CHAPTER NUMBER: 245
File Code: Insurance - Health and Life
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Donoghue, Gordon, Crumlin, and Eckardt
- Entitled:
-
Health Insurance - Individual Market - Substantial, Available, and
Affordable Coverage
Authorizing insurers, health maintenance organizations, nonprofit
health service plans, and fraternal benefit societies to offer
substantial, available, and affordable health benefits plans to
individuals; requiring the Health Care Access and Cost Commission to
adopt regulations specifying benefits for the plans; establishing
parameters for adoption of the regulations; clarifying the authority
of the Health Services Cost Review Commission to establish specified
standards; and defining a specified term.
House Action
- 1/29
- First Reading Economic Matters
- 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 (134-2)
- 3/31
- House Concur - Senate Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (137-1)
- Passed Enrolled
- 4/29
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 245
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)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
- Delegate Michael A. Crumlin, District 25
- Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37B
- Delegate Michael R. Gordon, District 17
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- HEALTH INSURANCE -see also- HMO; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS.
- HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS
- HEALTH PLANNING AND COST REVIEW
- NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
19-1502 ,
19-1502 ,
19-1502
)
- Insurance
- (
15-606
)
- Article - 48A Insurance Code
- (
490S
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
- House
- Number: 183861/1 (PDF) Offered on: FEBRUARY 25, 1997 at: 10:16
Status: Adopted
- Senate
- Number: 427742/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 3, 1997 at: 12:33
Status: Adopted