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