1998 Regular Session
HEALTH OCCUPATIONS
Status of Legislation
Total number of Bills: 123
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Donoghue, Taylor, Busch, Guns, Dewberry, Hurson, Rawlings, Curran, Vallario, Hixson, Harrison, Menes, Kopp, Arnick, Owings, W. Baker, Barve, Benson, Bozman, E. Burns, Cadden, Clagett, Conroy, Conway, C. Davis, Dembrow, Doory, Dypski, Finifter, Franchot, Frank, Frush, Fulton, Genn, Goldwater, Hammen, Hecht, Heller, Howard, Jones, Krysiak, Linton, Love, Malone, Mandel, Marriott, McIntosh, Minnick, V. Mitchell, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Patterson, Perry, Petzold, Pitkin, Preis, Rosenberg, Rudolph, Shriver, Slade, Turner, Weir, Wood, Workman, DeCarlo, McHale, Miller, Valderrama, Gordon, Kach, McClenahan, Eckardt, Boston, Exum, Kirk, Pendergrass, Mohorovic, D. Davis, Ciliberti, Stup, Elliott, Stull, Klausmeier, and Snodgrass
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Complaint Process for Adverse Decisions and Grievances
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters and Environmental Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Fulton
- Entitled
- Fitness Trainers - Standards - Registration
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Harrison, Taylor, Busch, Dewberry, Hurson, Rawlings, Curran, Guns, Vallario, Hixson, Menes, Kopp, Arnick, Owings, Benson, E. Burns, Cadden, Clagett, Conroy, C. Davis, Finifter, Frank, Goldwater, Hecht, Howard, Krysiak, Love, Marriott, Minnick, Patterson, Perry, Pitkin, Preis, Proctor, Shriver, Slade, Turner, Weir, Workman, DeCarlo, Donoghue, McHale, Miller, Valderrama, Gordon, Boston, Crumlin, Eckardt, Fulton, Kach, Kelly, Kirk, La Vay, McClenahan, V. Mitchell, Pendergrass, and Walkup
- Entitled
- Provider-Sponsored Organizations - Medicare+Choice Program
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Donoghue
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Dermatological Care - Access to Care
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Morhaim
- Entitled
- State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, and Speech-Language Pathologists - Regulatory Authority
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Md. Inst. for Emer. Medical Serv. Sys.)
- Entitled
- Emergency Medical Services Providers
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Aging, Office on)
- Entitled
- Medical Records - Mandatory Disclosure - State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Gordon, Hixson, Healey, and Hurson
- Entitled
- Health Occupations - Unspent Special Funds - Waiting List Equity Fund
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Branch, Fulton, Opara, Harrison, C. Davis, Marriott, Watson, Klausmeier, Owings, Stull, Frush, Hubbard, Elliott, Weir, Nathan-Pulliam, Stup, McHale, Hammen, Redmer, Ciliberti, D. Davis, Mohorovic, Oaks, and Billings
- Entitled
- Health - Female Genital Mutilation
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Judiciary Committee (Departmental - Public Safety and Correctional Services)
- Entitled
- Division of Parole and Probation - Presentence Reports
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Morhaim and M. Burns
- Entitled
- Drunk and Drugged Driving - Evidence - Statements by Qualified Medical Persons and Toxicologist
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Owings
- Entitled
- State Board of Pharmacy - Administration of Drugs
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
HB 316
Status as of March 24, 1998: Bill is in the House - Recommit to Committee Commerce and Government Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Curran, DeCarlo, Dypski, Kagan, Malone, Mandel, Minnick, and Rudolph
- Entitled
- Fire Departments - Privatization - Referendum Required
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Commerce and Government Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Goldwater, Eckardt, Nathan-Pulliam, Exum, Harrison, and Love
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Health Care Providers - Definition and Designation of Primary Care Providers
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Goldwater, Kopp, and Love
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Patient Transfers and Reimbursements
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Frank
- Entitled
- Industrial Hygienists - Title Protection
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hixson and Bonsack
- Entitled
- Clinical Social Workers - Qualifications for Licensure
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Economic Matters Committee (Departmental - Insurance Administration, Maryland)
- Entitled
- Health Occupations - Boards - Disclosure of Information
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Goldwater and Kopp
- Entitled
- End Stage Renal Disease Program - Outpatient Facilities - Patient Referrals
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hubbard, C. Davis, Morhaim, Frush, Oaks, Schisler, Owings, Ciliberti, Mohorovic, Nathan-Pulliam, D. Davis, Stull, Elliott, Klausmeier, Watson, R. Baker, Conroy, Pitkin, and Crumlin
- Entitled
- Maryland Medical Care Database - Patient Consent
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters and Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Goldwater, Nathan-Pulliam, Eckardt, and Morhaim
- Entitled
- Nursing - Licensing Requirements - Exception
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Goldwater, Nathan-Pulliam, and Eckardt
- Entitled
- Nursing - Notification of Ownership, Name, or Address Change
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Goldwater, Nathan-Pulliam, Eckardt, and Morhaim
- Entitled
- Nursing - Expulsion from Rehabilitation Program
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Owings
- Entitled
- Licensed Physical Therapists and Licensed Physical Therapist Assistants - Scope of Practice - Topical Pharmaceutical Agents
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Owings
- Entitled
- Physical Therapy - License and Practice Requirements
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Md. Inst. for Emer. Medical Serv. Sys.)
