2000 Regular Session
PHYSICIANS -see also- DENTISTS; MED EXMNRS; PSYCH; etc
Status of Legislation
Total number of Bills: 62
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Taylor, Dewberry, Hurson, Arnick, Busch, Guns, Harrison, Hixson, Howard, Kopp, Menes, Montague, Owings, Rawlings, Rosenberg, Vallario, and Wood
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Responsibility for and Regulation of Downstream Risk
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Cadden, Sophocleus, Rosso, Rzepkowski, Boschert, Leopold, and Love
- Entitled
- Health - Failure to Properly Bury or Dispose of a Body - Penalties
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Morhaim
- Entitled
- Patient Care Advisory Committees - Consultation and Evidentiary Use of Advice
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene)
- Entitled
- Health Occupations - State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Examination and Licensure Requirements
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Murphy, Brinkley, Dembrow, Pendergrass, Montague, Snodgrass, Baldwin, Hecht, and Kagan
- Entitled
- Marijuana - Exceptions for Compassionate Use
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Krysiak , Goldwater, and Brown
- Entitled
- Health Insurance Carriers - Standing Referral to Obstetrician for Pregnancy
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Donoghue
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Subscribers and Enrollees - Private Contracts for Health Care Services
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Goldwater, Eckardt, Sher, Snodgrass, Stull, Hurson, Nathan- Pulliam, Klausmeier, Redmer, and Owings
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Patient Access to Choice of Provider
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Economic Matters Committee (Departmental - Insurance Administration, Maryland)
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Private Review Agents
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Valderrama
- Entitled
- Meridian Regulatory Acupuncture - Physicians
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Barve
- Entitled
- Licensure of Physicians - Qualifications - Postgraduate Training
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Barve, Stern, Mandel, Sher, Goldwater, Barkley, Kopp, Kagan, Carlson, Grosfeld, Petzold, Bronrott, Hixson, Heller, Dembrow, and Cryor
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Requirements for Providers to Serve on Provider Panels
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Goldwater, McHale, Walkup, Krysiak, Love, Kirk, Mandel, Nathan-Pulliam, Pitkin, Eckardt, Griffith, Barve, Kach, Pendergrass, Marriott, and Brown
- Entitled
- Health Insurance Carriers - Standing Referrals to Specialists
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Hubbard
- Entitled
- Hospitals and Related Institutions - Staff Use and Privileges - Certified Nurse Anesthetist
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Griffith, Frush, Hurson, Cane, Owings, Fulton, Sher, Marriott, D. Davis, Oaks, Hubbard, Guns, and Nathan-Pulliam
- Entitled
- Mental Hygiene - Involuntary Admission and Emergency Evaluation - Clinical Social Worker
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hammen, Klausmeier, Boutin, Nathan-Pulliam, Guns, Stern, Morhaim, Frush, Hubbard, Elliott, Schisler, Sher, Redmer, Mohorovic, Cane, Oaks, and Stull
- Entitled
- Nursing Homes - Quality Assurance
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Bobo, Bozman, Glassman, Eckardt, Goldwater, Malone, Moe, Morhaim, Parrott, Pitkin, and Stull
- Entitled
- Health Care Providers - Do Not Resuscitate Orders - Outpatients
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Owings
- Entitled
- Hospitals - Credentialling Process - Health Care Practitioners and Physicians
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate O'Donnell
- Entitled
- Parental Rights Act of 2000
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Kopp, Barve, Barkley, Bronrott, Brown, Goldwater, Heller, Hubbard, Mandel, Menes, and Stern
- Entitled
- Child Abuse and Neglect Diagnosis and Treatment Act of 2000
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Flanagan
- Entitled
- Maryland Health Care Foundation - Medical Malpractice Insurance for Retired Volunteer Physicians Program
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates D. Davis, R. Baker, Oaks, Nathan-Pulliam, and Cane
- Entitled
- Medical Assistance - Program Recipients - Continuity of Care
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates R. Baker, Brown, Valderrama, Proctor, Goldwater, D. Davis, Hubbard, Vallario, Grosfeld, Frush, Hill, and Patterson
- Entitled
- Health Care Credentialing Study
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Senate Rules
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Barve
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Notice of Health Care Providers on Carrier's Provider Panel
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Goldwater and Guns
- Entitled
- Nurse Psychotherapists - Authority to Prescribe Medications in Pro Bono Programs Not Adequately Served by Physician Volunteers
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Goldwater
- Entitled
- State Board of Physicians - Powers and Duties
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Pitkin
- Entitled
- Licensing - Medical Students - Pain Management Course
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rosenberg, Hubbard, Frush, and Morhaim
- Entitled
- In Vitro Services - Embryos and Gametes - Consent and Disposition
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Gordon and Barve
- Entitled
- Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Disposition of Fees
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Shriver
- Entitled
- Education - Early Childhood Literacy - Grants
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs and Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Frush
- Entitled
- Hospitals or Related Institutions - Staff - Licensed Certified Social Workers-Clinical
