ANNAPOLIS – New regulations will take effect in the state’s hospitals today, as procedures designed to reduce error through increased communication roll into place
Committee Questions Abortion Bill
ANNAPOLIS – Senate committee members interrogated a lawmaker in a hearing Wednesday, pushing the senator to admit that her bill calling for regulation of abortion clinics exceeds the realm of licensing and regulation
Pro-Life Caucus Shifts to Offensive on Agenda
ANNAPOLIS – Anti-abortion legislators shifted attitude Tuesday, going on the offensive to try to push through legislation supported by their Bi-Partisan Pro-Life Caucus
Domestic Partners Bill Opponents Charge Will Lead to Gay Marriage
ANNAPOLIS – A Thursday hearing on the Medical Decision-Making Act of 2004 tumbled into a confused discussion about what the bill – which seeks to provide same-sex partners with medical decision-making rights – would or wouldn’t do
Health Codes Slated to Catch up With Bed, Breakfast Inns
ANNAPOLIS – When Brampton Bed and Breakfast of Kent County needed a new dishwasher, it had to drop $4,000 for a commercial model
Committee Torches Smoking Ban
ANNAPOLIS – A Senate panel Friday killed a proposal to make Maryland restaurants and bars smoke free
Malpractice Insurance Bills Try to Curb Rising Premiums
ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s Senate president weighed into the medical malpractice insurance debate with a bill to reduce the disparity in doctors’ premium costs that will be heard in the General Assembly next week
Panel Strikes, Switches Children’s Insurance Bill
ANNAPOLIS – A House panel stripped a bill to require health insurers to carry policyholders’ children up to age 30, substituting information requirements and sending it to the floor
Domestic Partners’ Bill Overlooks Heterosexual Couples’ Issues
ANNAPOLIS – A bill intended to have a positive effect on same-sex domestic couples may have an unintended discriminatory effect against unmarried heterosexual partners