CHAPTER NUMBER: 420 
File Code: Insurance - Health and Life
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegate Donoghue
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Health Insurance - Small Employer Groups - Health Benefit Plans
 
Making the Maryland Health Insurance Reform Act applicable to health
benefit plans issued through a professional employer organization,
coemployer, or other organization that engages in employee leasing;
permitting health benefit plans issued through employee leasing
organizations to have a common anniversary date; and requiring the
Health Care Access and Cost Commission, in conjunction with the
Maryland Insurance Administration, to conduct a specified study and to
report the results of the study by November 1, 1997.
House Action
- 1/15
 - First Reading Economic Matters
 - 1/29
 - Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 2/24
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
 - 2/25
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 2/28
 - Third Reading Passed (125-8)
 - 3/31
 - House Concur - Senate Amendments
 -      Third Reading Passed (133-3)
 -      Passed Enrolled
 - 5/8
 - Signed by the Governor Chapter 420
 
Senate Action
- 3/3
 - First Reading Finance
 - 3/5
 - Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/3
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
 -      Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 4/4
 - Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0)
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - HEALTH INSURANCE -see also- HMO; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS.
 - SMALL BUSINESS
 - SUNSET
 - WORK, LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT -see also- LEAVE; OVERTIME
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 -   Insurance
 - (
 15-1201 ,
 15-1212 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF) 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- House 
 - Number: 733866/1 (PDF) Offered on: FEBRUARY 25, 1997  at: 10:16
 Status: Adopted         
 - Senate
 - Number: 007544/2 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 3, 1997      at: 12:29
 Status: Adopted