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Marriott (Baltimore City Administration) and Delegates Rosenberg, Hammen, Hubbard, Klausmeier, and Nathan-Pulliam
- Entitled
- Education - Lead Poisoning Tests - Administering and Reporting
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
HB 1324
Status as of February 21, 2000: Bill is in the House - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Guns and Petzold
- Entitled
- Physician Assistants - Delegation Agreements
- Committee
Assignments -
House: House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hammen and Klausmeier
- Entitled
- Hospitals - Incompetent Patient - Appropriate Placement
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Minnick
- Entitled
- Medical Directors - Regulation by Independent Board
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Baker, Jimeno, and DeGrange
- Entitled
- Criminal Law - Failure of Duty to Report Death - Penalties
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Bromwell
- Entitled
- Health - Reused Single-Use Medical Devices - Patient Consent Required
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
SB 76
Status as of January 31, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Economic and Environmental Affairs Committee (Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene)
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Practice of Medicine - "Telemedicine"
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- Patient Care Advisory Committees - Consultation and Evidentiary Use of Advice
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Conway, Kelley, Blount, Exum, Mitchell, Lawlah, McFadden, Teitelbaum, and Currie
- Entitled
- Arrests - Access to Medical Care and Medication in Confinement
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Finance Committee (Departmental - Insurance Administration, Maryland)
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Private Review Agents
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
SB 250
Status as of February 2, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Hollinger and Bromwell
- Entitled
- Intractable Pain Management Hotline - Board of Physician Quality Assurance
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Roesser, Teitelbaum, Hogan, Ruben, Van Hollen, and Forehand
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Requirements for Providers to Serve on Provider Panels
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Dorman
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Patient Access to Choice of Provider
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Lawlah, Roesser, Hogan, Pinsky, Dorman, Exum, Currie, Green, Baker, Miller, Teitelbaum, Kelley, Hollinger, Hafer, Forehand, Frosh, and Hughes
- Entitled
- Health Care Credentialing Study
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Exum, Bromwell, DeGrange, Della, Dorman, Hooper, and Teitelbaum
- Entitled
- Medical Assistance - Program Recipients - Continuity of Care
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Hollinger, Dorman, Exum, Collins, Della, Ruben, Blount, DeGrange, Forehand, Stone, Van Hollen, Sfikas, Astle, Middleton, Ferguson, Pinsky, Green, Harris, Hoffman, and Teitelbaum
- Entitled
- Practice of Medicine - Definition
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Astle
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Reimbursement of Non-Contracting Providers
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Harris and Mooney
- Entitled
- Abortion after Viability - Prohibition - Penalties
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Teitelbaum, Exum, DeGrange, Hooper, and Hafer
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Notice of Health Care Providers on Carrier's Provider Panel
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Della
- Entitled
- Maryland Cancer Registry - Deaths Caused by Cancer
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hoffman
- Entitled
- Child Abuse and Neglect Diagnosis and Treatment Act of 2000
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Bromwell and Miller
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Responsibility for and Regulation of Downstream Risk
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Dorman, DeGrange, Hooper, Teitelbaum, Exum, Astle, and Della
- Entitled
- Health Insurance Carriers - Standing Referrals to Specialists
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Harris
- Entitled
- Health - General - Advance Directives
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Hollinger, Teitelbaum, and Collins (Task Force on Quality of Care in Nursing Homes)
- Entitled
- Nursing Homes - Quality Assurance
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator McFadden
- Entitled
- Education - Lead Poisoning Tests - Administering and Reporting
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kasemeyer, Collins, Green, Frosh, Forehand, Van Hollen, McFadden, and Roesser
- Entitled
- Education - Early Childhood Literacy - Grants
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs and Budget and Taxation
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Senators Hooper, Haines, Jacobs, Dyson, Stone, and Harris
- Entitled
- Abortion - Minors - Parental Notification
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Della
- Entitled
- Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene - Disclosure of Information to Interested Persons
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Environmental Matters
SB 822
Status as of February 23, 2000: Bill is in the Senate - Re-referred Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Bromwell
- Entitled
- Nurse Psychotherapists - Authority to Prescribe Medications in Pro Bono Programs Not Adequately Served by Physician Volunteers
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Mitchell, Bromwell, Conway, McFadden, Blount, Hughes, Lawlah, Currie, Kelley, and Exum
- Entitled
- Task Force to Study Historic Providers of Health Care Services
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
