File Code: Public Health
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegates Hurson, Goldwater, Shriver, Marriott, Conroy, Love, Bonsack,
Barve, and Healey
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Children's Health Insurance Assistance Program
 
Establishing a Children's Health Insurance Assistance Program to
provide insurance coverage for uninsured needy and low-income
children; establishing a Children's Health Insurance Assistance
Program Advisory Council; specifying the membership, terms, and duties
of the Advisory Council; altering the tobacco tax rate; altering a
specified discount provision under the tobacco tax; requiring the
State Comptroller to distribute a portion of the tobacco tax revenues
to a special fund to be used only for specified purposes; etc.
House Action
- 1/31
 - First Reading Economic Matters
 - 2/12
 - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/18
 - Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
 
Senate Action
- No Action
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Delegate John Adams Hurson, District 18
 - Delegate Kumar P. Barve, District 17
 - Delegate Rose Mary Hatem Bonsack, District 34
 - Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23
 - Delegate Marilyn R. Goldwater, District 16
 - Delegate Anne Healey, District 22A
 - Delegate Mary Ann E. Love, District 32
 - Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, District 40
 - Delegate Mark K. Shriver, District 15
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
 - COMPTROLLER
 - HEALTH INSURANCE -see also- HMO; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS.
 - HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
 - HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS
 - INSURANCE ADMINISTRATION
 - MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; JUVENILE CAUSES; YOUTH
 - REVENUE AND TAXES -see also specific taxes -
 - TOBACCO
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 -   Health - General
 - (
 15-501 ,
 15-502 ,
 15-503 ,
 15-504 ,
 15-505 ,
 15-506 ,
 15-507 ,
 15-508 ,
 15-509 ,
 15-510 ,
 15-511 ,
 15-512 ,
 15-513 ,
 15-514 ,
 15-515 ,
 19-706 
)
 -   Tax - General
 - (
 2-1603 ,
 12-105 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF)