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2007 Laws of Maryland
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Chapter Page
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Restraint and seclusion of patients in mental hygiene facilities,
patient rights provisions altered......................................................
Safe patient lifting committee and policy, establishment by hospitals
required...........................................................................................
Sickle Cell Disease, Statewide Steering Committee on Services for
Adults with, established..................................................................
Social workers, scope of practice of licensed certified social worker-
clinical, clarified..............................................................................
State Stipends for National Certification of Teachers, Study
Commission to Explore the Expanded Application of, established
to study expansion to certain other nonteaching school system
personnel; report required...............................................................
Treatment of mental or emotional disorder of a minor who is 16 or
older, authority of psychologists to give information about the
treatment to a parent, guardian, or custodian of the minor,
without the minor's consent, provisions added...............................
Unauthorized practice of medicine, crime and penalty provisions
altered..............................................................................................
Workers' compensation claim application forms, inclusion of
authorization for release of certain medical information,
requirements added..........................................................................
Workforce Shortage Student Assistance grants in the fields of
developmental disabilities, mental health, child welfare, and
juvenile justice providers, designated as the Ida G. and L.
Leonard Ruben Scholarships...........................................................
Health Planning and Cost Review —
Freestanding medical facility pilot project operating in Queen
Anne's County that is established by and administratively part of
a hospital in Talbot County, provisions added................................
Health Care Access and Reimbursement, Task Force on, established;
report required.................................................................................
Health Care Commission, evaluation deadline reestablished;
provisions concerning quorum, fees, various studies and reports,
data compilation, mandated health insurance services, Limited
Health Benefit Plan, certificates of need, and Trauma Physician
Services Fund, added and altered....................................................
Health information exchange pilot project for health care providers,
established; reports required............................................................
Health Services Cost Review Commission -
Appropriation to..............................................................................
Evaluation date reestablished; provisions concerning user fees,
annual report, Maryland Health Insurance Plan, hospital
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172
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1350
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173
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1356
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56
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887
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57
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889
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435
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2591
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235
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1634
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387
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2378
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140
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1209
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359
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2283
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167
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1325
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303
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1935
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574
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3747
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505
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3334
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627
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3962
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262
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1744
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487
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2912
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3044
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