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Votes at a glance: Health and Government Operations Committee approves multiple bills on April 3 voting list
Summary
The committee unanimously approved a slate of bills on its April 3 voting list, including measures on public works data, local food purchasing, advanced practice nursing licensure, procurement preferences for ESOP entities, and several health-insurance and health-facility crossfiles; some items required concurrence with Senate amendments.
The Health and Government Operations Committee on Thursday moved and approved a series of bills on its April 3 voting list. Most measures were adopted by voice vote with no recorded opposition in the transcript.
Key actions taken during the session (committee actions as recorded in the transcript):
- Senate Bill 3 (cross-file House Bill 850): Work group to create a public-works contracts and apprentices data dashboard — favorable; concurrence noted as identical to HB 850 and passed by voice vote.
- Senate Bill 177 (cross-file House Bill 56): Procurement — State Department of Education local food purchasing program — favorable; identical to HB 56 and passed by voice vote.
- Senate Bill 407 (cross-file House Bill 602): State Board of Nursing — advanced practice nursing licensure — favorable; identical cross-file and passed by voice vote.
- Senate Bill 653 / House Bill 819 (ESOP procurement preference pilot): The committee approved technical amendments to conform language after Senate changes created an evaluation factor instead of a percentage preference; concurrence with Senate amendments was approved and the committee indicated final concurrence would be recorded at the end of the voting session.
- Senate Bill 676 (health care facilities): Favorable in committee; the cross-file was noted as not unanimous on the floor previously but passed in committee by voice vote.
- Senate Bill 691 (healthcare ecosystem) — identical to House Bill 33 — favorable and passed by voice vote.
- Senate Bill 921 (step therapy/fail-first protocols) — favorable and passed by voice vote.
- Senate Bill 975 (health insurance coverage for specialty drugs) — favorable and passed by voice vote.
Concurrences and other recorded items
- The committee recorded concurrence on House Bill 1146 (Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System integration with 988 suicide and crisis lifeline) to change the start date for collection, analysis and reporting of outcome-evaluation data to begin in December 2026; concurrence approved by voice vote.
- The committee also recorded concurrence on the ESOP procurement language (HB 819/HB 819 cross-file) to accept the Senate’s evaluation-factor approach instead of a percentage preference; members moved to concur and approved by voice vote.
Procedural notes
Nearly all items on the voting list were moved and seconded and approved on voice votes; the transcript records no roll-call tallies for these items. On a few measures the committee noted that the cross-file was identical to its House counterpart; in other cases the committee approved technical amendments to conform language to Senate changes.
Ending: After completing the voting list, the committee adjourned the voting session.
