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| 3 | 3 | | EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MAT TER ADDED TO EXISTIN G LAW. |
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| 4 | 4 | | [Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law. |
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| 5 | 5 | | *hb1170* |
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| 7 | 7 | | HOUSE BILL 1170 |
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| 8 | 8 | | J1 2lr2495 |
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| 9 | 9 | | CF SB 883 |
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| 10 | 10 | | By: Delegates McComas and Henson |
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| 11 | 11 | | Introduced and read first time: February 11, 2022 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Assigned to: Health and Government Operations |
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| 13 | 13 | | |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL ENTITLED |
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| 16 | 16 | | AN ACT concerning 1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | Public Health – Sickle Cell Disease – Testing at a Community–Based Health Fair 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | FOR the purpose of requiring the Maryland Department of Health to authorize certain 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | persons to offer and perform testing for detecting sickle cell disease at a 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | community–based health fair; authorizing the person to provide information on and 5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | resources for living with sickle cell disease while performing testing at a 6 |
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| 24 | 24 | | community–based health fair; and generally relating to testing for sickle cell disease. 7 |
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| 26 | 26 | | BY adding to 8 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Article – Health – General 9 |
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| 28 | 28 | | Section 18–508 10 |
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| 29 | 29 | | Annotated Code of Maryland 11 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (2019 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 12 |
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| 32 | 32 | | SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 13 |
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| 33 | 33 | | That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 14 |
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| 34 | 34 | | |
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| 35 | 35 | | Article – Health – General 15 |
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| 37 | 37 | | 18–508. 16 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (A) IN THIS SECTION, “COMMUNITY –BASED HEALTH FAIR” MEANS AN EVENT 17 |
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| 40 | 40 | | THAT OFFERS HEALTH C ARE SERVICES TO AN I NDIVIDUAL FOR FREE OR USING A 18 |
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| 41 | 41 | | SLIDING FEE SCALE TH AT IS SPONSORED BY : 19 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (1) THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT , THE STATE, OR A LOCAL 20 |
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| 44 | 44 | | GOVERNMENT ; 21 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (2) A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATI ON THAT IS EXEMPT FR OM TAXATION 22 |
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| 47 | 47 | | UNDER § 501(C)(3) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE; OR 23 2 HOUSE BILL 1170 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (3) A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION THAT HA S THE STATED 1 |
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| 52 | 52 | | PURPOSE OF PROVIDING HEALTH SERVIC ES TO LOW–INCOME INDIVIDUALS . 2 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (B) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL AUTHORIZE A PERSON WHO IS QUALIFIED TO 3 |
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| 55 | 55 | | OFFER OR PERFORM LAB ORATORY TESTING IN THE STATE, AS DETERMINED BY THE 4 |
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| 56 | 56 | | DEPARTMENT , TO OFFER AND PERFORM LABORATORY TESTING FOR DETECTING 5 |
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| 57 | 57 | | SICKLE CELL DISEASE AT A COMMUNITY –BASED HEALTH FAIR IN THE STATE. 6 |
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| 59 | 59 | | (C) A PERSON WHO IS AUTHORIZED TO PERFORM TESTING UNDER 7 |
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| 60 | 60 | | SUBSECTION (B) OF THIS SECTION MAY PROVIDE INFORMATION ON AND RESOURCES 8 |
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| 61 | 61 | | FOR LIVING WITH SICK LE CELL DISEASE WHILE PERFORMING TESTING AT A 9 |
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| 62 | 62 | | COMMUNITY –BASED HEALTH FAIR . 10 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (D) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ADOP T REGULATIONS TO CARRY OUT THIS 11 |
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| 65 | 65 | | SECTION. 12 |
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| 67 | 67 | | SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 13 |
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| 68 | 68 | | October 1, 2022. 14 |
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