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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 | | *hb0373* |
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| 7 | 7 | | HOUSE BILL 373 |
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| 8 | 8 | | J1 5lr0694 |
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| 9 | 9 | | HB 276/24 – HGO |
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| 10 | 10 | | By: Delegates Grammer, Arikan, Chisholm, Fisher, M. Morgan, Nawrocki, and |
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| 11 | 11 | | Szeliga |
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| 12 | 12 | | Introduced and read first time: January 16, 2025 |
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| 13 | 13 | | Assigned to: Health and Government Operations |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL ENTITLED |
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| 17 | 17 | | AN ACT concerning 1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Health – Abortion Data – Submission to the Centers for Disease Control and 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Prevention 3 |
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| 22 | 22 | | FOR the purpose of requiring the Maryland Department of Health to submit to the Centers 4 |
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| 23 | 23 | | for Disease Control and Prevention any data regarding abortion requested by the 5 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, unless submitting the data would 6 |
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| 25 | 25 | | violate federal or State law; and generally relating to the submission of abortion data 7 |
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| 26 | 26 | | to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 8 |
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| 28 | 28 | | BY adding to 9 |
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| 29 | 29 | | Article – Health – General 10 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Section 20–217 to be under the new part “Part V. Reporting Requirements” 11 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Annotated Code of Maryland 12 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (2023 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 13 |
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| 34 | 34 | | SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 14 |
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| 35 | 35 | | That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 15 |
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| 36 | 36 | | |
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| 37 | 37 | | Article – Health – General 16 |
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| 39 | 39 | | 20–215. RESERVED. 17 |
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| 41 | 41 | | 20–216. RESERVED. 18 |
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| 43 | 43 | | PART V. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS . 19 |
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| 45 | 45 | | 20–217. 20 |
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| 46 | 46 | | 2 HOUSE BILL 373 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (A) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTI ON (B) OF THIS SECTION , THE 1 |
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| 50 | 50 | | DEPARTMENT SHALL SUBM IT TO THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND 2 |
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| 51 | 51 | | PREVENTION ANY DATA R EGARDING ABORTION RE QUESTED BY THE CENTERS FOR 3 |
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| 52 | 52 | | DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION. 4 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (B) THE DEPARTMENT MAY REFUSE TO SUBMIT DAT A REQUESTED UNDER 5 |
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| 55 | 55 | | SUBSECTION (A) OF THIS SECTION IF S UBMITTING THE DATA W OULD BE IN 6 |
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| 56 | 56 | | VIOLATION OF FEDERAL OR STATE LAW. 7 |
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| 58 | 58 | | SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 8 |
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| 59 | 59 | | October 1, 2025. 9 |
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