1996 Regular Session

HOUSE BILL 1271

CHAPTER NUMBER: 397 File Code: Insurance - Health and Life
Sponsored By:
Delegates Donoghue, Doory, Goldwater, Krysiak, Workman, McKee, Poole, Hecht, Snodgrass, Stup, Brinkley, Stull, Getty, Stocksdale, DeCarlo, Minnick, Mohorovic, Klausmeier, E. Burns, Edwards, Nathan-Pulliam, Finifter, Frank, Bobo, Pendergrass, Turner, Faulkner, Cryor, Shriver, Kopp, Kagan, Grosfeld, Hurson, Heller, Petzold, Hixson, Frush, Menes, Rosapepe, Healey, Palumbo, Conroy, Hubbard, Pitkin, Benson, Exum, Slade, Howard, Muse, Valderrama, Proctor, Vallario, Hutchins, Cadden, Love, Rzepkowski, Perry, Bonsack, Jacobs, Preis, Fry, Rudolph, W. Baker, Walkup, Eckardt, Bozman, Conway, Ciliberti, Marriott, Boston, Oaks, Rosenberg, Curran, Montague, Kirk, C. Mitchell, Branch, Harrison, Dypski, Hammen, Opara, Kach, Elliott, Flanagan, Crumlin, Busch, Gordon, V. Mitchell, Kelly, Barve, and Cummings
Entitled:
Health Insurance - Mothers and Newborns - Minimum Length of Stay and Utilization Review

Synopsis:

Requiring health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide inpatient hospitalization coverage for a mother and newborn child for a specified minimum length of time; providing a specified exception; prohibiting a health insurer, nonprofit health service plan, private review agent, and health maintenance organization from impairing the participation of physicians in providing health care services under specified circumstances; etc.

Legislative History

House Action
2/15
First Reading Economic Matters
Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
3/13
Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
3/14
Favorable with Amendments
Special Order 3/15 (Del. Busch) Adopted
3/15
Special Order later (Del. Busch) Adopted
Favorable with Amendments
Committee Amendment (#1-5) Adopted
Committee Amendment (#6) Withdrawn
Substitute Committee Amendment (#6) Adopted
Favorable with Amendments Adopted
Floor Amendment (Del. Redmer) Rejected
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
3/18
Third Reading Passed (140-0)
3/31
House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
House Requests Senate Recede
Conference Committee Appointed ...
Busch, Goldwater, Kelly
4/6
Conference Committee Report Adopted
Third Reading Passed (133-0)
Passed Enrolled
5/14
Signed by the Governor Chapter 397
Senate Action
3/19
First Reading Finance
3/20
Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
4/2
Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
3/31
Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
4/2
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0)
4/4
Senate Refuses to Recede
Conference Committee Appointed ...
Young, Bromwell, Roesser
4/6
Conference Committee Report Adopted
Third Reading Passed (46-0)
Sponsored by:
Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
Delegate Wheeler R. Baker, District 36
Delegate Kumar P. Barve, District 17
Delegate Joanne C. Benson, District 24
Delegate Elizabeth Bobo, District 12B
Delegate Rose Mary Hatem Bonsack, District 34
Delegate Frank D. Boston, Jr., District 41
Delegate K. Bennett Bozman, District 38
Delegate Talmadge Branch, District 45
Delegate David R. Brinkley, District 4A
Delegate Emmett C. Burns, Jr., District 10
Delegate Michael Erin Busch, District 30
Delegate Joan Cadden, District 31
Delegate Barrie S. Ciliberti, District 39
Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23
Delegate Norman H. Conway, District 38
Delegate Michael A. Crumlin, District 25
Delegate Jean Cryor, District 15
Delegate Elijah E. Cummings, District 44
Delegate Gerald J. Curran, District 43
Delegate Diane DeCarlo, District 6
Delegate Ann Marie Doory, District 43
Delegate Cornell N. Dypski, District 46
Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37B
Delegate George C. Edwards, District 1A
Delegate Donald B. Elliott, District 4B
Delegate Nathaniel Exum, District 24
Delegate Patricia Anne Faulkner, District 14A
Delegate Michael J. Finifter, District 11
Delegate Robert L. Flanagan, District 14B
Delegate Robert L. Frank, District 11
Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
Delegate Donald C. Fry, District 35A
Delegate Joseph M. Getty, District 5
Delegate Marilyn Goldwater, District 16
Delegate Michael R. Gordon, District 17
Delegate Sharon Grosfeld, District 18
Delegate Peter A. Hammen, District 46
Delegate Hattie N. Harrison, District 45
Delegate Anne Healey, District 22A
Delegate Sue Hecht, District 3
Delegate Henry B. Heller, District 19
Delegate Sheila Ellis Hixson, District 20
Delegate Carolyn J. B. Howard, District 24
Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23
Delegate John Adams Hurson, District 18
Delegate Thomas E. Hutchins, District 28
Delegate Nancy Jacobs, District 34
Delegate A. Wade Kach, District 9A
Delegate Cheryl C. Kagan, District 17
Delegate James M. Kelly, District 9B
Delegate Ruth M. Kirk, District 44
Delegate Katherine Klausmeier, District 8
Delegate Nancy K. Kopp, District 16
Delegate Carolyn J. Krysiak, District 46
Delegate Mary Ann Love, District 32
Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, District 40
Delegate Robert A. McKee, District 2A
Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
Delegate Joseph J. Minnick, District 7
Delegate Clarence Mitchell, IV, District 44
Delegate Van T. Mitchell, District 28
Delegate Jacob J. Mohorovic, Jr., District 7
Delegate Kenneth C. Montague, Jr., District 43
Delegate C. Anthony Muse, District 26
Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
Delegate Nathaniel T. Oaks, District 41
Delegate Anthony J. O'Donnell, District 29C
Delegate Richard A. Palumbo, District 22A
Delegate Shane Pendergrass, District 13A
Delegate Marsha G. Perry, District 33
Delegate Carol Stoker Petzold, District 19
Delegate Joan B. Pitkin, District 23
Delegate D. Bruce Poole, District 2B
Delegate Mary Louise Preis, District 34
Delegate James E. Proctor, Jr., District 27A
Delegate James C. Rosapepe, District 21
Delegate Samuel I. Rosenberg, District 42
Delegate David D. Rudolph, District 35B
Delegate James E. Rzepkowski, District 32
Delegate Mark K. Shriver, District 15
Delegate John F. Slade, III, District 29B
Delegate Louise V. Snodgrass, District 3
Delegate Nancy Reter Stocksdale, District 5
Delegate Paul S. Stull, District 4A
Delegate J. Anita Stup, District 3
Delegate Frank S. Turner, District 13A
Delegate David M. Valderrama, District 26
Delegate Joseph F. Vallario, Jr., District 27A
Delegate Mary Roe Walkup, District 36
Delegate Betty Workman, District 1B
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
APPEALS -see also- JUDICIAL REVIEW
HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS
HEALTH OCCUPATIONS
HEALTH PLANNING AND COST REVIEW
HOSPITALS -see also- CLINICS
INSURANCE-HEALTH -see also- HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS
PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL PERSONNEL
PREGNANCY
WOMEN
Bill affects the following Statutes:
Health - General
( 19-703 , 19-706 , 19-1305.4 )
Article - 48A Insurance Code
( 354F , 470H , 477-I , 490FF )

Documents:

Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF), Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)

Amendments:
House
Number: 192181/2 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 15, 1996 at: 12:26 Status: Rejected
Number: 473357/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 15, 1996 at: 12:26 Status: Adopted
Number: 593552/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 15, 1996 at: 12:24 Status: Incomplete
Senate
Number: 297835/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 2, 1996 at: 12:48 Status: Adopted