Certificate of Need - Psychiatric Health Care Facilities and Psychiatric and Mental Health Services - Exemption
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Summary
The bill changes Maryland’s health‑care statutes by deleting psychiatry and its subcategories from the list of “medical services.” It also adds a rule that a certificate of need is not needed to open or run a psychiatric health‑care facility or to provide psychiatric or other mental‑health services in any health‑care setting. The change would let providers expand psychiatric care without the usual CON review.
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- Health — Bill HearingHealth · Feb 18, 2026
History
- Hearing canceled
- Hearing 2/18 at 1:30 p.m.
- Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- First Reading Health
Sponsors
- Grammer · sponsor
- A. Johnson
- Alston
- Anderson
- Arentz
- Arikan
- Baker
- Beauchamp
- Boafo
- Chisholm
- Ciliberti
- Fisher
- Ghrist
- Griffith
- Guyton
- Guzzone
- Hornberger
- Hutchinson
- Jacobs
- Kaufman
- Kerr
- Lewis
- M. Morgan
- McComas
- Metzgar
And 19 more cosponsors.
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