Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB334: Workgroup on Newborn Nurse Home Visiting Services - Establishment
Status: Chaptered, May 20, 2025
Establishing the Workgroup on Universal Newborn Nurse Home Visiting Services; requiring the Workgroup to compile updated participant data and expenditure per participant from the home visiting programs currently operating in the State, compare the data for home visiting programs to the data for evidence-based models, identify service gaps, and identify workforce needs; and requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 31, 2025.
What the bill says
An act concerning Universal Workgroup on Newborn Nurse Home Visiting Services - Program Establishment and Insurance Coverage FOR the purpose of requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish a program to provide universal newborn nurse home visiting services to all families with newborns residing in the State; requiring community leads and the Department to collect and report on certain data related to the program…
From the enrolled text, June 4, 2025:
AN ACT concerning Universal Workgroup on Newborn Nurse Home Visiting Services - Program Establishment and Insurance Coverage FOR the purpose of requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish a program to provide universal newborn nurse home visiting services to all families with newborns residing in the State; requiring community leads and the Department to collect and report on certain data related to the program; requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations that provide certain health benefits under certain insurance policies or contracts to provide certain coverage and reimbursement for universal newborn nurse home visiting services; and generally relating to universal newborn nurse home visiting services establishing the Workgroup on Newborn Home Visiting Services; and generally relating to the Workgroup on Newborn Home Visiting Services. BY adding to Article - Health - General Section 13-5501 and 13-5502 to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle 55. Universal Newborn Nurse Home Visiting Program" Annotated Code of Maryland (2023 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) BY adding to Article - Insurance Section 15-861 Annotated Code of Maryland (2017 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: (a) There is a Workgroup on Newborn Home Visiting Services in the State. (b) The Workgroup consists of the …