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SENATE BILL 883
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By: Senator Watson
Introduced and read first time: February 7, 2022
Assigned to: Finance
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 SEEKS TO PROMOTE PUB LIC HEALTH THAT IS SPONSORED BY : 18
(1) THE FEDERAL GOVERNMEN T, THE STATE, OR A LOCAL 19
GOVERNMENT ; 20
(2) A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATI ON THAT IS EXEMPT FROM TAXATION 21
UNDER § 501(C)(3) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE; OR 22
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(3) A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION THAT HA S THE STATED 1
PURPOSE OF PROMOTING PUBLIC HEA LTH. 2
(B) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL AUTH ORIZE A PERSON WHO I S QUALIFIED TO 3
OFFER OR PERFORM LAB ORATORY TESTING IN THE STATE, AS DETERMINED BY THE 4
DEPARTMENT , TO OFFER AND PERFORM LABORATORY TESTING F OR DETECTING 5
SICKLE CELL DISEASE AT A COMMUNITY –BASED HEALTH FAIR IN THE STATE. 6
(C) A PERSON WHO IS AUTHOR IZED TO PERFORM TEST ING UNDER 7
SUBSECTION (B) OF THIS SECTION MAY PROVID E INFORMATION ON AND RESOURCES 8
FOR LIVING WITH SICK LE CELL DISEASE WHIL E PERFORMING TESTING AT A 9
COMMUNITY –BASED HEALTH FAIR . 10
(D) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ADOP T REGULATIONS TO CAR RY OUT THIS 11
SECTION. 12
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 13
October 1, 2022. 14