healthcare System, Inc.
- Committee
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Senate: Budget and Taxation
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Senators McFadden, Conway, Mitchell, and Sfikas
- Entitled
- Evidence - Pulmonary Function Tests for Asbestos Claims - Prohibition on Race-Based Corrections
- Committee
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Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Collins and Bromwell
- Entitled
- Health Benefit Plans - Coverage for Hair Prostheses for Hair Loss Resulting from Chemotherapy or Radiation Treatment for Cancer
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators DeGrange, Teitelbaum, Currie, Astle, Hafer, and Della
- Entitled
- Workers' Compensation - Award Modification - Compensation for Certain Viral Hepatitis
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Della
- Entitled
- Maryland Cancer Registry - Deaths Caused by Cancer
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Hollinger and Harris
- Entitled
- Health Care Workers' Safety Act - Bloodborne Pathogen Standard
- Committee
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Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Hollinger , Harris, and Conway
- Entitled
- Disease Prevention - Reporting Hepatitis C
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Collins
- Entitled
- Institutions of Higher Education - Students - Vaccination for Meningococcal Disease
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
SB 709
Status as of February 16, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Pinsky and Exum
- Entitled
- Mosquito-Borne Diseases - Pesticides - Public Health
- Committee
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Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Pinsky and Exum
- Entitled
- Task Force to Study Mosquito-Borne Public Health Hazards
- Committee
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Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Della
- Entitled
- Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene - Disclosure of Information to Interested Persons
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Lawlah, Kasemeyer, Middleton, Van Hollen, Hoffman, and Neall
- Entitled
- Oral Health Programs - Reducing Oral Cancer Mortality
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Lawlah
- Entitled
- African American Male Oral Cancer Initiative
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Van Hollen, Hoffman, Bromwell, Miller, Lawlah, Neall, Kasemeyer, Madden, Middleton, Currie, Hogan, McFadden, Munson, Ruben, Stoltzfus, Stone, and Teitelbaum
- Entitled
- Cigarette Restitution Fund - Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program - Cancer Prevention, Education, Screening , and Treatment Program
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation and Finance
House: Appropriations and Environmental Matters
