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Bill would let Maryland health secretary assign designee to handle appeals for opioid outreach program approvals
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House Bill 94 would let the Maryland secretary of health, or the secretary’s designee, handle appeals and chair the standing advisory committee for opioid-associated disease prevention and outreach programs, the Health and Government Operations Committee heard.
House Bill 94 would let the Maryland secretary of health, or the secretary’s designee, handle appeals and chair the standing advisory committee for opioid-associated disease prevention and outreach programs, the Health and Government Operations Committee heard.
The bill, a departmental technical change, moves duties currently assigned to the deputy secretary of the Public Health Administration to the secretary of health so the secretary may reassign them in the future without new legislation, Alyssa Lord, deputy secretary for behavioral health at the Maryland Department of Health, told the committee.
"This legislation will transfer responsibilities currently held by…
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