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SENATE BILL 684
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CF HB 1100
By: Senator Augustine
Introduced and read first time: January 26, 2025
Assigned to: Finance
Committee Report: Favorable with amendments
Senate action: Adopted
Read second time: February 11, 2025
CHAPTER ______
AN ACT concerning 1
Public Health – Health Equity Dashboard 2
FOR the purpose of requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in collaboration with 3
the Commission on Health Equity, to develop a health equity data dashboard; 4
requiring the Department to update the data dashboard at a certain frequency; and 5
generally relating to a health equity data dashboard. 6
BY adding to 7
Article – Health – General 8
Section 13–5501 to be under the new subtitle “Subtitle 55. Health Equity Dashboard” 9
Annotated Code of Maryland 10
(2023 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 11
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 12
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 13
Article – Health – General 14
SUBTITLE 55. HEALTH EQUITY DASHBOARD. 15
13–5501. 16
(A) (1) THE DEPARTMENT , IN COLLABORATION WIT H THE COMMISSION 17
ON HEALTH EQUITY, SHALL DEVELOP A CLEA R AND EASY –TO–UNDERSTAND 18 2 SENATE BILL 684
GRAPHIC DATA DASHBOA RD THAT INCLUDES AGE–ADJUSTED HEALTH DISP ARITY 1
DATA DISAGGREGATED B Y RACE, ETHNICITY, AND GENDER . 2
(2) THE DATA DASHBOARD SH ALL INCLUDE INFORMAT ION 3
REGARDING THE FOLLOW ING HEALTH INDICATOR S: 4
(I) HEALTH INSURANCE ACCE SS; 5
(II) CARDIOVASCULAR DISEAS E; 6
(III) CHRONIC DISEASE; 7
(IV) MENTAL HEALTH AND SUB STANCE ABUSE ; 8
(V) CANCER; 9
(VI) HIV/AIDS; 10
(VII) SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTION; AND 11
(VIII) ANY OTHER HEALTH INDI CATORS DETERMINED RE LEVANT 12
BY THE DEPARTMENT . 13
(B) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL : 14
(1) UPDATE THE DATA DASHB OARD DEVELOPED UNDER SUBSECTION 15
(A) OF THIS SECTION AT LEAST EVERY 30 DAYS ON A QUARTERLY BASIS , AS 16
DETERMINED BY DATA A VAILABILITY; AND 17
(2) POST THE MOST RECENT UPDATED DATA DASHBOA RD 18
PROMINENTLY ON ITS W EBSITE. 19
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 20
October 1, 2025. 21