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*hb0798*
HOUSE BILL 798
J1 5lr1606
CF SB 589
By: Delegates Lehman, Addison, Allen, Boyce, Foley, Guyton, Hill, Jacobs, Kaiser,
R. Lewis, J. Long, Martinez, T. Morgan, Nawrocki, Ruth, Taveras, Terrasa,
White Holland, Woods, Woorman, and Ziegler Ziegler, Pena–Melnyk,
Cullison, Alston, Bagnall, Bhandari, Chisholm, Guzzone, Hutchinson,
S. Johnson, Kerr, Kipke, Lopez, M. Morgan, Reilly, Rosenberg, Ross, and
Szeliga
Introduced and read first time: January 29, 2025
Assigned to: Health and Government Operations
Committee Report: Favorable with amendments
House action: Adopted
Read second time: March 2, 2025
CHAPTER ______
AN ACT concerning 1
Opioid Restitution Fund – Interactive Dashboard 2
FOR the purpose of requiring the Maryland Office of Overdose Response, in collaboration 3
with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and maintain an interactive 4
dashboard on Opioid Restitution Fund spending to share prescription opioid–related 5
settlement information with the public; requiring the dashboard to include links to 6
the State, county, or municipal websites that provide access to additional 7
information on the use of opioid–related settlement funds; requiring counties and 8
municipalities receiving settlement funding to provide certain information to the 9
Department to include on the dashboard in a certain manner; requiring that the 10
dashboard be developed and maintained using funds from the Opioid Restitution 11
Fund appropriated through the State budget; and generally relating to an interactive 12
dashboard on Opioid Restitution Fund spending. 13
BY adding to 14
Article – Health – General 15
Section 7.5–1001 to be under the new subtitle “Subtitle 10. Opioid Restitution 16
Settlement Funding Interactive Dashboard” 17
Annotated Code of Maryland 18
(2023 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 19 2 HOUSE BILL 798
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 1
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 2
Article – Health – General 3
SUBTITLE 10. OPIOID RESTITUTION SETTLEMENT FUNDING INTERACTIVE 4
DASHBOARD. 5
7.5–1001. 6
(A) THE MARYLAND OFFICE OF OVERDOSE RESPONSE, IN 7
COLLABORATION WITH T HE DEPARTMENT , SHALL DEVELOP AND MA INTAIN AN 8
INTERACTIVE DASHBOAR D ON OPIOID RESTITUTION FUND SPENDING FOR THE 9
PURPOSE OF SHARING P RESCRIPTION OPIOID –RELATED SETTLEMENT 10
INFORMATION WITH THE PUBLIC. 11
(B) THE DASHBOARD DEVELOP ED AND MAINTAINED UN DER SUBSECTION 12
(A) OF THIS SECTION SHAL L INCLUDE, DISAGGREGATED BY STATE, COUNTY, AND 13
MUNICIPALITY: 14
(1) PAYMENT SCHEDULE INFO RMATION ON ESTIMATED PAYMENTS 15
TO THE STATE, COUNTY, OR MUNICIPALITY FROM OPIOID SETTLEMENTS ; 16
(2) PAST SPENDING OF SETT LEMENT FUNDS ; 17
(3) SPENDING PLANS AND PR IORITIES; AND 18
(4) A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF ANY INITIATIVE FU NDED WITH 19
SETTLEMENT FUNDS , INCLUDING PERFORMANC E MEASURES IF APPLIC ABLE. 20
(C) THE IF THERE IS A STATE, COUNTY, OR MUNICIPAL WEBSITE THAT 21
PROVIDES ACCESS TO A DDITIONAL INFORMATIO N ON THE USE OF OPIO ID–RELATED 22
SETTLEMENT FUNDS BY THE STATE, COUNTY, OR MUNICIPALITY, THE DASHBOARD 23
SHALL INCLUDE INFORMATION ON PUBLI C HEARINGS CONDUCTED IN THE STATE, 24
COUNTY, OR MUNICIPALITY REGA RDING THE USE OF SETTLEMENT FUNDS FRO M THE 25
OPIOID RESTITUTION FUND A LINK TO THE STATE, COUNTY, OR MUNICIPAL 26
WEBSITE. 27
(D) (1) THIS SUBSECTION DOES NO T APPLY TO A COUNTY OR 28
MUNICIPALITY THAT : 29
(I) COMPLIES WITH REPORTI NG REQUIREMENTS 30
ESTABLISHED IN AN OP IOID–RELATED SETTLEMENT ; AND 31
HOUSE BILL 798 3
(II) SHARES THE DATA IN TH E REPORTS REQUIRED U NDER AN 1
OPIOID–RELATED SETTLEMENT W ITH THE APPROPRIATE STATE ENTITY. 2
(2) A COUNTY OR MUNICIPALI TY RECEIVING SETTLEM ENT FUNDS 3
SHALL PROVIDE TO THE DEPARTMENT THE NECESS ARY FINANCIAL INFORM ATION 4
RELATED TO SETTLEMEN T FUNDING TO INCLUDE AS INFORMATION ON TH E 5
DASHBOARD . 6
(2) (3) INFORMATION REQUIRED TO BE PROVIDED UNDER 7
PARAGRAPH (1) (2) OF THIS SUBSECTION S HALL BE IN COMPLIANC E WITH THE 8
TERMS OF ANY OPIOID –RELATED SETTLEMENT A GREEMENT. 9
(3) (4) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL UPLO AD OPIOID–RELATED 10
SETTLEMENT INFORMATI ON SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT BY A COUNT Y OR 11
MUNICIPALITY IN COMP LIANCE WITH THE TERM S OF AN OPIOID –RELATED 12
SETTLEMENT . 13
(5) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ESTA BLISH AN ONLINE PORT AL WITH 14
INSTRUCTIONS FOR A C OUNTY OR MUNICIPALIT Y TO REPORT OR UPLOA D REQUIRED 15
INFORMATION TO THE DEPARTMENT FOR USE IN THE DASHBOARD . 16
(E) TO THE EXTENT PRACTIC ABLE, THE DASHBOARD SHALL USE EXISTING 17
PLATFORMS THAT PROVI DE DATA ON OPIOID US E AND OVERDOSES IN T HE STATE. 18
(F) THE DASHBOARD SHALL B E DEVELOPED AND MAIN TAINED USING 19
FUNDS FROM THE OPIOID RESTITUTION FUND AS APPROPRIATED THROUGH THE 20
STATE BUDGET . 21
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 22
October 1, 2025. 23
Approved:
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Governor.
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Speaker of the House of Delegates.
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President of the Senate.