Legislation - HB0825

Title: Brain Health - Guidelines, Grant Fund, and Commemorative Month (Tahjai's Law)
Sponsored by: Delegates Woods, Roberts, Bhandari, Coley, Cullison, Fair, Ghrist, Harrison, Martinez, Patterson, Roberson, Sample-Hughes, Simmons, Stinnett, Taveras, Taylor, and Toles
Status: In the House - First Reading Government, Labor, and Elections and Appropriations
Analysis

Synopsis

Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim the month of May to be Brain Health and Chronic Headache Awareness Month; requiring the proclamation to align with a certain national brain tumor awareness initiative; establishing the Maryland Brain Health Grant Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in collaboration with certain entities, to develop guidelines on brain health screening; and requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill for fiscal 2028 an appropriation of $500,000 for the Fund.

Committees

Original:: Government, Labor, and Elections; Appropriations

Details

Bill File Type: Regular

Effective Date(s): July 1, 2026

Bill imposes a mandated appropriation in the annual State Budget Bill

History

Legislation History
Chamber House Calendar Date 2/04/2026 Legislative Date 2/04/2026 Action First Reading Government, Labor, and Elections and Appropriations Proceedings

Chamber	Calendar Date	Legislative Date	Action	Proceedings
House	2/04/2026	2/04/2026	First Reading Government, Labor, and Elections and Appropriations

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