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["AI Legislative Guide"]
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["Report Generated: 11/19/2025"]
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["Question","USA, Maryland"]
["Overview"]
["Has specific legislation, final regulations or other formal regulatory guidance addressing the use of AI in your jurisdiction been implemented (vs reliance on existing legislation around IP, cyber, data privacy, etc.)?\n\n*Please note that EU rules are applicable in all EU Member States*","Yes. \nHB 820, SB 294, HB 376, and \nHB 956."]
["Please provide a short summary of the legislation/regulations/guidance and explain how legislators aim to strike the balance between innovation and regulation.\n\n*Please note that EU rules are applicable in all EU Member States*","HB 820: Signed into law on May 20, 2025, and effective October 1, 2025. Protects patients from automated AI-based denials or care modifications by carriers, PBMs, and private review agents without human review.\nSB 294 and HB 376: Signed into law on May 20, 2025, and effective October 1, 2025. \nSB 294 and \nHB 376 make significant updates to the structure, leadership process, and mission of the state's Cybersecurity Council. Expands & Restructures Membership. Eliminates the Attorney General’s chair position. They seek to modernize the Council’s structure and mission by adding AI and quantum oversight, encouraging rotating leadership, and strengthening its technical expertise starting in fall 2025.\nHB 956: Signed into law on April 22, 2025, and effective July 1, 2025. Establishes a working group tasked with monitoring AI deployment in key sectors, advising on policy and consumer protection, and delivering annual legislative reports, starting mid‑2026.\nThe \nMaryland Insurance Administration issued Bulletin 24-11, which provides that insurers, nonprofit health service plans, HMOs and dental plan organizations that have been issued a certificate of authority to conduct business in Maryland are advised that the use of AI systems must comply with existing Maryland law.  The bulletin requires insurers to adopt and implement a written AI policy.\n"]
["Which agency regulates the use of AI in your jurisdiction?\n\n*Please note that EU rules are applicable in all EU Member States*","Governor Wes Moore’s 2024 Executive created a subcabinet tasked with guiding and coordinating AI strategy across state agencies. \nThe Department of Information Technology (\nDoIT) implements AI governance via inventories, policies, and compliance oversight.\n"]