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Ex. DUT-MD-009 Standing duty Primary source read

Statute

Immunity of health care providers acting in good faith and under a catastrophic health emergency proclamation

Maryland General Assembly (Public Safety Article, Title 14, Subtitle 3A) · Maryland (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Maryland
Level
State
Authority
Md. Const. art. III
Effective
in force throughout 2020 Q2 to 2021 Q3 (operative while the proclamation of March 5, 2020 stood, to August 15, 2021) (read as 2020-03-05)
End
standing (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
Standing since Mar. 5, 2020 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Health care ordersOperating condition
Addressees
  • health care facilities, health care practitioners and emergency medical services providers (Pub. Safety § 14-3A-01(e))
Character
liability shield condition
Collection
Standing duties: Maryland DUT-MD

Operative words

A health care provider is immune from civil or criminal liability if the health care provider acts in good faith and under a catastrophic health emergency proclamation.

Penalty

Not a penalty provision; loss of immunity for conduct outside the proclamation's regime or in bad faith

What it required

Conditioned the only liability immunity Maryland law extended during the pandemic on the provider acting 'under' the Governor's proclamation, that is, within the regime of orders and directives issued under it; Maryland enacted no shield for businesses generally.

Retrieval note

The general-business shield bills of the 2021 Regular Session, HB 508 ('COVID-19 Claim - Civil Immunity'; House hearing Feb. 3, 2021; Senate crossfile hearing Jan. 26, 2021) and HB 1106 ('Civil Actions - Immunity From Liability - COVID-19 Exposure'; hearing Mar. 3, 2021), received hearings and no further action and were not enacted (official 2021RS legislation master list, mgaleg.maryland.gov, read 2026-09-28; grade verified_secondary; no exhibit saved). The 2020 Regular Session, which adjourned March 18, 2020, enacted none. Maryland businesses therefore answered in negligence to the ordinary standard of care throughout the six quarters, with the governmental health directives as the measure of that care. Companion conditioned immunity: Health-Gen. § 18-907(d) (Ex. DUT-MD-004).

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