- Entitled
- Exposure to Contagious Disease or Virus - Notification
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Donoghue, Barve, Frank, Goldwater, Krysiak, Pendergrass, and Harrison
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Dermatological Care - Access to Care
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Weir
- Entitled
- Health Care Access and Cost Commission - Evaluation of Practitioners and Providers
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates O'Donnell, Conroy, Perry, E. Burns, Morgan, Schade, M. Burns, Rzepkowski, and Ports
- Entitled
- Parental Rights Act of 1998
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates R. Baker, Palumbo, Gordon, Turner, Valderrama, Pitkin, Perry, Opara, Conroy, Vallario, and Comeau
- Entitled
- Evidence - Records and Writings of Health Care Providers
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Nathan-Pulliam, Goldwater, Eckardt, Frush, Walkup, and Marriott
- Entitled
- State Board of Nursing - Discipline
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Nathan-Pulliam, Goldwater, Eckardt, Frush, Watson, Morhaim, Owings, Klausmeier, Hammen, Bonsack, Stup, and Walkup
- Entitled
- Nurses - Safe Nursing Practices
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Owings, D. Davis, Ciliberti, Hubbard, and Nathan-Pulliam
- Entitled
- Oral Health - Dental Hygienists - Access to Care
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Goldwater, Grosfeld, Krysiak, Redmer, T. Murphy, and Perry
- Entitled
- Child Abuse - Out of Court Statements - Nurses
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Fulton
- Entitled
- Workers' Compensation - Temporary Total Disability - Fire and Rescue Employees
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates V. Mitchell, Boston, Donoghue, Eckardt, Finifter, Frank, Goldwater, Harrison, Kach, Kelly, Love, McClenahan, Pendergrass, Preis, and Wood
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Coverage for General Anesthesia for Dental Care
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Heller
- Entitled
- Public Dissemination of Physician Profiles
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Mohorovic, Beck, Benson, Billings, Branch, E. Burns, Cadden, Conroy, Cryor, DeCarlo, Doory, Dypski, Edwards, Elliott, Faulkner, Fulton, Howard, B. Hughes, D. Hughes, Jacobs, Marriott, McKee, Minnick, Montague, Morgan, Nathan-Pulliam, Pitkin, Preis, Watson, Weir, Klausmeier, C. Davis, Valderrama, Hubbard, Finifter, Holt, and Hurson
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Directory of Providers - Information to be Provided
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hixson, Gordon, Barve, Boston, Exum, Frank, Fulton, Krysiak, Love, Malone, and Moe
- Entitled
- Firefighters and Emergency Medical Personnel - Procedural Guarantees
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates C. Davis, Marriott, Harrison, Conroy, Branch, Kirk, Watson, and C. Mitchell
- Entitled
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Osteoporosis Prevention and Education Program
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Donoghue
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Health Care Providers - Retroactive Denials of Reimbursement
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Nathan-Pulliam
- Entitled
- Maryland Electrology Practice Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Goldwater and Bozman
- Entitled
- Task Force on Pharmacy Technicians
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hubbard, Proctor, Mandel, Crumlin, Nathan-Pulliam, Ciliberti, and Klausmeier
- Entitled
- Professional Counselors - Licensing
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Kagan
- Entitled
- Firefighters and Emergency Medical Personnel - Separation from Employment - Reemployment List
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Exum (Workers' Compensation Benefit and Insurance Oversight Committee)
- Entitled
- Workers' Compensation - Notice on Termination of Medical Benefits and Temporary Total Benefits
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
HB 803
Status as of March 26, 1998: Bill is in the House - Recommit to Committee Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Rosenberg
- Entitled
- Health Occupations - Boards - Project Reserve Funds
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Exum
- Entitled
- Health Insurance Carriers - Assignment, Transfer, or Subcontracting of Health Care Providers' Contracts
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Goldwater, Kopp, and Love
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Reimbursement to Hospital Emergency Facilities and Providers
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Snodgrass
- Entitled
- Medical Records - Definition
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
HB 902
Status as of March 26, 1998: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Barve
- Entitled
- Health Occupation Boards - Study of Codes of Conduct for Board Members and Investigators
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Valderrama
- Entitled
- Human Cloning - Prohibition
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Morhaim and Bonsack
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Disclosure of Physician's Address of Record
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Perry, Conway, Hubbard, and Owings
- Entitled
- Acupuncture - Qualifications for Licensure
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Perry, Conway, Hubbard, and Owings
- Entitled
- State Board of Acupuncture - Membership - Prohibition
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Goldwater, Nathan-Pulliam, and Klausmeier
- Entitled
- Nurse Psychotherapists - Authority to Prescribe Medications
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Guns, Weir, Morhaim, Elliott, McHale, Hammen, Stup, Nathan-Pulliam, Walkup, and W. Baker
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Quality of Care Standards - Appointment Times
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Kelly
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Nonconventional Medical Treatments
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Frank
- Entitled
- Disclosure of Medical Records - Health Care Provider's Insurer or Legal Counsel
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters and Economic Matters
Senate: Senate Rules
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Bonsack, Guns, W. Baker, Bozman, Conroy, DeCarlo, Faulkner, Harkins, Holt, Pitkin, Barve, Benson, Boston, Branch, E. Burns, D. Davis, Brinkley, Beck, Cadden, Conway, Cryor, C. