2009 End of Session Report

End of Session Final Report 2009

Item Type Annual Report

Authors University of Maryland, Baltimore. Office of Government & Community Affairs

Publication Date 2009

Abstract Summary of actions of the annual sessions of the Maryland General Assembly of particular significance to the University of Maryland, Baltimore community.

Keywords Bills, Legislative--Maryland

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Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10713/2722

2009 END OF SESSION REPORT

Major Actions at the 2009 Session of the Maryland General Assembly

University of Maryland Baltimore Office of Government and Community Affairs

44 West Street Annapolis, Maryland 21401-2421 410-269-5087

www.umaryland.edu

May 2009

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE

Office of Government and Community Affairs 2009 End of Session Report Barbara Klein, Associate Vice President Deborah Neels, Senior Director Government Affairs Melanie Moore, Administrative Coordinator Diane Lopez, Administrative Assistant

We wish to acknowledge the support of the following interns:

School of Social Work School of Pharmacy Adrienne Ellis Claire Leocha Margaret Flanagan Shanna Borell

Office of External Affairs, T. Sue Gladhill, Vice President

For additional information about this report, contact us at: 410-269-5087 www.umaryland.edu

OFFICE OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

April 30, 2009

Members of the Campus Community:

We are pleased to provide you with the 2009 End of Session Report, summarizing major legislative actions of interest to the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) community.

The 426th session of the General Assembly of Maryland convened on January 14, 2009 and adjourned “Sine Die” on Monday, April 13, 2009. Of the nearly 2700 bills introduced, the UMB Office of Government and Community Affairs tracked nearly 800 bills. Representatives from the campus community testified at over 85 hearings during the 90-day session. Of the bills that this office tracked, the legislature passed approximately 250 and these bills are summarized in this report.

The Governor has 30 days after presentment of bills to sign, veto or allow the legislation to become law without his signature. Bill signing dates for legislation that passed at the 2009 Session follow: April 14, 2009, May 7, 2009 and May 19, 2009 (revised date). On the day prior to each scheduled bill signing, the Governor’s office lists the bills to be signed at: www.gov.state.md.us/. Bills summarized throughout this report have an effective date of October 1, 2009, unless otherwise indicated.

This report is organized as follows: • Bill Summaries – Bill descriptions appear by category, such as budget, education, health and human resources; • Appendix I – Lists those individuals from the campus community who testified on legislative matters of importance to UMB; • Appendix II – Significant reporting requirements from the State Operating Budget Bill (HB 100) and State Capital Budget Bill (HB 102); • Appendix III – New task forces and studies which may offer potential appointment opportunities; • Appendix IV – List of significant bills that did not pass at the 2009 Session; • Index – Reference guide to bill summaries.

We extend our most grateful appreciation to our many colleagues throughout the campus community who consistently provide timely and sound advice on legislative matters. We enjoy working with you and hope you find this report useful. If you have questions, please contact us.

Best Regards,

Barbara Klein Associate Vice President

44 West Street • Annapolis, Maryland 21401-2421 • 410 269 5087 • 410 269 1985 fax • www.umaryland.edu DENTISTRY • LAW • MEDICINE • NURSING • PHARMACY • SOCIAL WORK • GRADUATE STUDIES

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2009 END OF SESSION REPORT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Office of Government and Community Affairs Staff for 2009 Session i

Letter of Transmittal iii

Bill Summaries

• Budget - State Operating Budget, State Capital Budget, Academic Revenue Bonds, and Related Legislation 1

• Economic Development and Business - Business Regulation, Economic and Community Development, Insurance, Labor, Technology Development, and Workers’ Compensation 11

• Education - Primary and Secondary Education, and Higher Education 15

• Environment - Agriculture, Environment, and Natural Resources 19

• Health and Human Resources - Children, Developmental Disabilities, Elderly, Health Facilities and Regulation, Health Insurance, HMOs, Health Occupations, Public Health, and Welfare Reform 23

• Public Safety, Judiciary, and Transportation - Courts, Criminal Law and Procedures, Driving Related-Offenses, Emergency Services, Family and Juvenile Law, Judiciary, Public Safety, and Transportation 37

• State and Local Government - Ethics, Election Law, Local Government, Personnel, Pensions, Procurement, Regulations, and State Agencies 41

Appendices

• Appendix I – Testimony and advocacy activities by the University of Maryland, Baltimore campus community at the 2009 Session 45

• Appendix II - Joint Chairmen’s Report (JCR) – Summary of Significant Reporting Requirements from the State Operating Budget (HB 100) and State Capital Budget (HB 102) 53

• Appendix III - Key Bills of Special Interest to the University of Maryland, Baltimore that Require Work Groups, Regulations, Reports, or Waivers 57

• Appendix IV - Significant Bills That Did Not Pass at the 2009 Session 71

Index - Bills Summarized in Report Ordered by Page Number 73

Budget

STATE OPERATING BUDGET

HB 100 - State Operating Budget Bill HB 101 - Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2009

Overview: The global financial crisis dragged the U.S economy into a recession beginning in December 2007. With the international and national economic downturns, driven by both the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the acute crisis in financial markets, the State’s economic and budgetary outlook spiraled downward throughout 2008. As a result, the Governor and Board of Public Works made several rounds of reductions during 2008 to the State operating budget for FY 09, including imposing furloughs on State employees.

As the 2009 Session opened, the Governor and legislature confronted a dire State budget picture, with significant declines in revenue (almost $1.2 billion for fiscal 2009 and 2010) and rapidly increasing needs for social services. However, the passage of the federal stimulus package, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), enabled the Governor to introduce two supplemental budgets recognizing $2.5 billion in federal funds for fiscal 2009 and 2010 to address major budget shortfalls. In finalizing actions on the FY 10 operating budget, $1.4 billion of these new federal funds substituted for State general funds. The reliance on these temporary federal funds poses significant challenges when general funds will be needed to back fill vanishing federal support. Moreover the State continues to face a serious structural imbalance in the magnitude of $2.3 billion for fiscal 2011.

As enacted, the State Operating Budget Bill (HB 100) appropriates $32.3 billion to support the operating and programmatic costs of State government for fiscal 2010 (July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010). Overall the budget grows by 3.5%, because of the significant 21% growth in federal funds. The budget was largely balanced (as required by State Constitution) by relying on federal stimulus funds in lieu of general funds, use of dedicated revenues to support general fund expenditures, and reductions to proposed spending. Of the total $32.3 billion State budget, State general funds support 42.7%, federal funds support 28.8%, special funds support 17.6%, and education funds support 10.3%. The budget relies on the Governor making $38 million in across-the-board general fund reductions to State agencies following the session.

Overall, funding for the University System of Maryland is reduced from the Governor’s request by nearly $6 million, but the legislature intends that undergraduate tuition rates be held level for the fourth straight year. Medicaid funding grows by nearly $200 million with no reduction in services or eligibility. The State will receive a higher federal match for Medicaid in fiscal 2010 which yields over $650 million of new federal funds. No salary increases (except promotions) are permitted for State employees, but HB 101 allows for salary increases to retain faculty. Legislative actions result in an anticipated $100 million fund balance for fiscal 2010 and a $650 million balance in the State’s Rainy Day Fund. The budget assumes $545 million in reductions contingent on passage of HB 101- Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act. The pertinent actions of interest to UMB in HB 100 and HB 101 follow.

Joint Chairmen’s Report (JCR): References below are made to the “JCR” or Joint Chairmen’s Report. The JCR is a document issued by the Chairs of the budget committees, following passage of the State Operating Budget (HB 100 – 2009 Session) and State Capital Budget (HB 102 – 2009 Session). The JCR includes explanations of legislative actions in reducing the Governor’s budget requests, expressions of legislative intent, and requests for studies or reports pertaining to budgetary matters. Appendix II summarizes JCR items of interest to the UMB campus community.

1 University System of Maryland (USM)

• Funding Summary - Due to the fiscal crisis, the Governor and Board of Public Works imposed several rounds of reductions to current year appropriations. These actions resulted in $56 million in reductions to the $1.1 billion of General Fund and Higher Education Fund support for USM for FY 2009.

The Governor’s FY 2010 allowance of $1.103 billion was reduced by $5.9 million, which will be allocated across all USM institutions. Budget language directs that this reduction not reduce the number of students projected to be enrolled. Further an across-the-board reduction will be allocated for cell phone expenditures (of which $400,000 is higher education’s share -HB 100, Section 44). It should be noted that in a supplemental budget, federal stimulus funds replaced the General Funds which support the tuition freeze for undergraduates (freeze continues for the fourth consecutive year).

The Higher Education Investment Fund (HEIF) was re-authorized in HB 101, but only for FY 2010 and these special fund revenues simply replace general funds (yielding no net increase to USM). Legislative intent is expressed to make the HEIF permanent when it is “affordable and fiscally prudent to do so.”

HB 101 contains provisions that eliminate the deferred compensation match and prohibit employee increases for bonuses, merit increases or cost-of-living adjustments, except for increases necessary for the retention of faculty.

• Fund Balance - As agreed to by the conference committee, provisions in HB 101 transfer $29 million from USM fund balance to the State General Fund to help offset projected revenue reductions. Originally, House actions would have transferred $30 million and Senate actions would have transferred $24 million.

• Commission to Develop the Maryland Model for Funding Higher Education - Although separate legislation was not enacted to implement the Commission’s recommendations, HB 101 expresses legislative intent that if it is affordable and fiscally prudent, legislation shall be enacted to adopt the Commission’s recommendations, including a funding model comprised of high State support of higher education, moderate tuition, high State need-based financial aid, and accountability. In collaboration with stakeholders, the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) is to incorporate in the State Plan for Higher Education any of the Commission’s recommendations that do not require legislation and requires a progress report (see Appendix II-JCR pages 160-161).

• Graduate Assistants and Adjunct Faculty – Committee narrative requires USM to convene a work group and report on graduate assistants and adjunct faculty, including their status, efforts to improve their conditions (salaries, benefits, policies and working conditions) and role, and cite any impact of collective bargaining or other options by 11/01/09 (see Appendix II-JCR pages 167-168).

• UM Hagerstown Center - MHEC, in collaboration with USM, is to convene a workgroup to ensure the financial and programmatic success of the center with a report due by 09/01/09 (see Appendix II- JCR page 153).

• Historically Black Institutions (HBIs) - Funds are restricted pending reports on student retention and graduation rates.

2 • Public-Private Partnerships - Section 53 of HB 100 expresses legislative intent to establish a joint legislative and executive work group in the 2009 interim to study public-private partnerships with recommendations for legislation (see Appendix II-JCR page 215). Section 54 of HB 100 requires a report from State agencies, including USM, with a list of all projects where public-private partnerships are under consideration or in any phase of development (see Appendix II-JCR page 215). Also see significant provisions relating to potential capital leases described under HB 102- Capital Budget later in this section.

• Reports/ Policies - Committee narrative requires annual reports on institutional aid by 01/01/10 (see Appendix II-JCR page 151) and faculty instructional workload by 12/01/09 (see Appendix II- JCR page 144). Committee narrative also requires policies from governing boards on the use of public education facilities for displaying obscene materials by September 1, 2009 (see Appendix II- JCR page 167).

University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)

• Funding Summary - As a result of actions by the Board of Public Works, the FY 2009 appropriation of $188.5 million ($179.3 million in General Funds and $9.2 million in Higher Education Investment Funds) was reduced by $2.7 million due to one-time employee furloughs and $6.9 million in permanent cuts, yielding a revised campus base budget of $181.6 million.

The proposed fiscal 2010 appropriation of $186.8 million in General Funds represents an increase of $5.2 million over the revised FY 09 base budget. However, this appropriation level will be reduced by UMB’s share of the $5.9 million reduction to USM (estimated at $1.1 million for UMB) and any across-the-board reduction allocated by the Dept. of Management and Budget (DBM). Further, UMB anticipates that increases in mandatory costs will offset the increase in the campus base budget.

Before the reductions cited above, the budget included funds to support nursing enrollment growth and enhancements, less than 15 year equipment for the School of Pharmacy facility, continued PharmD expansion at Shady Grove, tuition freeze support for undergraduates, and other mandatory costs. To meet anticipated costs, UMB will increase tuition for graduate and professional students and allocate reductions to the schools and administrative units.

• Fund Balance - The provisions in HB 101 to transfer $29 million in USM fund balance to the State General Fund will result in an estimated $5.1 million fund balance transfer from UMB (USM to specify amount).

• $570,500 Grant for the Governor’s Wellmobile Program - This grant budgeted under the Maryland Higher Education Commission remains at the FY 09 level. During budget deliberations, the House had eliminated this grant, but the Senate restored the House cut and the conference committee on the budget maintained the restoration of the grant.

• $100,000 for P3 Diabetes Management Project - DHMH included $100,000 in the budget of the Community and Family Health Administration, which serves as the required State match for the CDC Diabetes grant (which requires a $1 State to $4 federal match). In prior years, the legislature restricted funds in the budget of DHMH to support the P3 Project.

3 • Cigarette Restitution Funded (CRF) Program at the University of Maryland School of Law - The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s (DHMH) “Cigarette Restitution Funds” (CRF) have funded the Legal Resource Center for Tobacco Regulation, Litigation, and Advocacy. FY 10 funding for the program is uncertain because the Tobacco Use, Prevention and Cessation Program was cut by 69%. The funding for FY 09 was $367,500.

University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS)

• $3,200,000 - Shock Trauma subsidy - A $3 million grant (allocated under the Maryland Emergency Medical System Operations Fund (MEMSOF) to be disbursed by the Maryland Health Care Commission) helps offset the costs associated with uncompensated care and stand-by costs from the center’s emergency services. Additionally a grant of $200,000 is budgeted now under the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems to help support research and educational program costs incurred by the Shock Trauma Center (STC).

• $750,000 – Kernan Hospital subsidy -This State support is budgeted in the Family Health Administration (DHMH) and is to support debt service relating to the construction of the rehabilitation center, which houses the former Montebello Rehabilitation Center population.

• Uncompensated Care – Shock Trauma Center - The STC was previously excluded from the Uncompensated Care (U/C) Fund. The STC historically experiences a high level of uncompensated care (the HSCRC calculated the rate at 14.2% higher than the State average). This payment is expected to be $20.7 million in 2009, but will lower the hospital’s rates accordingly. Uncompensated care at Kernan also is supported through the U/C Fund with rates reduced accordingly.

University of Maryland Medical Group (UMMG)

• $9.5 million - The University of Maryland Medical Group (UMMG), as specified in law only for purposes of Cigarette Restitution Funds (CRF), consists of the University of Maryland Medical System, University of Maryland, Baltimore, and University of Maryland School of Medicine. Due to severe State budgetary constraints, the fiscal 2009 CRF monies for UMMG were reduced by actions of the Governor and Board of Public Works from $14.1 million to $9.5 million. The funds were diverted to support Medical Assistance expenditures. HB 101 provides that this reduced funding level continues through FY 11, before returning to the mandated funding level from FY 05 (or $14.1 million). This is the tenth year of funding from the CRF.

UMMG is eligible for four grants:

o $5.1 million Cancer Research Grant;

o $1.9 million Statewide Network Grant;

o $1.3 million Tobacco-Related Diseases Research Grant; and

o $1.2 million Baltimore City Public Health Grant.

4 Other Significant Operating Budget Actions - Appropriations shown below are not final due to across- the-board cuts, yet to be allocated among State agencies.

• Department of Health & Mental Hygiene (DHMH)

o Oral Health - Beginning July 1, 2009, dental services will be carved out of the HealthChoice Medicaid managed care program, with dental services provided through a fee-for-service program and administered by a single vendor under contract with the State. The additional funding of $1.6 million that was provided in FY 09 to increase provider capacity in local public health clinics is included in the fiscal 2010 appropriation. The sunset was repealed on the Oral Health Safety Net Program (SB 63) that supports this funding. DHMH is required to submit an annual report on the program.

o Mental Health Services

1. Walter P. Carter Community Mental Health Center - The budget bill adds legislative intent regarding the preservation of mental health and substance abuse services either at the facility or elsewhere in Baltimore City and withholds funds pending receipt of a report by 12/15/09 on the proposed changes. The University of Maryland School of Medicine is required to report by 01/15/10 on the two community mental health programs which the faculty support (see Appendix II-JCR pages 86-87).

2. Substance Abuse - The budget authorizes the transfer of $3.3 million to Medicaid to expand substance abuse treatment services to the Primary Adult Care (PAC) Program and enhance rates for Medicaid substance abuse services effective 01/01/10.

o Medical Assistance Program

1. Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) - The budget bill directs the Maryland Insurance Administration to undertake and report by 12/01/10 on a market conduct study and financial compliance examination of all HealthChoice MCOs, including payment practices, actuarial reimbursement rates, and compliance with medical loss ratios (see Appendix II-JCR page 93). Cost containment actions reduced MCO rates for CY 2009 from an increase of 5.5% to an increase of 4.3%.

2. Physician and Dental Rates – Medicaid reimbursement rates for physicians and dentists were level funded for FY 10 (except as reduced by the other items in this section shown below). Fiscal 2010 was to be the first year that 100% of the revenues in the Rate Stabilization Fund (generated from the 2% premium tax on HMOs and MCOs) were to be dedicated solely to provider rates. This should have resulted in a total increase of $22 million ($11 million special funds and $11 million federal funds) in physician rates. However, the revenues were diverted to support Medicaid expenditures. For 2009, on average, Medicaid fees for physicians represented 89% of Medicare fees for physicians. In fiscal 2009, $14 million in total funds were used to increase Medicaid rates for dentists. The Governor was to include another $14 million in both fiscal 2010 and 2011 to increase Medicaid fees for dentists. However, the funds were not provided due to the fiscal constraints on the State budget

5 3. False Claims Act/ Hospital Day Limits/ Reduced Physician Rates – As introduced, the budget was based on the assumption that $22 million would be generated from enactment of the bills relating to false claims (HB 304 or SB 272 and HB 1476), which would bring Maryland in line with federal law. However, the legislation failed in the Senate. The Administration introduced a supplemental budget which included a contingency provision that imposes Medicaid day limits on hospitals (with $20 million in reduced hospital Medicaid expenditures) and reduces physician rates ($9 million), unless the False Claims legislation passed. The legislation was not enacted, so these reductions are effective for fiscal 2010.

4. Bon Secours – The budget bill authorizes up to $5 million of provider reimbursement funding to provide a one-time operating grant to Bon Secours Hospital, Baltimore. The grant may only be provided pending a report by the Board of Directors with a long-term sustainable solution to the hospital’s financial issues, including expanded primary care access, improved mental health services, and substance abuse services (see Appendix II-JCR pages 95-96).

5. Long-Term Care – Requires a report by 01/01/10 on long-term reform options and implications for the State Medicaid program in developing coordinated care programs (see also HB 113 / SB 761 and Appendix II-JCR page 98).

6. Medicaid Eligibility – Narrative expresses legislative intent that eligibility continue at the July 1, 2008 level for as long as the increased federal matching rate is available.

7. Incentive Payments and “Never Events” – Requires a report by 12/01/09 on plans to provide incentive payments to long-term care facilities and community providers to reward quality care and on a policy under development with the HSCRC of not reimbursing hospitals for “never events” or hospital acquired conditions.

8. Update on Medicaid Expansion - Requires a report by 11/01/09 on the FY 09 Medicaid expansion to parents with incomes up to 116% of the Federal Poverty Guideline (FPG), including details on enrollment, costs, demographics, and reconciliation with hospitals of averted uncompensated care savings (see Appendix II-JCR page 99). Narrative also expresses legislative intent that the phasing-in of full Medicaid benefits to childless adults continue when funding permits (benefits were to be fully phased-in by FY 13).

9. Enrollment Barriers – Requires a report by 11/01/09 after consultation with stakeholders on options to reduce enrollment barriers at the community level, including outstation eligibility workers and compliance with federal requirements (see Appendix II-JCR page 100).

10. E/R Diversion – Includes $732,000 in federal funds in a supplemental budget item for the development of Emergency Room Diversion Pilot Projects.

• Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC)

o HEIF Workforce Initiatives - Appropriates $1.5 million in grants to assist higher education institutions with program development and implementation initiatives to meet State needs relating to BRAC.

6 o Financial Aid Programs - Funding for fiscal 2010 includes: Graduate and Professional School Scholarship Program at $1.5 million; Loan Assistance Repayment Program (LARP) at $2.7 million for the existing program; Workforce Shortage Student Assistance Grants at $4.0 million; Nurse Support Program II at $13.9 million; and the Health Personnel Shortage Incentive Grant Program at $400,000.

• Maryland Emergency Management Systems Operations Fund (MEMSOF)

o Trauma and Specialty Referral Centers - Requires the Maryland Health Care Commission, with MIEMSS, to evaluate the network of centers and make recommendations to add or consolidate trauma centers (see Appendix II-JCR page 104).

• Business and Economic Development

o Stem Cell Research Funds - Appropriates $15.4 million (instead of the $18 million the Governor had requested) in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) budget for research and development at Maryland research institutions or private companies.

o Biotechnology Initiatives 1. Biotechnology Center - The fiscal 2010 budget includes funds for the newly created “Maryland Biotechnology Center,” designed to be a one-stop shop serving as a central repository of statewide resources for area biotechnology companies. The fiscal 2010 budget contains about $2 million in grant funds to establish a Biotechnology Development Program, including Institutional grants, Young Investigator grants, and Biotechnology “PUSH” grants.

2. Nano-Biotechnology - Appropriates $500,000 for fiscal 2010 for the grant to the University System of Maryland. The Governor had requested $1 million.

3. Maryland Biotechnology Tax Credits – Appropriates $6 million, but restricts funds until a report is submitted detailing the goals, objectives, and outcomes measures for the program (see Appendix II-JCR pages 176-177).

STATE CAPITAL BUDGET

HB 102 – Creation of a State Debt – Maryland Consolidated Capital Loan (GO debt)

HB 102, the State Capital Budget, authorizes $1.1 billion in General Obligation (GO) debt, of which nearly $135 million is allocated for USM projects. School construction (elementary and secondary education) projects consume about $266 million in GO support.

HB 598 - Academic Facilities Bonding Authority (ARBs)

This departmental bill authorizes the use of $27.0 million in academic revenue bonds (ARBs) to finance specified construction, renovation, and renewal projects at University System of Maryland (USM) campuses. It includes $17.0 million for facilities renewal projects within the USM System Office; $9.0 million for the new Fine and Performing Arts Building at Bowie State University; and $1.0 million for the new College of Liberal Arts Complex at Towson University. The bill takes effect June 1, 2009.

University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)

• $13,756,305 - School of Pharmacy Addition and Renovation: The campus had requested $16,362,000, but the legislature has “deferred” the difference of $2,605,695 until the 2011 session. The funding is to equip the new addition and renovation of the existing facility. The total capital funding requested for this project is $85.8 million, consisting of $75.8 million in GO bonds, $5 million in Academic Revenue bonds, and $5 million in non-budgeted funds.

• $2.5 million – USM Facilities Renewal: o 737 West Lombard Building HVAC Replacement (Phase I) - $675,000; o Fire Alarm System Upgrades and replacements - Campus-wide - $990,000; and o Medical School Teaching Facility – Electrical Distribution System Upgrade (Phase I) - $850,000.

University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS)

• R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center (STC): To provide a grant to UMMS of $13.5 million from GO bonds to assist in the design, renovation and equipping of the STC. The project began in FY 07 and continues through FY 11, at an expected total cost of $83.4 million. A total of $37.5 million is expected from State support.

• Additionally, since UMMS is not pursuing the proposed “Ambulatory Care Center,” $15 million of GO bonds previously awarded were de-authorized. However, a State grant of $15 million from GO bonds will support a new 125,000 square foot building that will connect the STC and the Weinberg Building at the corner of Penn and Lombard Street. Total project cost is $150 million from FY 09 through FY 14, of which $50 million is the expected State share.

Other Capital Budget Provisions

• Commission to Develop the Maryland Model for Funding Higher Education – Budget committee narrative urges MHEC, in collaboration with higher education institutions, to implement the Commission's recommendations, including an assessment of costs of meeting all facility space needs at public campuses and the capital priorities of the HBIs to ensure alignment with undergraduate and doctoral program needs and also urges the Governor to accelerate HBI capital projects (see Appendix II-JCR page 271).

• Public-Private Partnerships - Section 13 of HB 102 restricts any State agency for fiscal 2010 from entering into a public-private partnership for a capital project, unless the agency submits a preliminary project plan (30 days prior to solicitation), a financing plan (45 days prior to a master development agreement), and until the State Treasurer, Comptroller and bond rating agencies have determined if the project is a capital lease and subject to debt affordability limits (see Appendix II- JCR page 339).

• Satellite Law Center – Committee narrative requires USM to study the feasibility, costs and benefits of satellite law center of the University of Baltimore in Prince George's County at an existing regional higher education center (see Appendix II-JCR page 267).

8 Other Approved Capital Projects

• University System of Maryland Institutions

o College Park – Maryland Fire & Rescue Institute - $7,700,000;

o College Park – Maryland Physical Sciences Complex –Phase I - $4,618,000;

o College Park – University of Maryland Enterprise Corporation to relocate UMCP operations (first of 5-year program - $5,000,000;

o Bowie – Campus-wide Site Improvements - $3,237,000;

o Bowie – New Fine & Performing Arts Complex - $25,028,00 (GO) and $9,000,000 (ARB);

o Towson – New College of Liberal Arts Complex - $34,725,000 (GO) and $1,000,000 (ARB);

o Coppin – Science & Technology Center - $9,745,000

o Coppin – Data Centers Expansion - $2,371,000;

o University of Baltimore – New Law School - $5,416,000; and

o USM Facility Renewal - $17,000,000 (ARBs).

• Other Higher Education Institutions

o St. Mary’s – Anne Arundel Hall Reconstruction - $1,685,000;

o Morgan – Campus-wide Utilities Upgrade - $5,264,000;

o Morgan – Campus-wide Site Improvements - $6,321,000;

o Morgan – Lillie Carroll Jackson Museum - $2,763,000;

o Morgan – New Center for Built Environment - $27,370,000;

o Morgan – New School of Business Complex - $942,794;

o Baltimore International College – Culinary Arts Center - $3,000,000;

o College of Notre Dame of MD – Knott Science Center - $3,500,000;

o Capitol College – Innovation & Leadership Institute - $2,500,000; and

o Community Colleges - $88,332,000.

9 • Other Hospital Projects

o Johns Hopkins – Cardiovascular and Medicine Critical Care - $7,000,000;

o Johns Hopkins – Pediatric Trauma Center - $10,000,000;

o Kennedy Krieger Institute – Clinical Research Building & Inpatient Clinical Care - $2,000,000;

o Kennedy Krieger Institute – Pediatric Inpatient - $600,000;

o Sinai Hospital – Samuelson Children’s Hospital - $2,500,000;

o Sinai Hospital – Post Anesthesia - $260,000;

o Calvert Memorial – Emergency Department - $800,000;

o Civista Medical – Dialysis Center – 90,000;

o Upper Chesapeake – Residential Hospice - $600,000;

o Howard County General – Progressive Care - $250,000;

o Chester River Hospital – Pharmacy - $330,000;

o St Mary’s Hospital – Medical Surgical Unit - $1,800,000; and

o Atlantic General – Pharmacy - $270,000.

• Revitalization Projects

o Westside Revitalization – $2,000,000;

o Park Heights Redevelopment – $1,500,000; and

o East Baltimore Biotechnology Park - $5,000,000.

10 Economic Development and Business

To view a specific bill, go to the Maryland General Assembly website at: http://mlis.state.md.us/#bill and enter the bill number (i.e., SB 257). See Appendix III of this report for reporting requirements and/or task force opportunities related to these bills.

HB 200 Maryland Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act

This emergency bill updates standards for the management and investment of charitable funds and endowment spending and includes provisions concerning: management and investment conduct; expenditure or accumulation of endowment funds, including elimination of the concept of historic dollar value; a rebuttable presumption of imprudence for expenditure in any year of an amount greater than 7% of the fair market value of an endowment fund and a requirement that the Attorney General be notified in certain circumstances; delegation of management and investment functions; release or modification of a restriction; and standards for the modification of a charitable purpose or restriction on the use of an institutional fund. This bill applies to institutional funds existing on or established after the date of enactment (April 14, 2009). With respect to funds existing on the date of enactment, it only governs decisions made or actions taken on or after that date.

HB 242 Unemployment Insurance Benefits - Determination Based on Severance or Dismissal Payments

This bill specifies that all severance and dismissal payments are deductible from unemployment insurance benefits, regardless of whether the unemployment is a result of job abolition. This bill takes effect June 1, 2009 and applies to all claims filed on or after June 7, 2009.

HB 268 Welfare to Work - Job Skills Enhancement Program - Green Jobs

This bill requires the Dept. of Management and Budget (DBM), with the assistance of the Dept. of Human Resources (DHR), to develop and implement a plan to hire Family Investment Program (FIP) recipients, children of current or former recipients, foster youth, and child support obligors. The bill also establishes that current job skills enhancement programs within FIP must target job training for these individuals for employment in energy and environmental industries and construction. This bill takes effect July 1, 2009.

HB 288 / SB 368 Lilly Ledbetter Civil Rights Restoration Act of 2009

These bills specify that an unlawful employment practice with respect to discrimination in compensation occurs when (1) a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice is adopted; (2) an individual becomes subject to a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice; or (3) an individual is affected by the application of a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice. The bills mirror the federal Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.

11 HB 292 / SB 269 Financial Institutions - Mortgage Lenders and Mortgage Loan Originators

These Administration bills revise the State’s mortgage lender and mortgage loan originator laws to conform to federal Secure and Fair Enforcement Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008. The bills take effect July 1, 2009.

HB 300 / SB 274 Tax Increment Financing and Special Taxing Districts - Transit-Oriented Development

These bills authorize certain local governments to finance the costs of infrastructure improvements located in or supporting a Transit Oriented Development (TOD), including the cost for operation and maintenance of infrastructure improvements, under their authority to create special taxing districts and to levy ad valorem taxes and issue bonds and other obligations. These bills take effect June 1, 2009.

HB 310 / SB 270 Unemployment Insurance - Eligibility - Part-Time Work

These emergency Administration bills make an individual whose availability to work is restricted to part-time work eligible for unemployment benefits, if the individual works predominantly throughout the year on a part-time basis for at least 20 hours per week. These bills take effect upon enactment.

HB 393 / SB 670 Discrimination in Employment - Expansion of Disability Rights

These bills expand the definition of a disability to include a record of having a physical or mental impairment or being regarded as having a physical or mental impairment.

HB 438 Joint Information Technology and Biotechnology Committee - Membership and Duties

This bill repeals the Joint Technology Oversight Committee and establishes and codifies the Joint Information Technology and Biotechnology Committee. The duties of the reconstituted committee are to broaden the support, knowledge, and awareness of information technology and biotechnology.

HB 493 / SB 800 Biotechnology Investment Incentive Tax Credit

These bills clarify several provisions related to the existing biotechnology investment tax credit program, accelerate applicability of recently enacted changes to the program, and alter the time period in which the credit can be recaptured. These bills take effect July 1, 2009.

HB 498 Professional Service Corporations - Corporate Names - Approval by Professional Organizations

This bill exempts a professional corporation in which a majority of the stockholders are physicians licensed by the State Board of Physicians from the requirement for the corporate name to contain the surname of one or more stockholders of the corporation.

12 HB 544 / SB 364 Real Property - Mechanic's Lien - Certified Interior Design Services

These bills authorize the establishment of a mechanic’s lien for interior design services that pertain to interior construction and are provided by a certified interior designer.

HB 921 / SB 958 Construction Permits - Expiration Dates

These bills extend through June 30, 2010, the duration of approved State, county, and municipal permits for proposed construction and development that were approved on or after January 1, 2008. The bills also establish a reporting requirement.

HB 1124 Coordinating Emerging Nanobiotechnology Research in Maryland Program - Public- Private Partnerships

This bill requires the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) to foster public-private partnerships as feasible to carry out the purpose of the Coordinating Emerging Nanobiotechnology Research in Maryland (CENTR Maryland). The purpose of the CENTR Maryland Program is to support advanced nanobiotechnology research at higher education institutions and promote Maryland as a key location for private-sector firms in the industry.

HB 1192 / SB 556 State Funding Accountability Act

These bills require certain grantors that provide State aid to submit an annual report to the DBM by September 1. Grantor reports must contain the following information: the name, address, and zip code of each grantee that received State aid from the grantor during the previous fiscal year; the amount of any State aid provided to the grantee; and a description of the State aid provided to the grantee. State aid does not include reimbursement to providers participating in a state program. These bills take effect June 1, 2009.

HB 1429 Business and Economic Development - BRAC Community Enhancement Act

This bill changes the effective date of a 10-year BRAC Revitalization and Incentive Zone from the date DBED designates a zone to the date the first property becomes a qualified. The annual date by which local jurisdictions must notify the State Department of Assessments and Taxation (SDAT) regarding qualified properties is changed from November 1 to February 1, and the annual date that SDAT calculates payments to local jurisdictions is changed from December 1 to March 1. This bill takes effect June 1, 2009, and shall be applicable to all BRAC Zones designated after October 1, 2008.

HB 1526 Workforce Development - Maryland Workforce Corporation

This departmental bill establishes the Maryland Workforce Corporation (MWC) as an instrumentality of the State. The purpose of the MWC is to work with State agencies to develop a plan and framework for workforce development and training programs; secure public and private funds for the programs; contract with training providers to conduct education and skills training programs; and evaluate the effectiveness of the programs it develops. The Chancellor of USM is included on the Board of Directors. This bill takes effect July 1, 2009.

14 Education

To view full text of these bills go to http://mlis.state.md.us/#bill and under “Bill Number ” enter the bill number, such as HB 1 or SB 1. See Appendix III of this report for reporting requirements and/or taskforce opportunities related to these bills.

HB 85 / SB 183 College Textbook Competition and Affordability Act of 2009

These bills require public institutions of higher education to develop specific practices and processes relating to textbook selection, adoption and disclosure. An institution of higher education must post specific ISBNs on their web site within specified timeframes. Requirements for the disclosure of specific information about textbooks also are established for publishers and institutions of higher education. Publishers and campus bookstores are required to provide and sell textbooks and supplemental materials in the same manner as selected and ordered by faculty; however, with the permission of the faculty member, a campus bookstore may sell lower-cost options. Publishers are required to make bundled materials available separately, each separately priced. The bills also establish reporting requirements for public institutions of higher education, the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC), and the University System of Maryland (USM). These bills take effect July 1, 2009.

HB 120 / SB 140 Task Force to Study How to Improve Financial Literacy in the State - Membership, Staffing, and Extension

These bills add the Treasurer and DLLR to the task force and extend its reporting date to December 1, 2009, and its termination date to June 30, 2010. These bills take effect June 1, 2009.

HB 306 / SB 257 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children

This Administration bill adds Maryland to the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to facilitate the transfer of children in military families among schools in different states. These bills take effect July 1, 2009.

HB 538 / SB 372 Foster Care - Tuition Exemption - Expanded Eligibility

These bills expand eligibility for tuition and fee waivers for public institutions of higher education in Maryland to younger siblings of foster care recipients who have been adopted by the same family. The bill also expands eligibility to foster care recipients who were adopted from an out-of-home placement after their thirteenth, rather than fourteenth, birthday.

HB 710 / SB 802 Higher Education - Edward T. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program – Alterations

These bills authorize eligible postsecondary institutions, rather than the Office of Student Financial Aid in MHEC, to determine eligibility and award scholarships under the Edward T. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program.

15 HB 714 / SB 627 Loan Assistance Repayment and Practice Assistance for Physicians

These bills alter the eligibility for the Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program (LARP), by removing primary care physicians from the program (currently known as the LARP-PCS program) and establishing a separate Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program (MLARP) for physicians. The bills also create a Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program Fund, consisting of revenue generated through an increase to the rate structure of all hospitals in the State or any other funds from any other source. Funding is contingent on HSCRC implementing a surcharge on hospitals. The bills set program eligibility, prioritize funding for loan repayment, and specify the role of DHMH in identifying additional physician shortages. By December 1, 2009, MHCC and the Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED) must report on the feasibility of expanding State development programs to physicians. These bills take effect July 1, 2009.

HB 937 Higher Education - Student Financial Assistance - Retention of Unused Funds

This bill requires State scholarship and grant money retained in the State budget at the end of a fiscal year to be used to make awards to students during subsequent fiscal years under the Edward T. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program and in the Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraqi Conflicts Scholarship in addition to need-based scholarship programs already specified. This bill takes effect July 1, 2009.

HB 948 Higher Education - Part-Time Grant Program – Eligibility

This bill reduces the number of semester hours required to qualify for the Part-Time Grant Program from six credits to three credits.

HB 1264 / SB 879 Gwendolyn Britt Student Health and Fitness Act

These bills authorize local school systems to develop and implement wellness policy plans with the support of the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE). The bills also require MSDE to establish an Advisory Council on Health and Physical Education to develop and coordinate programs.

HB 1403 State Plan for Higher Education Quadrennial Review - Reporting Date

This emergency bill extends the deadline by which MHEC must submit a quadrennial review of the State Plan for Higher Education from July 1, 2008 to July 1, 2009, and by July 1 of each fourth year thereafter. This bill takes effect upon enactment.

HB 1404 Higher Education - Children of Fallen State or Local Public Safety Employees - Exemption from Nonresident Tuition

This bill requires that children of certain State or local public safety employees killed in the line of duty be exempt from paying nonresident tuition at a public institution of higher education. The bill also requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education, in consultation with MHEC, to adopt policies to implement this exemption. This bill takes effect July 1, 2009.

16 HB 1435 Higher Education - Enforcement Powers of Maryland Higher Education Commission and Secretary of Higher Education

This departmental bill authorizes MHEC to issue a cease and desist order, issue a notice of violation, and impose a penalty of up to $5,000 to an institution of postsecondary education operating without a required certificate of approval. Acting through the Attorney General, MHEC may seek an injunction or other judicial remedy against such institutions.

HB 1465 Maryland National Guard Tuition Assistance Program

This bill expands the types of courses for which the Military Department may provide tuition assistance to include graduate and professional credit courses. A member who receives assistance under this bill for an undergraduate credit, vocational-technical, or trade course is required to remain an active member for at least two years following the completion of the course. A member who receives assistance for a graduate or professional credit course is required to remain an active member for at least four years following the completion of the course. This bill takes effect July 1, 2009.

SB 689 High Schools and High School Students - Options for Accelerated Graduation

This bill requires MSDE to study and report on the feasibility of establishing “middle college programs” for students in Maryland. A middle college is a secondary school authorized to grant diplomas in its own name, which is located on a college campus and allows students to take college courses while also taking high school courses. In addition, the bill requires MSDE to implement a credit-by-examination process for English 12 and Algebra II by the 2010-2011 school year. This bill takes effect July 1, 2009.

18 Environment

HB 154 / SB 212 Environment - Green Building Council

These bills permanently renew the Green Building Council’s original charge and require that it also provide annual recommendations for expanding green building in the State.

HB 259 Environmental Health Monitoring and Testing - Reimbursement of Costs

This bill requires persons responsible for violations of certain provisions of the Environment Article to reimburse MDE or a county for costs incurred in conducting certain tests related to the release of a hazardous substance, discharge of oil, or discharge of a pollutant to the waters of the State.

HB 294 / SB 273 Smart, Green, and Growing - Local Government Planning - Planning Visions

These Administration bills amend the State’s planning visions and require local planning commissions to take these visions into consideration when developing specified planning documents.

HB 295 / SB 276 Smart, Green, and Growing - Annual Report - Smart Growth Goals, Measures, and Indicators and Implementation of Planning Visions

These Administration bills make administrative and substantive changes to law governing the annual report that local planning commissions must prepare. Specifically, the bills make the annual report requirement applicable to charter counties and Baltimore City. The more substantive changes made by the bills involve the establishment of land use goals and the inclusion in the annual report of measures and indicators to demonstrate compliance with the land use goals.

HB 297 / SB 280 Smart, Green, and Growing - Smart and Sustainable Growth Act of 2009

These Administration bills overturn the Court of Appeals ruling in Terrapin Run by requiring that specified actions taken by local governments, including the granting of a special exception, must be “consistent with” their local comprehensive plans. In addition, the bills expressly require local jurisdictions to enact, adopt, amend, and execute a comprehensive plan. Lastly, the bills require members of local government planning commissions and boards of appeal to complete an educational course on the role of the comprehensive plan, proper standards for special exceptions and variances as applicable, and the jurisdiction’s own land use ordinances and regulations.

19 HB 312 / SB 271 Aquaculture - Shellfish – Leasing

These Administration bills implement several recommendations from the Maryland Shellfish Aquaculture Plan to develop a sustainable fisheries industry while creating opportunity for prospective shellfish growers to establish aquaculture businesses in Maryland waters.

HB 315 / SB 278 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act of 2009

These Administration bills require the State to develop plans, adopt regulations, and implement programs to reduce Green House Gases (GHG) by 25% from 2006 levels by 2020. The bills require an academic study of the economic impact of the GHG emissions reductions on the manufacturing sector, with oversight provided by a newly created task force. The bills require several reports on the need for, and progress toward, the 2020 GHG reduction goal and any additional goal later prescribed by law. The goal to reduce GHG emissions 25% below 2006 levels by 2020 terminates on December 31, 2016.

HB 595 State Government - Recycling Program - Aluminum, Glass, Paper, and Plastic

This bill requires State agencies to include in their recycling plan, a system for recycling aluminum, glass, paper, and plastic. It also must include the placement of collection bins in State-owned or State-operated buildings in locations where it is practical and economically feasible. The plans must be implemented by each agency by January 1, 2012.

HB 1078 / SB 47 Environment - Permit Applications - Notice Requirements

These bills require MDE to post notice of applications for certain permits on the department’s web site and also requires MDE to provide a method for interested persons to electronically request additional notices related to particular permit applications.

HB 1569 / SB 1065 Standing - Miscellaneous Environmental Protection Proceedings and Judicial Review

These bills provide that the federal tests for standing be used to determine whether a party may contest a determination by MDE or Board of Public Works (BPW) on the issuance, denial, renewal, or revision of certain permits and licenses. Petitions for judicial review must be filed with the circuit court for the county where the permit application states that the proposed activity will occur.

SB 69 Vehicle Laws - Air-Conditioning Equipment Specifications and Requirements

This departmental bill replaces the ban on toxic or flammable motor vehicle air-conditioning refrigerants with a new standard that incorporates by reference federal environmental regulations prohibiting ozone- depleting refrigerants.

20 SB 625 Maryland Building Performance Standards - Energy Conservation and Efficiency

This bill requires the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to adopt the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) and to consider changes to the International Building Code (IBC) to enhance energy conservation and efficiency before adopting a subsequent version of the Maryland Building Performance Standard (MBPS). The bill also requires that local governments implement and enforce the most current MBPS and any modifications within 6 months of adoption by the State.

22 Health and Human Resources

HB 20 Intellectual Disability (Rosa's Law)

This bill replaces the term “mental retardation” with “intellectual disability” in the State code. All related references are also replaced.

HB 26 Public Schools - Children with Anaphylactic Allergies - Reduction of Risk

This bill requires a principal to take steps to reduce the risk of student exposure to anaphylactic causative agents. The principal must designate a nut-free table in the cafeteria and establish procedures for self- administration of medication by a student. The bill also limits the liability of school staff who respond in good faith to a student having an anaphylactic allergic reaction.

HB 41 / SB 173 Health Insurance - Mandated Benefits - Hospitalization and Home Visits Following a Mastectomy

These bills require insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and HMOs to provide coverage for a minimum 48-hour inpatient hospital stay following a mastectomy. Carriers may not deny, limit, or impair the participation of physicians under contract with the carrier for advocating the interest of mastectomy patients, including lengthier inpatient stays or additional home visits.

HB 70 Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Commissions, Programs, and Reports – Revision

This bill repeals a number of commissions, councils, programs, and task forces and consolidates a number of reports as a result of Chapter 253 of 2008 that required the Secretary of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) to review the department for purposes of streamlining and consolidating functions found to be duplicative or unnecessary.

HB 76 Hepatitis C Virus - Public Awareness and Outreach - Sunset Extension

This bill extends the termination date and reporting requirements for DHMH to conduct outreach and public awareness campaigns regarding the hepatitis C virus (HCV). This bill takes effect July 1, 2009.

HB 93 / SB 305 Mortality and Quality Review Committee - Sunset Extension and Membership

These bills extend the termination date for the Mortality and Quality Review Committee to December 31, 2012 and alter the membership to include the Deputy Secretary of Behavioral Health and Disabilities.

23 HB 113 / SB 761 Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Long-Term Care Supports and Services - Report

These bills require DHMH to study the feasibility of creating a coordinated care program to reform Medicaid long-term care services to meet the differing needs of seniors and adults with disabilities. In addition, the bills require DHMH to convene a stakeholder group, including providers with expertise in dementia, geriatric and end-of-life care, to evaluate and report recommendations. These bills take effect July 1, 2009.

HB 119 Children's Products Containing Lead – Modifications

This emergency bill alters the definition of a child, for purposes of regulating lead-containing children’s products, to include individuals younger than age 13. The bill also incorporates the federal Consumer Product Safety Act of 2008 into the State’s framework for the regulation of children’s products containing lead. This bill takes effect upon enactment.

HB 141 Insurance - Insurer Provider Panels - Health Care Providers

This departmental bill prohibits an insurer from using an insurer provider panel if the provider contract requires a provider to participate on the insurer provider panel as a condition of participating on a health maintenance organization (HMO) or non-HMO provider panel. An entity arranging an insurer provider panel must provide a health care provider with a schedule of applicable fees for up to the 50 most common services billed by a provider in that specialty at the time of contract, 30 days prior to a change, or upon request. This bill closes a loophole regarding a health care provider’s ability to opt out of providing services under personal injury protection or workers’ compensation services, as well as to obtain all relevant fee schedules applicable to their specialty from all insurers.

HB 142 Insurance - Antifraud Plans

This bill extends the requirement for specific procedures to prevent and report insurance fraud to third- party administrators. In addition, the bill authorizes insurers to require individuals receiving disability benefits to periodically affirm that they remain entitled to the benefits.

HB 144 / SB 421 Social Services Administration and Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Parents Responsible for Child Abuse or Neglect - Birth of Subsequent Child

These bills require DHMH to notify the Social Services Administration when an individual whose parental rights have been terminated and who has been identified in a central registry as responsible for child abuse or neglect has a subsequent child.

HB 145 / SB 481 Health Insurance - Dental Provider Panels - Provider Contracts

These bills prohibit a provider contract from requiring a provider, as a condition of participating in a fee- for-service dental provider panel, to participate in a capitated dental provider panel. The bills also require MIA to review dental provider contracts and the impact that the contracts have on the dental profession and report findings and recommendations by December 31, 2009.

24 HB 173 / SB 247 Health Occupations - Maryland Athletic Trainers Act

These bills require that on or after October 1, 2011, an individual must be licensed by the State Board of Physicians before practicing athletic training in the State. The bills establish an Athletic Trainer Advisory Committee within the board to develop and recommend regulations, continuing education requirements, and practice protocols for athletic trainers.

HB 235 Health Insurance - Rescission of Contracts and Certificates – Restrictions

This bill prohibits a carrier that conditions coverage on evidence of individual insurability from rescinding coverage on the basis of written information submitted on or with, or omitted from, an application unless the carrier completed medical underwriting and resolved all reasonable medical questions related to the written information before issuing the health benefit plan. A carrier must prove that any rescission of a health benefit plan complies with these provisions.

HB 244 / SB 413 Joint Committee on Children, Youth, and Families - Repeal of Sunset

These bills extend indefinitely the Joint Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, which is composed of 20 members of the General Assembly.

HB 250 / SB 759 Public Health - Certificates of Death - Nurse Practitioners

These bills authorize a nurse practitioner to sign and fill in information on a death certificate.

HB 252 / SB 309 State Board of Pharmacy - Pharmacy Permit - Term and Renewal

These bills extend the term of a pharmacy permit from one to two years and require the State Board of Pharmacy to send each permit holder a renewal notice by October 1 of the year in which the permit expires. The bills also remove the requirement that, along with a renewal notice, the board send a renewal application to a permit holder. These bills take effect July 1, 2009.

HB 255 / SB 380 Health Maintenance Organizations - Payments to Nonparticipating Providers

These bills alter the rates that a health maintenance organization (HMO) must pay for a covered service rendered to an HMO enrollee by certain noncontracting health care providers. For an evaluation and management service, the rate must be the greater of: 125 percent of the average rate the HMO paid as of January 1 of the previous year or 140 percent of the Medicare rate as of August 1, 2008, inflated by the Medicare Economic Index. For a nonevaluation and management service, an HMO must pay a noncontracting health care provider no less than 125% of the average rate paid to a similarly licensed contracting provider for the same covered service. There is no change to the methodology used to reimburse trauma physicians providing services in a trauma center. The Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) must annually review payments to health care providers to determine compliance with the bill and report its findings to the Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA). These bills take effect January 1, 2010, and terminate December 31, 2014.

25 HB 374 Radiation Therapists, Radiographers, Nuclear Medicine Technologists, and Radiologist Assistants - Renewal Requirements for Licenses

This bill requires that a licensed radiation therapist, radiographer, nuclear medicine technologist, or radiologist assistant meet, as a condition of license renewal, any additional renewal requirements set by the Board of Physicians.

HB 405 Health Insurance - Mandated Benefits - Breast Cancer Screening

This bill alters the health insurance mandate regarding coverage of mammograms by requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for breast cancer screening in accordance with the latest screening guidelines issued by the American Cancer Society.

HB 411 / SB 492 Community Mental Health Services Programs - Financial Statements and Salary Information

These bills require all licensed community mental health services programs to submit annual financial statements and salary information according to Mental Hygiene Administration (MHA) regulations. MHA may impose a penalty of up to $500 per day for each day a licensee fails to comply with the bill.

HB 412 / SB 493 Mental Health Programs and Facilities - Reports of Death

These bills authorize MHA facilities and programs that operate more than one treatment program to make only one death report if a person who attends more than one treatment program dies. In addition, if the death occurs in a nonresidential psychiatric rehabilitation program, the report of death must be made by close of business of the next working day. The bill also limits the programs and facilities that are subject to death reporting requirements to inpatient or residential treatment settings, residential crisis services, group homes, and residential rehabilitation programs.

HB 415 / SB 874 Mental Hygiene Administration - Rights of Individuals with Mental Disorders in Facilities

These bills allow an individual in a mental health facility to designate an advocate to participate in the treatment and discharge planning process except when the individual is a child or disabled adult whose parent or legal guardian has requested that a specific advocate not participate. The bills also require an individual in a mental health facility to receive treatment in accordance with his or her advance directive and clarify use of restraints. Finally, the bills place conditions on advocate participation and prohibit the bills’ provisions from being construed to grant certain authority not otherwise in law or limit authority established elsewhere in law.

HB 419 Wellness Report Card Pilot Program

This bill establishes a Maryland Health and Wellness Commission, which must be staffed by the University of Maryland School of Public Health with existing resources, to facilitate health promotion and disease prevention efforts. The bill also establishes a Wellness Report Card Pilot Program, funded by private or federal grants. The bill takes effect October 1, 2009, and terminates September 30, 2014.

26 HB 440 / SB 439 Health Insurance - Prompt Pay – Clarifications

These bills clarify that if an insurer (carrier) fails to pay a clean claim for reimbursement or otherwise violates clean claims requirements, the carrier must pay interest on the amount of the claim that remains unpaid 30 days after the receipt of the initial clean claim for reimbursement.

HB 456 / SB 985 Health Insurance - Coverage for Off-Label Use of Drugs - Standard Reference Compendia

These bills alter the definition of “standard reference compendia” for purposes of mandated coverage of off-label use of drugs to mean any authoritative compendia as recognized by the federal Secretary of Health and Human Services or the Maryland Insurance Commissioner. The mandate does not require coverage of a drug if the FDA has determined use of the drug to be contraindicated or if the drug is experimental and not approved for any indication.

HB 462 Medicaid State Plan and Medical Assistance Program - Amendments and Waiver Applications

This bill requires DHMH to provide notice of an amendment to the State Medicaid Plan by publication in the Maryland Register and submission to the Medicaid Advisory Committee.

HB 487 / SB 231 State Health Services Cost Review Commission - Health Care Facilities -Required Forms

These bills require all hospitals regulated by the Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC) to submit with their annual filings their most recent IRS Form 990. Form 990 must be filed annually with the IRS. The form includes information about compensation of officers, directors, trustees, key employees, highly compensated employees, and independent contractors. The “University of Maryland Hospital,” form must be certified by the State Legislative Auditor (Department of Legislative Services).

HB 500 Baltimore City - Medical Assistance Programs - Eligibility and Enrollment Information Mailings to Students

This bill requires the Baltimore City Public School System and DHMH to increase outreach for Medicaid and the Maryland Children’s Health Program (MHCP) to parents and guardians in Baltimore City whose students are enrolled in the National School Lunch Program. This bill takes effect July 1, 2009 and terminates June 30, 2011.

HB 503 / SB 963 Health - Maryland Commission on Autism

These bills establish the Maryland Commission on Autism, staffed by DHMH and the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE), to make recommendations regarding services for individuals with autism spectrum disorders; develop a statewide plan for a system of training, treatment, and services for individuals with autism; and evaluate ways to promote autism spectrum disorder awareness. Membership includes elected officials, representatives from higher education with clinical and research expertise, provider groups, parents and patients. The commission must report by June 1, 2011, with a final report by September 30, 2012. These bills terminate September 30, 2012.

27 HB 507 Inmates - Hepatitis C - Counseling and Referral to Medical Home

This bill requires the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS), with DHR and DHMH, to develop a process to refer an inmate who has been diagnosed with the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) to DHR or DHMH for enrollment in Medicaid or the Primary Adult Care program upon release.

HB 510 / SB 628 Health Occupations - Licensure of Social Workers

These bills require the Board of Social Work Examiners, when reviewing an application for licensure to practice social work, to notify each applicant of whether the applicant has been approved to take the licensure examination within 60 days after the application was submitted. The board is also required to establish a workgroup of interested stakeholders to examine and make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding the substance of licensure and the process by which licenses are issued.

HB 521 / SB 464 Maryland Trauma Physician Services Fund - Rural Trauma Centers – Reimbursement

These bills expand eligibility for reimbursement for Level III trauma centers from the Maryland Trauma Physician Services Fund by doubling the maximum number of reimbursable trauma on-call hours and authorizing reimbursement for costs incurred to maintain trauma physicians on-call in specified practice areas. Reimbursement is contingent upon availability of funds. These bills terminate September 30, 2013.

HB 526/ SB 646 Credentialing of Health Care Providers by Managed Care Organizations, Insurance Carriers, and Hospitals

These bills provide hospitals the choice of using either the credentialing form designated by DHMH or the uniform credentialing form designated by the Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA). Managed care organizations also are added to the list of carriers subject to uniform credentialing requirements.

HB 576 / SB 602 Dental Hygienists - Expanded Functions

These bills add two functions to the scope of practice for a dental hygienist – performing a manual curettage (removal of dead inner tissue from a gum pocket) in conjunction with scaling or root planning (removal of calculus) and administering local anesthesia. In addition, the bill allows for more flexibility in unsupervised clinical hours that dental hygienists can work by making the 60% threshold currently applicable to any given calendar week applicable to a three-month period instead.

HB 579 / SB 341 Prosthetic Parity Act

These bills require insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for prosthetic devices, components of prosthetic devices, and repair of prosthetic devices. A carrier may not impose an annual or lifetime dollar maximum on coverage for prosthetic devices, separate from any maximum that applies in the aggregate to all covered benefits. Additionally, a carrier may not establish requirements for medical necessity or appropriateness that are more restrictive than those under the Medicare Coverage Database.

28 HB 580 Foster Kids Coverage Act

This bill requires Medicaid to provide coverage for independent foster care adolescents who are not otherwise eligible for Medicaid benefits and who have annual household incomes up to 300% of federal poverty guidelines. Independent foster care adolescents are individuals younger than age 21 who, on their eighteenth birthday, were in State foster care.

HB 585 / SB 661 Health Insurance - Use of Physician Rating Systems by Carriers

Theses bills establish requirements for MHCC to approve “ratings examiners” to review “physician rating systems.” The bills prohibit carriers from using a physician rating system unless the system is approved by a ratings examiner. To use a physician rating system, carriers must establish an appeals process for physicians and disclose specified information to physicians at least 45 days in advance of making evaluations available to enrollees or altering a physician rating system. Annually, MIA must report to the Governor and Maryland General Assembly on the number of entities approved as rating examiners and the number and types of appeals filed by physicians. These bills take effect January 1, 2010.

HB 590/ SB 716 Long-Term Care Insurance - Annuity Contracts and Qualified State Long-Term Care Insurance Partnership

These bills authorize an annuity contract to include a rider or supplemental contract provision offering a contract holder reimbursement or payment for long-term care. These bills also repeal the requirement that the outline of coverage, which carriers must provide to long-term care insurance applicants, include a statement as to whether the policy or contract is approved under the Qualified State Long-Term Care Insurance Partnership (QSLTCIP). Rather the bills require that a certificate issued under group long-term care insurance include a statement as to whether the policy or contract is intended to qualify as a partnership policy under the QSLTCIP. These bills take effect June 1, 2009.

HB 597 / SB 433 State Board of Physicians - Polysomnographic Technologists - Education and Licensing Requirements

These bills delay the date by which a polysomnographic technologist must be licensed by the State Board of Physicians in order to practice in the State until October 1, 2011, and extend the date by which licensure applicants can fulfill the requirements for a waiver of education requirements.

HB 610/ SB 638 Health Insurance - Bona Fide Wellness Programs – Incentives

These bills authorize a carrier to provide reasonable incentives to an insured, subscriber, or member for participation in a bona fide wellness program under specified circumstances and clarify that it is not discrimination or a rebate for a carrier to provide such incentives if the incentives are provided as specified. The definition of “bona fide wellness program” is expanded to include programs designed to promote health or prevent and control injury, but no longer includes promoting healthy lifestyle choices. “Incentive” means a discount of a premium or contribution, a waiver of all or part of a cost-sharing mechanism, the absence of a surcharge, the value of a benefit that would otherwise not be provided, or a specified rebate. The definition of “wellness benefit” in the small group health insurance market is also altered to conform to the provisions of the bills. A carrier may not make participation in a bona fide wellness program a condition of coverage.

29 HB 654 / SB 951 Health Occupations - License to Practice Psychology - Doctoral Degree in Psychology

These bills alter the definition of a doctoral degree in psychology to expand the types of doctoral programs the State Board of Examiners of Psychology may recognize as qualifying an applicant for a license to practice psychology in the State. A qualifying degree may be accredited by the Canadian Psychological Association or meet the qualifying criteria determined by the Council for the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. The bills also repeal the requirement that at least one year of required supervised professional experience occur after a doctoral degree has been awarded.

HB 674 / SB 637 Health Insurance - Small Group Market Regulation – Modifications

These bills make several changes to small group market regulation. Specifically, the bills: permit preexisting condition limitations to the extent that they are allowed in the large group; repeal the floor on the Comprehensive Standard Health Benefit Plan; change the rating of health benefit plans issued in the small group market, effective July 1, 2010. The bills also require MHCC to maintain on its web site an application that small businesses may use to compare premiums for health benefit plans offered through the small group market; and require a report on potential options for allowing plans with fewer benefits than the Comprehensive Standard Health Benefit Plan to be sold in the small group market.

HB 683 Post Adoption Support Services Pilot Program

This bill expands eligibility for post adoption support services provided under the Post Adoption Support Services Pilot Program to all adoptions in the State. In order to ensure the equitable distribution of funds, DHR (1) must allow the delivery of post adoption services to at least 125 families; (2) must dedicate 80% of the funds to families of children adopted through local departments and 20% of the funds to remaining adoptive families; and (3) after October 31, 2009, but before November 30, 2009, must evaluate the distribution of funds. The bill extends the termination date of the program until December 31, 2010.

HB 705 / SB 862 Child Fatality Review - Child Death Review Case Reporting System

These bills authorize the State Child Fatality Review Team members and staff to provide identifying information about any child protection case to the National Center for Child Death Review according to a data use agreement.

HB 706 Electronic Health Records - Regulation and Reimbursement

This bill requires MHCC and HSCRC to designate a State health information exchange (HIE) by October 1, 2009 and by various deadlines must: adopt regulations requiring “State-regulated payors” to provide incentives to providers to promote use of electronic health records (EHRs); designate one or more management service organizations (MSOs) to offer EHR services; and submit specified reports. Stakeholders are to be consulted throughout the processes. Beginning the later of January 1, 2015, or the date established for the imposition of penalties under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), each provider using an EHR that seeks payment from a State-regulated payor must use EHRs that are certified by a national certification organization designated by MHCC and capable of connecting to and exchanging data with the State HIE. State-regulated payors may reduce payments to health care providers for noncompliance with these requirements. This bill takes effect July 1, 2009.

30 HB 713 / SB 690 Programs for Children in Out-of-Home Placement - System for Outcomes Evaluation

These bills require the Governor’s Office for Children to measure the effectiveness of treatment foster care homes based on the existing systems for outcomes evaluation process currently used for residential child care programs. Beginning July 2011, this requirement will expand to include residential programs operated by or under contract with DJS and foster care homes approved by a local department of social services. These bills take effect July 1, 2009.

HB 725 / SB 791 Group Model Health Maintenance Organizations - Drug Therapy Management

These bills allow licensed physicians and licensed pharmacists participating in a group model health maintenance organization (HMO) to provide drug therapy management to patients under specified circumstances. The bills also exempt group model HMOs that wish to provide drug therapy management to a patient from having to enter into a therapy management contract with the patient. The drug therapy management authorized under the bills must be provided under a physician-pharmacist agreement that is approved by the State Board of Pharmacy and State Board of Physicians and must also be provided through the internal pharmacy operations of the HMO. The bills require that a patient be informed of drug therapy management procedures; that he or she may decline to participate or withdraw from drug therapy management participation at any time; and, that neither the physician nor pharmacist has been given economic incentives to participate. The patient’s documented informed consent to participate in drug therapy management must be obtained after making the required disclosure.

HB 739 / SB 952 Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Substance Abuse Services

These bills require substance abuse services equivalent to those provided to adults under the Medicaid program to be provided to adults covered under the Primary Adult Care (PAC) program. In fiscal 2010, the bills authorize the Governor to transfer $3,343,418 in general or special funds from the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration (ADAA) to provide substance abuse services under the PAC program and to increase the rates paid to providers for substance abuse services. In addition, the bills require MCOs to report aggregate data on the number of enrollees provided with substance abuse treatment services and the amount of money spent on substance abuse treatment. DHMH has to collaborate with MCOs to establish a process and criteria to qualify certified addiction treatment programs as paneled providers. These bills take effect January 1, 2010.

HB 756 Cultural and Linguistic Health Care Provider Competency Program

This bill establishes a voluntary Cultural and Linguistic Health Care Provider Competency Program to offer classes to health care providers on cultural and linguistic competency as it relates to providing health care. The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, the State Medical Society, the Maryland Nurses Association, the Maryland State Dental Association, the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work, the National Association of Social Workers-Maryland Chapter, the Maryland Psychological Association, or any other health professional association in the State is encouraged to identify cultural and linguistic competency training programs or develop or collaborate in the development of such training programs. DHMH must develop a method by which each licensing board may recognize the training received by health care providers.

31 HB 782 / SB 664 Nursing Facilities - Accountability Measures - Pay-for-Performance Program

These bills require DHMH to phase in the distribution of revenues to nursing facilities under the pay-for- performance program (P4P) beginning July 1, 2010. By July 1, 2009, DHMH must send each nursing facility the scoring criteria, the performance of the facility relative to the scoring criteria, and the monies that would be received by the facility using the scoring criteria. Beginning July 1, 2011, DHMH must fully implement the P4P program. The bills also require DHMH to consult with stakeholders to assess the State’s long-term care reimbursement methodology and report its findings by October 1, 2010.

HB 788 Baltimore City and Baltimore County - Child in Need of Supervision Pilot Program – Extension

This bill extends to June 30, 2013 the termination date of the Child in Need of Supervision Pilot Program in Baltimore City and Baltimore County. The bill requires the Governor to include a general fund appropriation of $250,000 for DJS in fiscal 2011, 2012, and 2013 to continue funding the pilot program. This bill takes effect July 1, 2009.

HB 957/ SB 796 Office of the Treasurer - Community Services Trust Fund – Workgroup

These bills require DHMH, in collaboration with the Office of the Treasurer, to convene a workgroup to evaluate the Community Services Trust Fund and report by December 1, 2009. The bills also require funds to remain in the fund until the workgroup has submitted its report. These bills take effect June 1, 2009.

HB 1069 / SB 776 Health Services Cost Review Commission - Financial Assistance and Debt Collection Policies

These bills alter the requirements for hospital financial assistance and debt collection policies by requiring hospitals to: (1) provide free and reduced-cost care to individuals with specified incomes who lack sufficient health care coverage; (2) develop an information sheet and provide certain notice to patients; and (3) submit to HSCRC a debt collection policy that adheres to specified standards. At a minimum, the policy has to provide free care to patients with family income up to 150% of federal poverty guidelines (FPG) and reduced-cost care to low-income patients with family income above the 150% of FPG. However, by regulation, the HSCRC may establish income thresholds that are higher than the 150% of FPG standard. HSCRC is charged with convening a workgroup to study hospital debt collection practices and report its findings by October 1, 2009. These bills take effect June 1, 2009.

HB 1071 / SB 854 Health Insurance - Definition of Coverage Decisions - Pharmacy Inquiries

These bills exclude a “pharmacy inquiry” from the definition of coverage decision for purposes of the internal appeals process for carrier coverage decisions and subsequent complaints to MIA. A “pharmacy inquiry” is defined as an inquiry submitted by a pharmacist or pharmacy on behalf of a member to a carrier or a PBM at the point of sale about the scope of pharmacy coverage, pharmacy benefit design, or formulary under a health benefit plan.

32 HB 1150 Health Occupations - Anatomic Pathology Services – Billing

This bill authorizes a clinical laboratory, a physician, or a group practice that provides anatomic pathology services for a patient in Maryland to bill the health care practitioner who orders but does not supervise or perform an anatomic pathology service on a Pap test specimen provided that the health care practitioner complies with specific disclosure and ethics requirements. The bill also authorizes a health care practitioner who collects a Pap specimen to bill a patient or payor for the service as long as the same disclosure and ethics requirements are met.

HB 1195 Prescription Drugs - Wholesale Drug Distribution - Surety Bond Requirements

This emergency bill changes the amount of the surety bond that applicants for a wholesale pharmaceutical distribution permit must submit with their application. The amount changes from $100,000 in all cases to $100,000 only if the applicant’s annual gross receipts from the sale of prescription drugs or devices in the State for the previous tax year are $10,000,000 or more. It drops to $50,000 if the applicant’s annual gross receipts for the previous tax year are less than $10,000,000.

HB 1337 / SB 933 Family Law - State Citizens Review Board for Children and Local Boards of Review – Duties

These bills alter the existing duties of the Citizens Review Board for Children (CRBC) and local boards of review. Specifically, the bills require DHR and CRBC to adopt regulations requiring that local boards review cases based on priorities agreed upon the department and CRBC as stated in a memorandum of agreement. Additionally, local boards are required to report on the following: (1) the identification of barriers to achieve timely permanency; (2) whether the child is receiving appropriate services to achieve the stated permanency goal; and (3) any reasonable efforts made towards promoting the child’s relationship with individuals who will play a lasting, supporting role in the child’s life. These bills take effect July 1, 2009.

HB 1382 Juvenile Law - Juvenile Records – Disclosure

This bill creates two additional exceptions to the general rule of confidentiality of juvenile records. The bill allows access to and confidential use of a juvenile court record by DHR for the purpose of claiming federal Title IV-E funds. Additionally, the bill authorizes a state or federal agency that performs the same function in its jurisdiction as DJS does in Maryland to access the court records or fingerprints of a child

HB 1466 Family Investment Program - Temporary Cash Assistance - Assignment of Support

This bill brings the State in compliance with the Federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 by repealing a provision that requires Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA) applicants and recipients to assign to the State the right to receive child support accrued prior to receiving TCA. Under the bill, the applicant or recipient must assign to the State all right, title, and interest in support only for the period that the family receives TCA. This bill takes effect July 1, 2009.

33 HB 1468 Public Health Surveillance – Confidentiality

This departmental bill clarifies that reports submitted by physicians, health care institutions, and laboratories regarding a communicable disease or condition are confidential and not discoverable or admissible as evidence in any civil or criminal matter except in accordance with a court order sealing the court record. The bill does not apply to reports, information, or records that are available to the public or required to be publicly disclosed.

HB 1472 Health Insurance - Senior Prescription Drug Assistance Program – Funding

This bill makes clarifying changes to the Senior Prescription Drug Assistance Program (SPDAP) and specifies how CareFirst must provide a subsidy for assistance with the Medicare Part D coverage gap for individuals enrolled in SPDAP. The bill clarifies that there are two subsidies provided to SPDAP: (1) a subsidy under § 14-106 of the Insurance Article, which funds the SPDAP premium subsidy and is capped at $14.0 million in fiscal 2010; and (2) a subsidy under § 14-106.2 of the Insurance Article, which provides assistance with the Medicare Part D coverage gap and is provided in an amount of $4.0 million in years in which CareFirst incurs a specified surplus. This bill takes effect July 1, 2009.

HB 1475 Maryland Veterans Behavioral Health – Expansion

This bill extends behavioral health services benefits to all Maryland veterans of foreign wars who have been discharged or released from service under conditions other than dishonorable and are not receiving services from the VA, rather than to veterans only of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. In addition, the bill broadens the geographic coverage area for short-term behavioral services provided to these veterans, where existing federal and State services are determined by DHMH to be inadequate, from rural areas to any area in the State.

HB 1486 / SB 1039 Prince George's County Hospital Authority

These bills alter the scope of the authority, including authorizing an extension of the bidding process, clarifying the duration of State and county funding commitments, and authorizing MHCC to issue an exemption from the certificate of need process and waive requirements of the State Health Plan. The authority must complete its obligations prior to the expiration of the authority on May 22, 2010, and certain State agencies have to designate consultants to advise the authority.

SB 63 Oral Health Safety Net Program - Sunset Repeal

This departmental bill repeals the September 30, 2011 termination date for the Oral Health Safety Net Program in DHMH.

SB 70 Family Law - Child Support Enforcement - Medical Support for Children

This departmental bill requires a court to include in any order for child support a provision that either parent or both parents must include the child in the parent’s health insurance coverage under specified circumstances. The bill also establishes procedures for cases in which health insurance is not available at a reasonable cost.

34 SB 79 Health Insurance - Limitations on Preexisting Condition Provisions – Individual Health Benefit Plans

This departmental bill: (1) alters preexisting condition provisions for individual health insurance benefit plans; (2) requires carriers that sell health insurance under an out-of-state association contract to make certain disclosures; (3) restricts the circumstances under which certain carriers are permitted to rescind a health insurance policy; and (4) requires the MIA, in consultation with stakeholders, to study options to raise or define medical loss ratios in the individual, small group, and large group health insurance markets and report its findings by December 1, 2009. The bill’s main provisions take effect on and apply to all policies, contracts, certificates, and health benefit plans issued, delivered, or renewed on or after October 1, 2009. The loss ratio reporting study requirement takes effect July 1, 2009.

SB 83 Human Services - Child Welfare Workforce

This bill streamlines the hiring process for experienced caseworkers in DHR. It requires DHR to develop standards to exempt newly hired individuals who have documented and verified casework experience or hold appropriate State licensure from certain new hire training programs. However, DHR must require a caseworker who is exempted from the training program and who fails the competency test to participate in the program and take and pass the competency test before being granted permanent employment status. This bill takes effect July 1, 2009.

SB 84 Health Insurance - Medicare Coverage and Continuation Coverage – Provisions That Relate to Federal Laws and Programs

This emergency bill makes changes to State law to enable individuals in small firms that were involuntarily terminated from their jobs between September and February to have a second opportunity to elect continuation coverage and obtain a federal premium subsidy. This bill takes effect upon enactment.

SB 242 Dispensation of Prescription Medication - Provision of Information Relating to Incorrectly Filled Prescriptions

This bill requires pharmacy permit holders to inform consumers of the process for resolving incorrectly filled prescriptions by posting a readable sign in a conspicuous location at the point where prescriptions are dispensed or by including that information with each filled prescription. Licensed dentists, physicians, or podiatrists who prepare and dispense their own prescriptions must comply with these requirements. An exemption exists for a pharmacy to which the public does not have access that is owned or operated by specified facilities, such as a hospital.

SB 636 Health Insurance - Required Report and Repeal of Obsolete Provisions

This bill repeals a provision of law that would apply the rules of the small group health insurance market to the entire commercial market if and when a certain trigger is reached. Instead MIA is required to report by December 1 of each year, on the estimated number of insured and self-insured contracts for health benefit plans in the State and the number of insured and self-insured lives younger than age 65 enrolled in health benefit plans in the State.

35 SB 700 Pharmacists - Administration of Vaccinations - Expanded Authority

This bill expands the types of vaccinations that may be administered by a pharmacist to any vaccination that the Board of Pharmacy, Board of Physicians, and Board of Nursing determines to be in the best interest of the community and is administered in accordance with regulations adopted jointly by the three boards. The vaccinations may only be administered by a pharmacist who has verified successful completion of a certification course that included instruction in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines and who is certified in basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

SB 1054 State Advisory Council on Quality Care at the End of Life – Membership

This bill adds a representative of the nursing home industry to the membership of the State Advisory Council on Quality of Care at the End of Life.

36 Public Safety and Transportation

HB 72 / SB 98 The Delegate John Arnick Electronic Communications Traffic Safety Act

These bills prohibit drivers with instructional permits or provisional licenses younger than age 18 from using a text messaging device to write or send a text message while operating a motor vehicle in motion or in the travel portion of the roadway.

HB 296 / SB 267 Family Law - Protective Orders - Surrender of Firearms

These Administration bills require a final protective order for the respondent to surrender to law enforcement authorities any firearm in the respondent’s possession and to refrain from possession of any firearm for the duration of the protective order.

HB 299 Criminal Law - Alcoholic Beverages - Underage Individuals - Prohibitions and Penalties

This Administration bill creates a code violation for an individual younger than age 21 who consumes an alcoholic beverage. It also establishes misdemeanor penalties for adults who knowingly obtain or furnish or allow consumption of alcohol by an individual younger than 21.

HB 301 / SB 259 Criminal Procedure - Drunk and Drugged Driving - Probation Before Judgment

These Administration bills extend from 5 to 10 years, the period during which a prior conviction for specified alcohol and/or drug-related driving offenses disqualifies a person from eligibility to be placed on probation before judgment (PBJ) for subsequent offenses.

HB 302 / SB 268 Family Law - Temporary Protective Orders - Surrender of Firearms

These Administration bills authorize a court, when issuing a temporary protective order, to order the respondent to surrender any firearm in the respondent’s possession and to refrain from possession of any firearm for the duration of the temporary protective order under certain circumstances.

HB 303 / SB 265 Vehicle Laws - Teen Driver Safety

These Administration bills alter the age requirements for issuance of a provisional driver’s license and a driver’s license and makes other changes to teen driving statutes.

37 HB 305 / SB 263 Vehicle Laws - Alcohol Restriction on Driver's License - Penalties for Violations

These Administration bills make the conviction for violation of an alcohol or other MVA imposed driver’s license restriction or violation of the Maryland Vehicle Law a misdemeanor with maximum penalties up to two months imprisonment and/or a fine of $500.

HB 311 / SB 266 Freedom of Association and Assembly Protection Act of 2009

These Administration bills establish the responsibilities of law enforcement agencies and the rights of persons, groups, and organizations engaged in First Amendment activities. By January 1, 2010, law enforcement agencies must adopt regulations or policies governing the conduct of covert investigations and the collection, dissemination, retention, and purging of information. Also by January 1, 2010, the Department of State Police (DSP) must report on the status of matters relating to its Case Explorer database.

HB 317 / SB 303 Silver Alert Program – Establishment

These bills create a statewide Silver Alert Program within DSP to provide a system for rapid dissemination of information to assist in locating a missing person who is cognitively impaired.

HB 560 Hate Crimes - Prohibitions and Protected Classes - Disability

This bill adds disability as a protected class under State hate crime statutes. It also adds the attempt to commit a crime motivated by bias as a prohibited offense under the law.

HB 613 Public Safety - Elevators – Inspections

This bill requires, among other items, State inspectors to conduct final inspections of all new elevators prior to initial certification; final inspections of modernized or altered elevators; investigations of accidents and complaints; follow-up inspections to confirm corrective action; comprehensive five-year inspections; and quality control monitoring of inspections conducted by third-party elevator inspectors. Exemptions are provided for elevators owned by units of State or local government. This bill takes effect July 1, 2009.

HB 626 Criminal Law - Controlled Dangerous Substance – Manufacture

This bill makes technical changes to the classification of manufacturing, distributing or possessing controlled dangerous substances, and as an “underlying crime” for purposes of criminal gang offenses. Moving the prohibition against the manufacture of controlled dangerous substances to a different part of the Code is a technical change only.

38 HB 635 Criminal Procedure - Occupational Licenses or Certificates – Criminal Conviction

The bill prohibits certain State departments from denying an occupational license or certificate to an applicant solely on the basis that the applicant has previously been convicted of a crime, other than a crime of violence, unless the department determines other risks. The bill defines “department” as the following: (1) Maryland Department of Agriculture; (2) Maryland Department of the Environment; (3) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; (4) Department of Human Resources; (5) Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation; or (6) Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.

HB 637 / SB 908 Task Force on Prisoner Reentry

These bills establish a Task Force on Prisoner Reentry. Its charge is to develop a comprehensive strategic reentry plan as specified under the federal Second Chance Act and report both interim and final recommendations.

HB 1273 Criminal Procedure - Medical Emergency After Alcohol or Drug Ingestion - Mitigating Factor

This bill specifies that the act of seeking medical assistance for another person who is experiencing a medical emergency after ingesting alcohol or drugs may be used as a mitigating factor in a criminal prosecution.

SB 58 Family Law - Termination of Parental Rights

This departmental bill is designed to eliminate confusion following the decision in In Re: Adoption of Rashawn Kevon H., 402 Md. 477 (2007). This bill establishes that after the consideration of existing statutory factors, a juvenile court, in order to grant guardianship of a child without parental consent and over the child’s objections, must also find that a parent is unfit to remain in a parental relationship with the child. The bill applies only to petitions pending on or filed on or after the bill’s October 1, 2009 effective date.

SB 151 Hate Crimes - Prohibitions and Protected Classes – Expansion to Homeless Persons and Groups and Gender

This bill expands the protected classes under existing hate crimes laws to include gender and the homeless. The bill also adds “attempt” to commit a crime motivitated by bias as a prohibited offense under the law.

SB 817 Task Force to Study Prison Violence in Maryland – Reconstitution

This bill reconstitutes the Task Force to Study Prison Violence in Maryland. The task force will evaluate the cause and effect of certain influences on violence in Maryland’s prisons and report interim and final recommendations.

40 State and Local Government

HB 91 / SB 132 Department of General Services - Renovation of Historic Structures - Procurement Exemptions

These bills exempt from most of the requirements of the State procurement law any procurement by the Department of General Services (DGS) for the renovation of a structure built during the 18th or 19th century and listed in or eligible to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Maryland Historical Trust estimates that approximately 20 State-owned buildings under DGS authority could be subject to this procurement exemption. These bills take effect July 1, 2009. The provisions of these bills do not apply to USM.

HB 124 / SB 187 State Procurement - Bundling of Procurements

These bills prohibit State procurement units from “bundling” a procurement for the purpose of precluding or limiting the participation of MBEs or small businesses in State procurement. The provisions of these bills do not apply to USM.

HB 289 / SB 67 Attorney General - State Legal Business - Hiring Counsel

These bills specify that the Attorney General is the legal advisor for each government officer and unit of State government and is required to perform all legal work for the State. Outside counsel may be hired, however, if a law expressly so provides or the Attorney General grants prior approval.

HB 389 / SB 611 Minority Business Enterprise Program – Prohibitions

These bills prohibit a prime contractor from falsely including an MBE in a bid or proposal for a State procurement and require the Governor’s Office of Minority Affairs (GOMA) to operate a fraud hotline to report violations.

HB 457 Principal Departments and Executive Branch Units - Dissemination of Information Websites

This bill repeals the requirement for principal departments and Executive Branch units to submit organizational charts to the General Assembly each year. The departments and units are now required to post the organizational charts on the department or unit web site.

41 HB 461 State Personnel - Incentive Awards - Review and Evaluation Process

This bill requires half of the members of a principal unit’s review committee to be selected from the exclusive representatives, if any exist. The review committee must be consulted in the submission of ideas to the Governor’s Award Panel. The bill also specifies that an employee may submit an innovative idea by application or through the employee’s supervisor.

HB 471 / SB 489 Minority Business Enterprise Certification - Cap on Personal Net Worth

These bills provide for the personal net worth cap for business owners for the State’s MBE program, currently at $1.5 million, to be adjusted annually according to the Consumer Price Index. The bills also exempt up to $500,000 of retirement savings from the calculation of personal net worth and require a report by December 1, 2010.

HB 533 Cooperative Purchasing Agreements - Requirements and Expansion of Use

This bill promotes intergovernmental cooperative purchasing by requiring State Executive Branch agencies and local governments to facilitate participation by State and local agencies and nonprofit organizations in service and supply contracts. However, contracts for capital construction and improvements, as well as contracts valued at less than $100,000 are exempt. The provisions of this bill do not apply to USM.

HB 641 / SB 211 Minority Business Enterprise Program - Participation by Race or Gender

These bills allow a woman-owned business that is owned by a member of a racial or ethnic minority group to be certified as both a woman-owned business and as a business owned by a member of a recognized racial or ethnic minority group under the MBE program.

HB 644 Procurement - Apprenticeship Training Programs

This bill establishes a State Apprenticeship Training Fund and requires contractors and subcontractors who work on public works contracts that are subject to the prevailing wage law to either participate in an apprenticeship training program, make payments to a registered apprenticeship program, or contribute to the fund. The provisions of this bill do not apply to USM.

HB 735 State Personnel - At-Will Employment - Reforms and Reports

This bill makes changes to the State Personnel Management System as it relates to special appointments of skilled and professional service classifications and implements recommendations of the 2008 At-Will Employment in Maryland report. The bill requires the Secretary of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to evaluate all skilled and professional service positions considered special appointments and report the results by January 1, 2012. USM’s independent personnel system is exempt from the review by DBM. This bill also establishes a Joint Committee on Fair Practices and State Personnel Oversight. The joint committee will have oversight of employment policies and personnel systems in the Executive Branch of State government and on matters of equal employment opportunities. USM’s independent personnel system will be subject to review by the oversight committee.

42 HB 975 / SB 591 State Retirement and Pension System - Military Service Credit – Clarification and Simplification

These bills entitle members of State or local retirement and pension plans who are killed in the line of duty while serving in the military to death and disability benefits provided by their plans as if they had returned to work and then died or become disabled. These bills take effect July 1, 2009.

HB 977 / SB 592 State Retirement and Pension System - Compliance with Federal Tax Provisions

These bills make technical changes to reflect recent changes to the federal Internal Revenue Code. To comply with federal tax law, any benefits forfeited by a member may only be used to reduce employer contributions, and may not be used to pay for benefit increases. The bills also expand and clarify the conditions under which the system can pay direct rollovers to participants, surviving spouses, former spouses, and designated beneficiaries. These bills take effect July 1, 2009.

HB 1179 Election Law - Early Voting

This bill establishes an early voting period, for the 2010 gubernatorial primary and general elections, from the second Friday before the primary or general election through the Thursday before the election, excluding Sunday. The bill specifies a different early voting period for the 2012 presidential primary and general elections, from the second Saturday before the primary or general election through the Thursday before the election, including Sunday.

HB 1194 Open Meetings Act - Expansion of Definition of Public Body

This bill alters the definition of “public body” under the Open Meetings Act to include any multimember board, commission, or committee that (1) is appointed by an entity in the Executive Branch of State government, the members of which are appointed by the Governor, and that otherwise meets the definition of a public body or an official subject to the policy direction of such an entity; and (2) includes in its membership at least two individuals who are not members of the appointing entity or employed by the State.

HB 1297 Procurement - Minority Business Enterprises - Prime Contractors

This bill requires the Board of Public Works (BPW) to adopt regulations that promote and provide for the counting and reporting of MBEs as prime contractors. The bill also requires that annual MBE reports prepared by GOMA include information on the prevalence of MBEs as prime contractors.

HB 1336 / SB 946 Minority Business Enterprise Program - Report to Joint Committee on Fair Practices

These bills require State procurement units to submit copies of their annual MBE utilization reports to the General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Fair Practices.

43 HB 1561 Maryland Veterans Trust Fund

This bill establishes the Maryland Veterans Trust Fund as a special nonlapsing fund administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. The money in the fund is to be used to make grants and loans to veterans and their families, public and private programs that support veterans and their families, and to any other programs that the Secretary considers appropriate.

SB 12 Tobacco Product Manufacturers - Settlement of State Claims – Nonparticipating Manufacturers - Deposit of Funds in Escrow - Codification of Model Statute

This bill codifies the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) model statute. The bill makes certain technical, stylistic, and conforming changes and does not directly affect governmental finances.

SB 81 State Personnel - Maryland Whistleblower Law - Confidentiality of Information Obtained During Investigations of Complaints

This departmental bill requires confidential treatment of information obtained in the course of the investigation of an alleged violation of the Maryland Whistleblower Law. The bill applies retroactively to any investigation of a complaint that was initiated or completed before the October 1, 2009 effective date of the bill.

SB 568 Minority Business Enterprise Program - Directory of Minority Business Enterprises

This bill requires the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) to include in its directory of certified MBEs a list of MBEs that are no longer qualified because the personal net worth of one or more of an MBE’s owners exceeds the statutory cap or because the MBE no longer qualifies as a small business under federal guidelines.

44 APPENDIX I

Testimony, advocacy events, and briefings at the 2009 Session of the Maryland General Assembly of interest to the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) community.

Date Committee Subject Individual 1/15 Advocacy Day University of E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, Dean, Maryland School of University of Maryland School of Medicine Medicine Students, Faculty, and Alumnae of the University of Maryland School of Medicine 1/21 Health & Maryland Stem Cell Karen H. Rothenberg, JD, MPA, Dean, Government Research University of Maryland School of Law Operations Commission Briefing 1/21 Finance Task Force to Review Claudia R. Baquet, MD, MPH, Associate Physician Shortages Dean & Director, Health Policy/Health in Maryland Rural Services Research, University of Maryland Areas Briefing School of Medicine 1/21 Finance SB 63 Oral Health Norman Tinanoff, DMD, University of Safety Net Program- Maryland Dental School-Support Sunset Repeal Jane Casper, Chair, Dental Action Committee- Support 1/22 Health & Task Force to Review Claudia R. Baquet, UMSOM Government Physician Shortages Operations in Maryland Rural Areas - Briefing 1/27 Judicial SB 9 Criminal Law- Rose Chasm, MD, FAAEM, University of Proceedings Salvia Divinorum- Maryland School of Medicine-Representing Controlled Dangerous Self-Support Substances 1/27 Judiciary HB 8 Criminal Law- Rose Chasm, UMSOM, Representing Self- Salvia Divinorum- Support Controlled Dangerous Substances 1/28 Judicial SB 12 Tobacco Kathleen Dachille, JD, Assistant Professor Proceedings Product and Director, Legal Resource Center for Manufacturers - Tobacco Regulation, University of Maryland Settlement of State School of Law-Support Claims 2/4 Health & Task Force on Diane Hoffmann, JD, Associate Dean and Government Discipline of Health Director, Law & Health Care Program, Operations Care Professionals & University of Maryland School of Law Patient Care 2/5 Judiciary HB 144 SSA - Richard P. Barth, PhD, MSW, Dean, Children at University of Maryland School of Social Substantial Risk of Work-Support Abuse or Neglect 2/5 Judiciary HB 200 Maryland Janet S. Owens, Chair, University of Uniform Prudent Maryland Baltimore Foundation-Support Management of Institutional Funds

45 Date Committee Subject Individual 2/10 Judicial SB 54 Genetic James L. Hughes, MBA, Vice President, Proceedings Privacy-Individual’s Research & Development, University of Genetic Information Maryland, Baltimore-Letter of Concern 2/11 Advocacy Day University of Students, Faculty, and Alumnae of the Maryland Dental University of Maryland Dental School School 2/11 Judicial SB 230 Maryland Janet S. Owens, Chair, University of Proceedings Uniform Prudent Maryland Baltimore Foundation-Support Management of Institutional Funds 2/11 Appropriations- HB 100 Operating David J. Ramsay, DM, DPhil, President, Education & Budget – University University of Maryland, Baltimore-Support Economic of Maryland, Development Baltimore (UMB) 2/12 Advocacy Day School of Pharmacy Natalie D. Eddington, PhD, Dean, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy Students, Faculty, and Alumnae of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy 2/12 Budget & Taxation HB 100 Operating David J. Ramsay, President, UMB-Support Budget - UMB 2/13 Budget & HB 100 DHMH Norman Tinanoff, UMDS-Support Taxation-Health, Community & Family Jane Casper, Dental Action Committee- Education & Adm. Budget – Support Human Resources Office of Oral Health 2/12 Health & HB 89 Hospitals- Joan Plisko, PhD, Technical Director, Government Certificate of Need & Maryland Hospitals for a Healthy Operations Rate-Setting-High Environment, University of Maryland School Performance Bldgs. of Nursing, Representing Self-Support 2/12 Finance SB 130 Health Ins. – James Hughes, UMB-Technical Amendment Use of Prescription Information 2/12 Finance SB 380 HMOs – John Spearman, Vice President, Shock Payments to Trauma Center, University of Maryland Nonparticipating Medical System-Support with Amendment Providers 2/17 Appropriations HB 383 Managing Jenifer O. Fahey, University of Maryland for Results- School of Medicine, Representing Self- Evidence-Based Support Practices 2/18 Education, Health SB 433 Steven M. Scharf, MD, PhD, Director, & Environmental Polysomnographic University of Maryland Sleep Disorders Affairs Technologists Center-Support 2/18 Finance SB 196 Physician James Hughes, UMB-Letter of Information Payments - Pharmaceutical Mfts. 2/18 Health & Minority Health Fadia Shaya, PhD, MPH, Associate Government Disparities Subc. Professor, University of Maryland School of Operations MVP Cardiovascular Pharmacy Briefing

46 Date Committee Subject Individual 2/18 Appropriations- HB 100 DHMH Kevin J. Cullen, MD, Professor and Director, Health & Human Community & Family University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Resources Adm. Budget – Center, UMMC-Support Cigarette Restitution Claudia R. Baquet, UMSOM-Support Fund and Office of Norman Tinanoff, UMDS-Support Oral Health Jane Casper, Dental Action Committee- Support 2/19 Finance SB 160 Hereditary & Miriam G. Blitzer, PhD, FACMG, Professor Congenital Disorders- of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School Newborn Screening of Medicine, Representing Self-Oppose 2/19 Health & HB 180 Hereditary & Miriam Blitzer, UMSOM, Representing Self- Government Congenital Disorders- Oppose Operations Newborn Screening 2/19 Health & HB 521 Md Trauma Brenda Fosler Johnson, Chair, Maryland Government Physician Services Trauma Center Network, Shock Trauma Operations Fund-Rural Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Centers System-Oppose 2/24 Economic Matters HB 681 Business Kathleen Dachille, UMSOL-Oppose Regulation - Tobacco Products Distribution 2/24 Economic Matters HB 238 Cigars - Kathleen Dachille, UMSOL-Support Sales of Less Than Four Per Package 2/24 Ways & Means HB 612 Higher Kerri Socha, Student, University of Maryland Education - Tuition School of Social Work, Representing Self- Charges Support 2/24 Ways & Means HB 802 Public Kerri Socha, UMSSW, Representing Self- Institutions of Higher Oppose Education-Resident Tuition 2/24 Ways & Means HB 714 Loan David L. Stewart, MD, MPH, Chair, Family Assistance and Community Medicine, UMSOM-Support Repayment & Nancy Ryan Lowitt, MD, EdM, Associate Practice Assistance Dean, UMSOM-Support for Physicians James Baronas, MD, Chief Resident, Family Medicine, UM School of Medicine-Support Claudia R. Baquet, UMSOM-Support 2/24 Budget & Taxation SB 393 Managing for Jenifer O. Fahey, UMSOM, Representing Results - Evidence- Self-Support Based Practices 2/25 Economic Matters HB 814 Md. Energy John W. Ashworth III, Associate Dean, Adm.-Green Jobs UMMS, Baltimore Workforce Investment Workforce Board-Support 2/25 Advocacy Day University of Janet Allan, Dean, UMSON Maryland School of Students, Faculty, and Alumnae of the Nursing University of Maryland School of Nursing 2/26 Finance SB 80 Distribution of Kathleen Dachille, UMSOL-Support Tobacco-Related Products to Minors

47 Date Committee Subject Individual 2/26 Finance SB 697 Business Kathleen Dachille, UMSOL-Oppose Regulation - Tobacco Products Distribution 2/26 Appropriations- Maryland Technology Karen Rothenberg, UMSOL-Support Education & Development Corp. Economic Budget – Stem Cell Development Funding 2/26 Judiciary HB 570 Family Law- Richard P. Barth, UMSSW-Support Adoption-Child’s Age of Consent 2/26 Health & HB 574 Prescription David A. Knapp, PhD, Professor, University Government Drugs- Evidence- of Maryland School of Pharmacy-Support Operations Based Prescriber with Amendments Education & Outreach 2/26 Appropriations HB 789 Higher David J. Ramsay, President, UMB-Support Ways & Means Education Funding Model for Maryland 2/26 Advocacy Day Maryland Social Students, Faculty, and Alumnae -University of Work Programs Maryland School of Social Work 3/3 Budget & Taxation HB 100 Cigarette Claudia R. Baquet, UMSOM-Support Restitution Fund Kevin J. Cullen, UMSOM-Support Briefing 3/4 Health & HB 576 Dental Norman Tinanoff, UMDS-Support Government Hygienists-Expanded Jacqueline Fried, RDH, MS, Associate Operations Functions Professor & Division Chief, UMDS-Support Marion C. Manski, RDH, MS, Assistant Professor, UMDS-Support Janet P. Weber, Professor, UMDS- Division of Dental Hygiene, Representing Self-Support 3/4 Finance SB 577 Maryland Virginia Keane, MD, Assoc. Professor, Covers All Children Pediatrics, UMSOM, Representing Self- Act of 2009 Support 3/4 Health & HB 597 Steven M. Scharf, UMSOM-Support Government Polysomnographic Operations Technologists 3/4 Health & HB 673 Patient William F. Regine, DM DPhil, Chief, Government Referrals-Imaging & Radiation & Oncology, University of Operations Radiation Therapy Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center, Services- UMMS-Oppose Accreditation Michael J. Naslund, MD, Interim Chief of Urology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Representing Self-Support 3/4 Health & HB 677 Patient William F. Regine, UMMS-Oppose Government Referrals - Radiation Michael J. Naslund, UMSOM, Representing Operations Therapy Services Self-Support 3/4 Finance SB 577 Maryland Virginia Keane, UMSOM, Representing Self- Covers All Children Support with Amendment Act of 2009

48 Date Committee Subject Individual 3/4 Finance SB 852 Health Steve Schenkel, MD, University of Maryland Insurance-Benefit School of Medicine, Representing Self- Assignments Support 3/5 Finance SB 770 Commercial Kathleen Dachille, UMSOL-Oppose Law - Maryland Cigarette Sales Below Cost Act 3/5 Ways & Means HB 493 David Block, President and CEO, Gliknik, Biotechnology Inc., UMB BioPark - Representing Self- Investment Incentive Support Tax Credit 3/6 Budget & Taxation SB 275 Higher David J. Ramsay, President, UMB-Support Education, Health Education–Higher & Environmental Education Investment Affairs Fund-Funding 3/6 Budget & Taxation SB 861 Higher David J. Ramsay, President, UMB-Support Education, Health Education Funding & Environmental Model for Maryland Affairs Act of 2009 3/10 Judicial SB 288 Vehicle Laws Kathleen Dachille, UMSOL-Support Proceedings - Prohibition Against Smoking in Vehicle With Young Child 3/10 Environmental HB 966 Vehicle Laws Kathleen Dachille, UMSOL-Support Matters - Prohibition Against Smoking in Vehicle With Young Child 3/10 Finance SB 856 Maryland John W. Ashworth, UMMS, Representing Energy Self-Support Administration-Green Jobs Workforce 3/10 Health & HB 1107 Health - Reba Cornman, Director, Geriatrics & Government Task Force on Gerontology Education & Research, Operations Alzheimer's Disease University of Maryland, Baltimore, Representing Self-Support 3/10 Ways & Means HB 1274 Janet L. Susan Wozenski, JD, MPH, University of Hoffman Loan Maryland School of Nursing, Representing Assistance Self-Support Repayment Program 3/11 Budget & Taxation SB 825 Moist Snuff - Kathleen Dachille, UMSOM-Oppose Taxation and Regulation 3/11 Education, Health SB 602 Dental Norman Tinanoff, UMDS-Support & Environmental Hygienists-Expanded Jacqueline Fried, UMDS-Support Affairs Functions Marion C. Manski, UMDS Division of Dental Hygiene-Support Janet P. Weber, Representing Self-Support Holly W. Rohrbach, Student, University of Maryland Dental School-Support

49 Date Committee Subject Individual 3/11 Education, Health SB 662 Patient Mohan Suntha, MD, Vice Chairman, & Environmental Referrals - Imaging Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland Affairs and Radiation Greenebaum Cancer Center, UMMS-Oppose Therapy Services 3/11 Budget & Taxation SB 764 David J. Ramsay, President, UMB-Letter of & Finance Reorganization of Concern State Government - John Spearman, UMMS-Oppose Department of Brenda Fosler Johnson, UMMS-Oppose Emergency Services 3/11 Education, Health SB 627 Loan Nancy Ryan Lowitt, UMSOM-Support & Environmental Assistance James Baronas, UMSOM-Support Affairs Repayment and Claudia R. Baquet, UMSOM-Support Practice Assistance for Physicians 3/11 Education, Health SB 700 Pharmacists - Natalie D. Eddington, UMSOP-Support & Environmental Administration of Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, Assistant Affairs Vaccinations - Professor, University of Maryland School of Expanded Authority Pharmacy-Support 3/11 Finance SB 708 Prescription David A. Knapp, UMSOP-Letter of Drugs-Evidence- Information Based Prescriber Education & Outreach Program 3/11 Budget & Taxation SB 843 State Magaly Rodriguez DeBittner, PharmD, BCPS, Employee & Retiree CDE, Chair, Department of Pharmacy Health & Welfare Practice & Science, University of Maryland Benefits Program - School of Pharmacy-Support Wellness 3/12 Judicial SB 421 SSA Adm. - Richard P. Barth, UMSSW-Support Proceedings Children at Substantial Risk of Abuse or Neglect 3/16 Appropriations HB 102 Capital Robert A. Chrencik, President and Chief Health & Human Budget – University Executive Officer, University of Maryland Resources of Maryland Medical Medical System-Support Systems Thomas Scalea, MD, FACS, Physician-In- Chief, University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center-Support 3/17 Health & HB 1159 Economic James L. Hughes, UMB-Letter of Concern Government Development- Operations Maryland Stem Cell Research Act 3/17 Economic Matters HB 680 Commercial Kathleen Dachille, UMSOL-Oppose Law - Maryland Cigarette Sales Below Cost Act 3/18 Finance SB 813 Health Care Kathleen Dachille, UMSOL-Support Affordability Act of 2009

50 Date Committee Subject Individual 3/18 Finance SB 948 Economic James L. Hughes, UMB-Letter of Concern Development- Maryland Stem Cell Research Act 3/18 Judiciary HB 1372 Judgments - Kathleen Dachille, UMSOL-Oppose Appeals - Supersedeas Bond 3/19 Health & HB 1146 David J. Ramsay, President, UMB-Letter of Government Reorganization of Concern Operations State Government - John Spearman, UMMS-Oppose Department of Emergency Services 3/19 Budget & Taxation HB 102 Capital David J. Ramsay, President, UMB-Support Capital Budget Budget – UMB and William J. Cooper, Associate Dean for UMMS Administration and COO, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy-Support Robert A. Chrencik, UMMS-Support Thomas Scalea, UMMS-Support 3/23 Appropriations HB 102 Capital David J. Ramsay, President, UMB-Support Education & Budget - UMB William J. Cooper, UMSOP-Support Economic Development 3/24 Ways & Means HB 1237 Moist Snuff Kathleen Dachille, UMSOL-Oppose - Taxation and Regulation 3/25 Education, Health SB 928 State Board Louis DePaola, University of Maryland & Environmental of Dental Examiners- Dental School, Representing Self-Oppose Affairs Dentists-Informed Howard Strassler, University of Maryland Consent-Materials Dental School, Representing Self-Oppose Containing Mercury 3/26 Ways & Means HB 1558 Student Avni Serkin, Innovations Institute, University Stigma Act of Maryland School of Medicine, Representing Self-Support 3/31 Education, Health SB 1065 Standing Jane Barrett, Director, Environmental Law & Environmental Miscellaneous Clinic, University of Maryland School of Affairs Environmental Law, Representing Self-Support Protection Proceedings and Judicial Review 3/31 Health & SB 63 – Oral Health Norman Tinanoff, UMDS-Support Government Safety Net Program – Jane Casper, Chair, Dental Action Committee- Operations Sunset Repeal Support 4/1 Finance HB 735 State William Kirwan, PhD, Chancellor, University Personnel - At-Will System of Maryland - Oppose Employment 4/1 Health & DHMH Carter Center David J. Ramsay, President, UMB-Support Government Letter of Information Operations to Chair

52 APPENDIX II Joint Chairmen's Report (JCR) - Summary of Significant Reporting Requirements Items Relate to the State Operating Budget (HB 100) and State Capital Budget (HB 102) 2009 Session of the Maryland General Assembly

At each session of the State legislature, the budget committees issue a report, known as the "JCR" or "Joint Chairmen's Report." The JCR details all reductions made to requested appropriations by the legislature, expresses statements of legislative intent, provides policy guidance for executive and judicial branches of government, and requires the submission of certain data and reports.

The table below summarizes the JCR items that may be of interest to the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB).

Budget Code 2009 Session JCR Items Relating to Due By Agency HB 100- State Operating Budget or JCR Page HB 102- State Capital Budget

D79Z MHIP Financial and Enrollment Data - Requires report with updated MHIP data, including expenditure estimates and forecasts for fiscal 2011 and 28 2012. D79Z MHIP Financial and Enrollment Data - Requires report on actual fiscal 12/31/09 MHIP 2009 medical claims expenditures, enrollment and fund balance. 28 F10A Health Insurance Claim Costs - Restricts funds pending report on the 45 days prior DBM causes and implications of cost changes. to expenditure 35 F10A Teleworking Oversight - Requires a report on teleworking oversight 09/01/09 DBM mechanisms and recommendations and related costs to enhance 35 productivity in teleworking situations. H Energy Conservation - Requires report on statewide utility costs and Annually, DGS consumption by agency, efforts made to reduce consumption, and beginning 41 compliance with State Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act. 11/01/09 H Facility Maintenance and Renewal Program - Requires strategic plan to 10/01/09 DGS improve processes, including facility assessment, project management 41-42 and procurement, programmatic funding levels and sources, assessments and surcharges, and recommended legislation. M00F Babies Born Healthy - Restricts funds and requires report on the 11/01/09 DHMH collaborative efforts between the Office of Minority Health and Family 81-82 Health Administration on their infant programs and allocation of funding. M00F Oral Health - Requires budget details in annual report required by the DHMH Oral Health Safety Net Act. 82

53 Budget Code 2009 Session JCR Items Relating to Due By Agency HB 100- State Operating Budget or JCR Page HB 102- State Capital Budget

M00F HIV Testing/ Correctional Facilities - Requires a report on the feasibility 11/01/09 DHMH of testing inmates for HIV at release and connecting them with medical 83 services. M00F Antiviral treatments - Requires a report on purchase of antiviral 10/01/09 DHMH treatments at the federal subsidized price. 84 M00L Carter Center - Restricts funding pending a report on the proposed 12/15/09 DHMH changes at the Carter Center. 86-87 M00L Carter Center - States intent and requires a report on the movement of 01/15/10 UMB the outpatient mental health clinic and the Program of Assertive 86-87 Community Treatment to the Pratt Street facility. M00L Mental Hygiene Staffing - Requires an update to the staffing study 11/01/09 DHMH conducted in 2007. 88 M00Q Medicaid Enrollment Barriers - Requires a report, after consultation with 11/01/09 DHMH stakeholders, regarding options to reduce enrollment barriers at the 100 community level, including outstation eligibility workers and compliance with federal requirements. M00Q MCO Examinations - Requires DHMH to request the Maryland 12/01/09 DHMH Insurance Administration to undertake a market conduct study and 93 financial examiniation of all HealthChoice managed care orgnizations, including payment practices, actuarial reimbursement rates, and compliance with medical loss ratios. M00Q Bon Secours Hospital - Provides a $5 million grant pending a report 45 days prior DHMH from the Board of Directors detailing a long-term solution to the to grant 95-96 hospital's financial issues, including expanded primary care access, release improved mental health services, and substance abuse services. M00Q Long-Term Care - Requires a report on plans to provide incentive 12/01/09 DHMH payments to long-term care facilities and community providers to reward 98 quality and on a policy under development with the HSCRC of not reimbursing hospitals for "never events" or hospital acquired conditions. M00Q Medicaid Expansion - Requires a report on the fiscal 2009 expansion to 11/01/09 DHMH parents with incomes up to 116% of the Federal Poverty Guideline 99 (FPG), including details on enrollment, costs, demographics, and reconciliation with hospitals of the averted uncompensated care savings. MEMSOF Base Assessment Study - Requires a report with recommendations on the 12/01/10 MIEMSS/DSP desired number of bases and helicopters. 102

54 Budget Code 2009 Session JCR Items Relating to Due By Agency HB 100- State Operating Budget or JCR Page HB 102- State Capital Budget

MEMSOF Emergency Transport - Requires a report on the status of implementing 06/30/10 MIEMSS the recommendations of the NTSB and expert panel. 102-103 MEMSOF Trauma and Specialty Referral Centers - Requires the Maryland Health 09/30/09 MHCC Care Commission,with MIEMSS, to evaluate the network of centers and 104 make recommendations to add or consolidate trauma centers. N00G Child Welfare Caseloads - Requires interim report on caseload data and 12/01/09 DHR filled positions assigned by jurisdiction for specified caseload types. 107-108 N00G Child Welfare Caseloads - Requires final report on caseload data and 03/01/10 DHR filled positions assigned by jurisdiction for specified caseload types. 107-108 N00G Child Welfare Services Staffing Needs - Requires a report concerning DHR the comparison of staffing needs using current methodology versus a 109 new needs analysis system. N00H Child Support Employee Bonuses - Requires an evaluation of the bonus 12/01/09 DHR program at child support demonstration sites. 110 R100 Model for Funding Higher Education - Urges MHEC, in collaboration MHEC with higher education institutions, to implement the Commission's 271 recommendations, including an assessment of costs of meeting all facility space needs at public campuses and the capital priorities of the HBIs to ensure allignment with undergraduate and doctoral program needs and further urges Governor to accelerate HBI capital projects. R30B Faculty Workload - Requires an annual report on the instructional 12/01/09 USM workload of tenured and tenured-track faculty. 144 R30B Institutional Aid - Requires data for each USM institution on all 01/01/10 USM Office categories of institutional aid (need-based, merit, mission and athletic). 151 R62I USM at Hagerstown - MHEC, in collaboration with USM, is required to 09/01/09 MHEC convene a workgroup to study the fiscal and programmatic viability of 153 the center to ensure its success. R62I Model for Funding Higher Education - Urges MHEC and higher 12/01/09 MHEC, et al. education institutions to implement Commission recommendations 160-161 within exisiting resources,cites specific goals and requires a progress report. R75T Obscene Materials - Requires policies from governing boards on the use 09/01/09 USM, et al. of public education facilities for displaying obscene materials 167

55 Budget Code 2009 Session JCR Items Relating to Due By Agency HB 100- State Operating Budget or JCR Page HB 102- State Capital Budget

R75T Graduate Assistants and Adjunct Faculty - Requires USM to convene a 11/01/09 USM work group and report on graduate assistants and adjunct faculty, 167-168 including their status, efforts to improve their conditions (salaries, benefits, policies and working conditions) and role, and cite any impact of collective bargaining or other options. RB28 Satellite Law Center - Requires USM to study the feasibility, costs and 09/01/09 USM-UB benefits of satellite law center of the University of Baltimore in Prince 267 George's County at an exisiting regional higher education center. T Biotech Investment Tax Credit - Restricts appropriation pending a report 45 days prior DBED on the program performance measurement data. to expenditure 176-177 Uncodified Across-the-Board-Reductions - Section 26 of HB 100 makes any across- USM the-board reductions in current unrestricted and general funds applicable 192-193 to public higher education. Section 22 requires $30 million in General Fund across-the-board reductions for State agencies by the Governor. Uncodified Federal Funds - Sections 28 and 29 of HB 100 require a report on federal With budget DBM monies received by the State and policies for use of federal funds. submission 193-195 Uncodified Interagency Agreements - Section 33 of HB 100 requires a consolidated DBM report on all interagency agreements in excess of $100,000. 197-198 Uncodified Public-Private Partnership Work Groups - Section 53 of HB 100 12/01/09 Leg/Exec expresses intent to establish a joint legislative and executive work group 215 in the 2009 interim to study public-private partnerships with recommendations for legislation. Uncodified Public-Private Partnerships - Section 54 of HB 100 requires a report 08/01/09 USM, et al. listing all projects where public-private partnerships are under 215 consideration or in any phase of development. Uncodified Public-Private Partnerships - Section 13 of HB 102 restricts any State 30 days prior Any agency for fiscal 2010 from entering into a public-private partnership for to solicitation 339 a capital project, unless the agency submits a preliminary project plan (30 days prior to solicitation), a financing plan (45 days prior to a master development agreement), and the State Treasurer, Comptroller and bond rating agencies have determined if the project is a capital lease and subject to debt affordability limits.

56 APPENDIX III

Key Bills of Special Interest to the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) That Require Work Groups, Regulations, Reports or Waivers 2009 Session of the Maryland General Assembly

Item Key: Com: Committees or official groups, such as task forces, councils, etc. Prg: Programs such as pilot projects, demonstrations, etc. Reg: Regulations or official guidelines, plans, forms, etc. Rpt: Reports such as preliminary, progress, annual, final, etc. Wvr: Waiver - agencies or departments may be mandated to apply for a waiver Acronyms AG - Attorney General HGO - Health and Government Operations Committee, House AELR - Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review Committee HMO - Health Maintenance Organization APP - Appropriations Committee, House HSCRC – Health Services Cost Review Commission B&T - Budget and Taxation Committee, Senate JAC - Joint Audit Committee BPW - Board of Public Works JPR - Judicial Proceedings Committee, Senate 57 BRAC - Base Realignment and Closure JUD - Judiciary Committee, House DBED - Department of Business and Economic Development LPC - Legislative Policy Committee DBM - Department of Budget and Management MGA - Maryland General Assembly DGS - Department of General Services MHA - MD Hospital Association DHMH - Department of Health and Mental Hygiene MHCC - Maryland Health Care Commission DHR - Department of Human Resources MHEC - Maryland Higher Education Commission DJS - Department of Juvenile Services MHIP - MD Health Insurance Plan DLLR - Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation MIA - Maryland Insurance Administration DLS - Department of Legislative Services MIEMSS – Maryland Institute for Emergency DOA – Department of Aging Medical Services Systems DOD – Department of Disabilities MVA - Motor Vehicle Administration DOE - Department of the Environment SSA - Social Security Administration DOP - Department of Planning UMB - University of Maryland, Baltimore DOT - Department of Transportation UMBC - University of Maryland, Baltimore County DSP - Department of State Police UMBI - University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute ECM - Economic Matters Committee, House UMCP - University of Maryland, College Park EHE - Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee, Senate UMMS - University of Maryland Medical System ENV - Environmental Matters Committee, House USM - University System of Maryland FIN - Finance Committee, Senate W&M – Ways and Means Committee, House GOC - Governor's Office for Children Bill Title Requirements Item Due By HB0026 Public Schools - Requires principals to designate nut free table and establish procedures Reg Children with for child self-administration of medication. Anaphylactic Allergies - Reduction of Risk HB0070 Department of Health Requires DHMH to report on the amount of MCO money held in the Rpt Annual 06/01/10 and Mental Hygiene - trust and the amount paid out in the event of insolvency. Commissions, Programs, Requires DHMH to review and compare physican provider payment Rpt Annual 01/01/10 and Reports -Revision rates under the Medicare fee schedule, Medicaid fee-for-service, and Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs); conduct an analysis of the fee-for-service reimbursement rates paid in other states and develop a schedule to bring fee-for-service rates to a level that assures that all health care providers are reimbursed adequately. Requries DHMH to report findings and recommendations for oral Rpt Annual 09/30/09 health program, availability and accessibility of dentists in Medicaid Program, and outcomes of MCOs and DMCOs, including loss ratios, corrective actions, allocation and use of funds. HB0076 Hepatitis C Virus - Extends sunset for DHMH to conduct outreach and public awareness Prg Sunsets 06/30/13 Public Awareness and campaigns regarding Hepatitis C. 58 Outreach - Sunset Extension Bill Title Requirements Item Due By HB0085 College Textbook Requires publishers that sell college textbooks to provide via written Prg SB0183 Competition and or electronic format specific textbook information including price and Affordability Act of 2009 to make available unbundled versions of textbooks and supplemental materials. Requires public higher education institutions to develop a process Prg where faculty acknowledge the differences in cost and content of newer textbook editions. Requires public higher education institutions to develop informational Prg campaign to make faculty, students, and bookstores aware of price of textbooks/supplemental material, and create a best practices process for faculty to select textbooks. Requires higher education institutions to make textbook information Reg available to bookstores, students, and the public via their website no more than 3 weeks following the textbook selection. Requires MHEC to compile best practices, feasibility reports, and Rpt 12/31/11 statewide policy initiatives that will reduce textbook costs. Requires USM to submit to Board of Regents a report of changes Rpt 12/01/10 USM can make to decrease costs of textbooks for students. 59 Requires MHEC in consultation with USM to conduct a feasibility Rpt 12/01/11 study regarding textbook rentals and establishment of statewide digital marketplace for textbooks and supplemental material. Requires public higher education institutes to report to MHEC Rpt 12/01/11 regarding efforts to lower the costs of textbooks for their students. HB0093 Mortality and Quality Alters membership to include Deputy Secretary of Behavioral Health Com Sunsets 12/31/12 SB0305 Review Committee - and Disabilities and extends sunset. Sunset Extension and Membership HB0113 Department of Health Requires DHMH to convene a stakeholder group including legislators, Com No date and Mental Hygiene - providers, consumers, and advocates to evaluate and make Long-Term Care recommendations regarding a coordinated long term program. Supports and Services- Requires DHMH to submit a feasibility report on creation of Rpt Interim 09/01/09 Report coordinated care program to reform the provision of long-term care services under Medicaid. Final 12/01/10 Bill Title Requirements Item Due By HB0120 Task Force to Study Reconstitutes, alters membership, and extends sunset for task force to Com Sunsets 06/30/10 SB0140 How to Improve study how to improve financial literacy in the state. Financial Literacy in the Requires task force to report its recommendations regarding improving Rpt Final 12/01/09 State -Membership, financial literacy. Staffing, and Extension HB0145 Health Insurance - Requires MIA to study and report on dental provider contracts and the Rpt 12/31/09 SB0481 Dental Provider Panels - impact the contracts have on the profession. Provider Contracts HB0154 Environment - Green Requires Maryland Green Building Council to provide Rpt Annual 11/01/09 SB0212 Building Council recommendations concerning how to expand green building practices.

HB0173 Health Occupations - Alters membership of the Athletic Trainer Advisory Committee to Com Sunsets 07/01/13 SB0247 Maryland Athletic include an additional consumer, a licensed physical therapist, and a Trainers Act licensed occupational therapist. Extends sunset until 2013. HB0244 Joint Committee on Repeals sunset and requires report on work and recommendations of Rpt Annual 12/01/09 SB0413 Children, Youth, and the Committee. Families - Repeal of Sunset 60 HB0255 Health Maintenance Authorizes and sunsets enhanced payments for nonparticipating Prg Starts 01/01/10 SB0380 Organizations - providers. Payments to Sunsets 12/31/14 Nonparticipating Providers Authorizes MIA to adopt regulations to investigate and enforce Reg violations by insurers. Requires MHCC to review payments to providers by HMOs and report Rpt No date findings to MIA. HB0259 Environmental Health Authorizes DOE to adopt regulations for reimbursement to counties Reg Monitoring and Testing - for certain costs pertaining to environmental health monitoring or Reimbursement of Costs testing. Bill Title Requirements Item Due By HB0268 Welfare to Work - Job Requires DBM to develop and implement a program to hire FIP Prg Skills Enhancement recipients, children of current or former recipients, foster youth and Program - Green Jobs others within State government. Requires DHR to report on its plans to increase participation of current Rpt Progress 09/01/09 and former FIP recipients in job skills enhancement programs and employment in energy sector. Requires DBM to submit progress reports on implementation of the Rpt Progress 01/01/10 hiring plan. Annual 11/01/11

HB0294 Smart, Green, and Requires DOP to publish a report every two years on the statewide Rpt Bi-Ann 01/01/11 SB0273 Growing - Local impacts of adequate public facilities ordinances. Government Planning - 01/01/13 Planning Visions HB0311 Freedom of Association Requires law enforcement agencies to adopt policies on covert Prg 01/01/10 SB0266 and Assembly Protection investigations of persons engaged in first amendment activities and a Act of 2009 policy for agency collection, dissemination, and retention of info. Requires DSP to adopt regulations governing covert investigations of Reg 01/01/10 persons engaged in first amendment activities and regulations for 61 collection, dissemination, and retention of records. Requires DSP to report on the department's efforts to revise or Rpt 01/01/10 discontinue use of the Case Explorer database in connection with the Department's intelligence-gathering activities and efforts to contact persons described in Case Explorer database found to have no suspicion of terrorism. Bill Title Requirements Item Due By HB0315 Greenhouse Gas Establishes a task force of labor, industry, environmental organizations Com 10/01/15 SB0278 Emissions Reduction Act and underserved communities to oversee an independent study on the of 2009 economic impact of GHG. The independent study is to be conducted by a "higher education institution." Requires DOE to submit plan and convene public workshops for Reg Interim 12/31/11 comments on proposed plan. Final 12/31/12

Requires DOE to publish an inventory of statewide GHG emissions for Rpt Prelim 06/01/11 2006 and project inventory for 2020; thereafter required to report every 3 years. Prelim 06/01/14 Requires DOE to monitor the implementation of the plan and submit a Rpt report every 5 years. Requires DOE to report progress towards achieving 2020 emissions Rpt 10/01/15 reduction and other specific functions. HB0317 Silver Alert Program - Requires DSP to adopt guidelines and procedures for issuing a silver Reg 07/01/09 SB0303 Establishment alert program for certain cognitively impaired missing persons. 62 HB0367 Maryland Quiet Vehicles Reconstitutes and extends sunset for the MD Quiet Vehicles and Com Sunsets 12/31/10 SB0370 and Pedestrian Safety Pedestrian Safety Task Force. Task Force - Requires findings and recommendations including minimum sound Rpt Final 12/31/10 Reconstitution levels of vehicles and use of technology to improve safety for blind pedestrians. HB0389 Minority Business Requires the Governor's Office on Minority Affairs (GOMA) to create Prg No date SB0611 Enterprise Program - a fraud hotline for reporting violations on the misuse of MBE firms. Prohibitions HB0411 Community Mental Authorizes MHA to adopt regulations for the collection of annual Reg SB0492 Health Services financial statements from all licensed community mental health Programs - Financial services programs. Statements and Salary Information HB0419 Wellness Report Card Requires University of Maryland School of Public Health, within Com Pilot Program existing resources, to provide a forum for stakeholder collaboration, analyze results of the pilot program, and ensure effective implementation of the pilot program. Requries DHMH to establish and sunset a wellness report card pilot Prg Sunsets 09/30/14 program. Bill Title Requirements Item Due By HB0438 Joint Information Requires committee to report recommendations to strengthen the Rpt Annual 12/01/09 Technology and information technology and biotechnology sectors. Biotechnology Committee - Membership and Duties HB0471 Minority Business Requires DOT, EHE, HGO, and AG to evaluate state bonding and Rpt 12/01/10 SB0489 Enterprise Certification - financial data to determine whether the cap on net worth for MBEs Cap on Personal Net should further be adjusted. Worth HB0500 Baltimore City - Medical Requires Baltimore City public schools to give DHMH the names of Prg Starts 07/01/09 Assistance Programs - students eligible for the National School Lunch Program (unless Eligibility and parents elect out) for purposes of enrollment in the Maryland Sunsets 06/30/11 Enrollment Information Children's Health Program (MCHP). Mailings to Students Requires DHMH to report the effectiveness of the outreach mailings Rpt Sunsets 06/30/11 including number of parents receiving the information and number enrolled in MCHP. HB0503 Health - Maryland Establishes and sunsets the MD Commission on Autism with Com Status 09/30/12 SB0963 Commission on Autism membership including 2 representatives from "different institutions of

63 higher learning" with clinical and research expertise relating to children and adults with autism. Charges the Commission with developing a comprehensive statewide Prg plan for training, treatment and services for individuals with autism spectrum disorders. Requires the Commission to provide recommendations related to Rpt Interim 06/01/11 issues surrounding autism spectrum disorders. Final 09/30/12

HB0507 Inmates - Hepatitis C - Requires DPSCS in collaboration with DHR and DHMH, to develop a Reg 07/01/10 Counseling and Referral process to refer an inmate with Hepatitis C to DHR or DHMH for to Medical Home enrollment in Medicaid or PAC upon release. Department to develop regulations to implement new process. HB0510 Health Occupations - Requires Board of Social Work Examiners to establish a workgroup Com No date Licensure of Social consisting of Board, social work associations, human service Workers providers, and other stakeholders to make recommendations on licensure statute and workforce issues. Requires report on findings and recommendations. Rpt 01/01/10 Bill Title Requirements Item Due By HB0521 Maryland Trauma Requires MHCC and HSCRC to establish and sunset a methodology to Prg Sunsets 09/30/13 SB0464 Physician Services calculate costs incurred by trauma physicians and trauma centers Fund - Rural Trauma eligible to receive reimbursement. Centers - Reimbursement HB0576 Dental Hygienists - Requires Board of Dental Examiners to establish education and Reg Expanded Functions clinical examination requirements for dental hygienists surrounding specified procedures. HB0585 Health Insurance - Use Requires MHCC to approve an independent entity to review physician Prg SB0661 of Physician Rating rating systems. Systems by Carriers Requires MIA to report the number of appeals filed by physicians and Rpt Annual 12/01/10 the number of entities approved as rating examiners. HB0595 State Government - Requires State agencies and units of state government to include in Prg 07/01/12 Recycling Program - their recycling plans a system for recycling glass, aluminum, paper and Aluminum, Glass, Paper, plastic, and placement of collection bins. and Plastic HB0610 Health Insurance - Bona Requires MIA to create regulations regarding incentives offered to Reg SB0638 Fide Wellness participants in bona fide wellness programs. Programs - Incentives 64 HB0637 Task Force on Prisoner Establishes and sunsets the Task Force on Prisoner Reentry, with Com Sunsets 06/30/12 SB0908 Reentry members with expertise in reentry services for adult or juvenile offenders and one member from Baltimore City with knowledge of local policies and practices relating to employment. Commission to report findings and recommendations. Rpt Interim 12/31/10 Final 12/31/11

HB0674 Health Insurance - Small Requires MHCC to report on the effect of adjustments to the 01/01/13 SB0637 Group Market community rating practices for health status. Regulation - Reqires MHCC to study and report on recommendations to implement Rpt Modifications value based health care services, options for allowing plans with fewer benefits than Standard Plan to be sold in small group market, and posting of premium information on website. HB0683 Post Adoption Support Alters program guidelines for fund distribution and extends sunset.Prg Sunsets 12/31/10 Services Pilot Program Requires DHR to report on number of children and families served, Rpt 12/01/10 number applied for services, types of services provided, and effectiveness of services provided. Bill Title Requirements Item Due By HB0706 Electronic Health Requires MHCC and HSCRC to designate a health information Prg 10/01/09 Records - Regulation and exchange for the state. Also requires MHCC to designate 1 or more Reimbursement management service organizations. 10/01/12 Requires DHMH and MHCC to develop a mechanism to ensure Reg No date Medicaid providers receive payments for the adoption and use of electronic health records. Requires MHCC, in consultation with stakeholders, to adopt Reg 09/01/11 regulations requiring state-regulated payers to provide incentives to providers. Requires MHCC to report on the progress of adoption and use of Rpt 10/01/12 electronic records and recommendations for changes in state laws. Requires MHCC, following consultation with stakeholders, to report Rpt 01/01/11 on recommended regulatory language, and changes needed in state law regarding privacy, funding, and implementation of electronic health records. Requires MHCC to report on the progress in designating a health info Rpt 01/01/10 exchange and potential incentives offered to health care providers.

65 HB0710 Higher Education - Requires postsecondary institutions to determine eligibility for the Prg SB0802 Edward T. Conroy Edward T. Conroy Scholarship Program. Memorial Scholarship Requires postsecondary institutions to report in February and October Rpt Annual 02/01/10 Program - Alterations to MHEC the number of eligible recipients attending the institution. Annual 10/01/10

HB0713 Programs for Children in Delays implementation of outcomes evaluation and reporting Rpt 07/01/11 SB0690 Out-of-Home requirements for residential programs under DOJ contract and foster Placement - System for care home placements. Outcomes Evaluation HB0714 Loan Assistance Creates a Loan Assistance Repayment Program (LARP) for Physicains Prg SB0627 Repayment and Practice funded by revenue generated through an increase in hospital rates as Assistance for Physicians approved by HSCRC or other revenue. Requires MHEC to adopt regulations to implement LARP for Reg physicians, including the maximum number of participants and maximum/minimum loan amount. Requires MHCC and DBED to report on the feasibility of expanding Rpt 12/01/09 the eligibility of State development programs to include assistance to physicans. Bill Title Requirements Item Due By HB0735 State Personnel - At-Will Establishes a legislative Joint Committee on Fair Practices and State Com Employment - Reforms Personnel Oversight charged with oversight of all personnel systems and Reports including "personnel systems of state institutions of higher education." Requires DBM to adopt regulations surrounding recruitment and Reg appointment of certain positions. HB0739 Maryland Medical Requires DHMH and MCOs to establish a process and criteria to Reg SB0952 Assistance Program - qualify addiction treatment providers as panel providers in the network. Substance Abuse Requires MCOs to submit aggregate data to DHMH on outcome Rpt Services reports, number of enrollees in substance abuse treatment services, and how much money was spent on services. HB0756 Cultural and Linguistic Establishes a voluntary Cultural and Linguistic Health Care Provider Prg Health Care Provider Competency Program in DHMH to encourage health professional Competency Program associations to develop or collaborate in the development of training programs in specific cultural and linguistic areas. Requires DHMH to develop a method through which licensing boards Reg will recognize the training received. HB0782 Nursing Facilities - Requires DHMH, in conjunction with representatives from nursing Prg 07/01/10 66 SB0664 Accountability facilities and interested stakeholders, to develop a pay-for-performance Measures - Pay-for- program for nursing homes. Performance Program Requires DHMH to evaluate and phase-in program. Rpt 10/01/10

HB0788 Baltimore City and Extends sunset of Child in Need of Supervision Program. Prg Sunsets 06/30/13 Baltimore County - Child in Need of Supervision Pilot Program - Extension HB0921 Construction Permits - Authorizes a toll on certain construction permit expiration dates and Prg Sunsets 06/30/10 SB0958 Expiration Dates sunsets authority. Requires DOP to report on impact of this bill and whether toll period Rpt 12/31/09 should be extended. Bill Title Requirements Item Due By HB1069 Health Services Cost Requires HSCRC to establish a workgroup on the need for uniform Com Review Commission - policies relating to patient financial assistance and debt collection Financial Assistance and practices, and applying policies to psychiatric and chronic care Debt Collection Policies hospitals. Requires hospitals to develop an information sheet that describes: Reg patients' rights and responsibilities, financial assistance policy, contact information for assistance, and how to apply for Medicaid. Authorizes HSCRC to establish, via regulation, income thresholds Reg higher than 150% for free or reduced cost medical care. Requires acute care hospitals to develop a financial assistance policy Reg for free and reduced cost medical care, for individuals plus or less than 150% of poverty level. Requires HSCRC to report recommendations on incentives for Rpt 10/01/09 hospitals to provide charity care. Requires hospitals to submit debt collection policies to HSCRC. Rpt

HB1336 Minority Business Adds Joint Committee on Fair Practices to list of those receiving MBE Rpt Annual 09/30/10 Enterprise Program - reports from units of State.

67 SB0946 Report to Joint Committee on Fair Practices HB1337 Family Law - State Alters duties of the State Citizens Review Board for Children and local Com SB0933 Citizens Review Board boards of review for children. for Children and Local State board must tabulate and analyze results of case reviews and Rpt Boards of Review - submit findings quarterly to DHR. Duties HB1382 Juvenile Law - Juvenile Requires DJS to adopt regulations for the access and use of Reg Records - Disclosure confidential treatment plans in out-of-home placements for children in DC or VA. HB1403 State Plan for Higher Alters the reporting date when MHEC must submit quadrennial review Rpt 07/01/09 Education Quadrennial of State Plan for Higher Education. Review - Reporting Date HB1404 Higher Education - Requires higher education governing boards, in consultation with Reg No date Children of Fallen State MHEC, to adopt policies to allow a child of a public safety employee or Local Public Safety eligible for a scholarship to be exempt from non-resident tuition. Employees- Exemption from Nonresident Tuition Bill Title Requirements Item Due By HB1486 Prince George's County Extends Prince George's County Hospital Authority's bidding process. Com SB1039 Hospital Authority Designates certain state agencies to "advise" the authority including DHMH, MIEMSS, MD Life Sciences Advisory Board, etc. HB1526 Workforce Creates the Maryland Workforce Corporation to establish a plan and Com Development - Maryland framework to develop workforce programs. The Board of Directors Workforce Corporation includes the USM Chancellor. Requires the Corporation to report financial status and summary of Rpt Annual 04/01/10 activities of the previous fiscal year. HB1561 Maryland Veterans Trust Authorizes Department of Veteran's Affairs to adopt regulations for Reg Fund gifts and grants to the Trust Fund. Requires the Department of Veteran's Affairs to submit a report on the Rpt Annual 08/31/10 status of the trust. HB1569 Standing - Miscellaneous Authorizes DOE to establish regulations for a judicial review. Reg SB1065 Environmental Protection Proceedings and Judicial Review SB0016 Baltimore City and Alters name and extends sunset of Organization of Parents and Prg Sunsets 09/30/12

68 Prince George's County - Teachers Matching Fund Program. Organization of Parents Requires the CEO of Baltimore City schools and Superintendent of PG Rpt Annual 12/01/09 and Teachers - Matching County Schools to report on the Matching Fund Pilot Program. Fund SB0079 Health Insurance - Requires MIA, in consultation with MHCC and other stakeholders, to Rpt 12/01/09 Reform study and report on options to raise or define medical loss ratio requirements in insurance markets. SB0279 Criminal Law - Death Requires Governor's Office on Crime Control and Prevention to report Rpt 11/01/09 Penalty - Evidence on how victim services for survivors of homicide victims should be expanded. SB0554 Chesapeake Bay Authorizes MDE to adopt regulations regarding replacement of on-site Reg No date Nitrogen Reduction Act sewage disposal systems in Critical Areas. of 2009 SB0625 Maryland Building Requires Department of Housing and Community Development to Reg Performance Standards - adopt, by regulations, the International Energy Conservation Code as Energy Conservation and the Maryland Building Performance Standards. Efficiency Bill Title Requirements Item Due By SB0689 High Schools and High Requires MSDE to study and report on the feasibility of establishing Rpt 02/01/10 School Students - partnerships with higher education institutions to implement middle Options for Accelerated college programs for students in high schools. Graduation SB0700 Pharmacists - Requires the Boards of Pharmacy, Physicians, and Nursing to jointly Reg Administration of develop, adopt, and review annually vaccine administration Vaccinations - Expanded regulations. Authority SB0817 Task Force to Study Reconstitutes and extends sunset of task force. Membership includes Com Sunsets 05/31/11 Prison Violence in representatives of criminology department of a Maryland higher ed Maryland - institution, and representative of a Maryland prison reform advocacy Reconstitution group, correctional employees, and legislators. Task Force shall submit reports on findings and recommendations on Rpt Interim 12/31/09 violence, illegal drug use, exposure to lead, and best practices of other states. Final 12/31/10 SB0909 Workplace Fraud Act of Requires DLLR to adopt procedures for the audit process and evidence Reg No date 2009 surrounding improper classification of employers, as well as adopt regulations for guidance on contract work.

69 Authorizes DLLR to establish regulations for content and form of the Reg independent contractor notice. SB1054 State Advisory Council Alters membership to include one representative from nursing home Com on Quality Care at the industry. End of Life - Membership

APPENDIX IV

Significant Bills That Did Not Pass During the 2009 Session

HB 12 / SB 54 Genetic Privacy – Individual’s Genetic Information – Personal Property Rights

HB 16 / SB 660 Labor and Employment – Shift Breaks

HB 180 / SB 160 Hereditary and Congenital Disorders – Newborn Screening

HB 237 / SB 505 Health Care Malpractice – Noneconomic Damages

HB 265 / SB 1063 Emergency Medical Services – EMS Board and Joint Oversight Committee on Emergency Medical Services

HB 304 / SB 272 Maryland False Health Claims Act of 2009

HB 309 / SB 258 Maryland Heritage Structure Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program

HB 445 Maryland Health Care Commission – Personalized Medicine – Study

HB 574 / SB 708 Prescription Drugs – Evidence-Based Prescriber Education and Outreach Program

HB 673 / SB 662 Patient Referrals – Imaging and Radiation Therapy Services – Accreditation

HB 677 Patient Referrals for Radiation Therapy Services

HB 789 / SB 861 Higher Education Funding Model for Maryland Act of 2009

HB 818 / SB 843 State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program – Wellness

HB 900 / SB 402 Maryland Higher Education Commission – Review of Duplicative Academic Programs

HB 1043 Department of Health and Mental Hygiene – State Facilities – Closure

HB 1044 Walter P. Carter Center – Employees, Services, and Naming

HB 1146 / SB 764 Reorganization of State Government – Department of Emergency Services

HB 1159 / SB 948 Economic Development – Maryland Stem Cell Research Act - Revisions

HB 1161 / SB 798 Maryland Anesthesiologist Assistants Act

71 HB 1275 / SB 956 Health Occupations Boards – Revisions

HB 1319 / SB 968 Family Medicine Rural Health Commission

HB 1356 / SB 650 Medevac Helicopter Improvement Act of 2009

HB 1366 / SB 852 Health Insurance – Assignment of Benefits

HB 1530 / SB 844 Public Service Commission – New Electric Generation Facility – Rate Regulation and Contracts

SB 205 State Board of Nursing – Licensing – Licensure by Endorsement – Temporary Limited Licenses

SB 693 Election Law – Maryland Student Voting Rights Act of 2009

SB 1041 Maryland Health Care Commission – State Police – Helicopter Emergency Medical Services

72 INDEX OF BILLS

Bill Page Bill Page

HB 20...... 23 HB 312 /SB 271...... 20 HB 26...... 23 HB 315 /SB 278...... 20 HB 41 /SB 173...... 23 HB 317 /SB 303...... 38 HB 70...... 23 HB 374...... 26 HB 72 /SB 98...... 37 HB 389 /SB 611...... 41 HB 76...... 23 HB 393 /SB 670...... 12 HB 85 /SB 183...... 15 HB 405...... 26 HB 91 /SB 132...... 41 HB 411 /SB 492...... 26 HB 93 /SB 305...... 23 HB 412 /SB 493...... 26 HB 100...... 1 HB 415 /SB 874...... 26 HB 101...... 1 HB 419...... 26 HB 102...... 7 HB 438...... 12 HB 113 /SB 761...... 24 HB 440 /SB 439...... 27 HB 119...... 24 HB 456 /SB 985...... 27 HB 120 /SB 140...... 15 HB 457...... 41 HB 124 /SB 187...... 41 HB 461...... 42 HB 141...... 24 HB 462...... 27 HB 142...... 24 HB 471 /SB 489...... 42 HB 144 /SB 421...... 24 HB 487 /SB 231...... 27 HB 145 /SB 481...... 24 HB 493 /SB 800...... 12 HB 154 /SB 212...... 19 HB 498...... 12 HB 173 /SB 247...... 25 HB 500...... 27 HB 200...... 11 HB 503 /SB 963...... 27 HB 235...... 25 HB 507...... 28 HB 242...... 11 HB 510 /SB 628...... 28 HB 244 /SB 413...... 25 HB 521 /SB 464...... 28 HB 250 /SB 759...... 25 HB 526 /SB 646...... 28 HB 252 /SB 309...... 25 HB 533...... 42 HB 255 /SB 380...... 25 HB 538 /SB 372...... 15 HB 259...... 19 HB 544 /SB 364...... 13 HB 268...... 11 HB 560...... 38 HB 288 /SB 368...... 11 HB 576 /SB 602...... 28 HB 289 /SB 67...... 41 HB 579 /SB 341...... 28 HB 292 /SB 269...... 12 HB 580...... 29 HB 294 /SB 273...... 19 HB 585 /SB 661...... 29 HB 295 /SB 276...... 19 HB 590 /SB 716...... 29 HB 296 /SB 267...... 37 HB 595...... 20 HB 297 /SB 280...... 19 HB 597 /SB 433...... 29 HB 299...... 37 HB 598...... 7 HB 300/ SB 274...... 12 HB 610 /SB 638...... 29 HB 301 /SB 259...... 37 HB 613...... 38 HB 302 /SB 268...... 37 HB 626...... 38 HB 303 /SB 265...... 37 HB 635...... 39 HB 305 /SB 263...... 38 HB 637 /SB 908...... 39 HB 306/ SB 257...... 15 HB 641/SB 211...... 42 HB 310 /SB 270...... 12 HB 644...... 42 HB 311 /SB 266...... 38 HB 654 /SB 951...... 30

73 INDEX OF BILLS

Bill Page Bill Page

HB 674 /SB 637...... 30 SB 58 ...... 39 HB 683...... 30 SB 63 ...... 34 HB 705 /SB 862...... 30 SB 67/ HB 289...... 41 HB 706...... 30 SB 69 ...... 20 HB 710 /SB 802...... 15 SB 70 ...... 34 HB 713 /SB 690...... 31 SB 79 ...... 35 HB 714 /SB 627...... 16 SB 81 ...... 44 HB 725 /SB 791...... 31 SB 83 ...... 35 HB 735...... 42 SB 84 ...... 35 HB 739 /SB 952...... 31 SB 98 /HB 72...... 37 HB 756...... 31 SB 132 /HB 91...... 41 HB 782 /SB 664...... 32 SB 140 /HB 120...... 15 HB 788...... 32 SB 151 ...... 39 HB 921 /SB 958...... 13 SB 173 /HB 41...... 23 HB 937...... 16 SB 183 /HB 85...... 15 HB 948...... 16 SB 187 /HB 124...... 41 HB 957 /SB 796...... 32 SB 211 /HB 641...... 42 HB 975 /SB 591...... 43 SB 212 /HB 154...... 19 HB 977 /SB 592...... 43 SB 231 /HB 487...... 27 HB 1069/ SB 776...... 32 SB 242 ...... 35 HB 1071 /SB 854...... 32 SB 247 /HB 173...... 25 HB 1078 /SB 47...... 20 SB 257 /HB 306...... 15 HB 1124...... 13 SB 259 /HB 301...... 37 HB 1150...... 33 SB 263 /HB 305...... 38 HB 1179...... 43 SB 265 /HB 303...... 37 HB 1192 /SB 556...... 13 SB 266 /HB 311...... 38 HB 1194...... 43 SB 267 /HB 296...... 37 HB 1195...... 33 SB 268/ HB 302...... 37 HB 1264 /SB 879...... 16 SB 269 /HB 292...... 12 HB 1273...... 39 SB 270 /HB 310...... 12 HB 1297...... 43 SB 271 /HB 312...... 20 HB 1336 /SB 946...... 43 SB 273 /HB 294...... 19 HB 1337 /SB 933...... 33 SB 274/ HB 300...... 12 HB 1382...... 33 SB 276 /HB 295...... 19 HB 1403...... 16 SB 278 /HB 315...... 20 HB 1404...... 16 SB 280 /HB 297...... 19 HB 1429...... 13 SB 303/ HB 317...... 38 HB 1435...... 17 SB 305 /HB 93...... 23 HB 1465...... 17 SB 309 /HB 252...... 25 HB 1466...... 33 SB 341 /HB 579...... 28 HB 1468...... 34 SB 364/ HB 544...... 13 HB 1472...... 34 SB 368 /HB 288...... 11 HB 1475...... 34 SB 372 /HB 538...... 15 HB 1486 /SB 1039...... 34 SB 380 /HB 255...... 25 HB 1526...... 13 SB 413 /HB 244...... 25 HB 1561...... 44 SB 421 /HB 144...... 24 HB 1569 /SB 1065...... 20 SB 433 /HB 597...... 29 SB 12...... 44 SB 439 /HB 440...... 27 SB 47 /HB 1078...... 20 SB 464 /HB 521...... 28

74 INDEX OF BILLS

Bill Page Bill Page

SB 481 /HB 145...... 24 SB 489 /HB 471...... 42 SB 492 /HB 411...... 26 SB 493 /HB 412...... 26 SB 556 /HB 1192...... 13 SB 568...... 44 SB 591 /HB 975...... 43 SB 592/ HB 977...... 43 SB 602 /HB 576...... 28 SB 611 /HB 389...... 41 SB 625...... 20 SB 627 /HB 714...... 16 SB 628 /HB 510...... 28 SB 636...... 35 SB 637 /HB 674...... 30 SB 638 /HB 610...... 29 SB 646 /HB 526...... 28 SB 661 /HB 585...... 29 SB 664 /HB 782...... 32 SB 670 /HB 393...... 12 SB 689...... 17 SB 690 /HB 713...... 31 SB 700...... 36 SB 716 /HB 590...... 29 SB 759 /HB 250...... 25 SB 761/ HB 113...... 24 SB 776 /HB 1069...... 32 SB 791 /HB 725...... 31 SB 796 /HB 957...... 32 SB 800 /HB 493...... 12 SB 802 /HB 710...... 15 SB 817...... 39 SB 854 /HB 1071...... 32 SB 862 /HB 705...... 30 SB 874 /HB 415...... 26 SB 879 /HB 1264...... 16 SB 908 /HB 637...... 39 SB 933 /HB 1337...... 33 SB 946/ HB 1336...... 43 SB 951 /HB 654...... 30 SB 952 /HB 739...... 31 SB 958/ HB 921...... 13 SB 963 /HB 503...... 27 SB 985 /HB 456...... 27 SB 1039 /HB 1486...... 34 SB 1054...... 36 SB 1065 /HB 1569...... 20

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