Maryland House Bill 825: Brain Health - Guidelines, Grant Fund, and Commemorative Month (Tahjai's Law)

Maryland · 2026 Regular Session

What it does

Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim the month of May to be Brain Health and Chronic Headache Awareness Month; requiring the proclamation to align with a certain national brain tumor awareness initiative; establishing the Maryland Brain Health Grant Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in collaboration with certain entities, to develop guidelines on brain health screening; and requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill for fiscal 2028 an appropriation of $500,000 for the Fund.

Latest action

Hearing 3/17 at 1:00 p.m. (Government, Labor, and Elections) (2026-02-16)

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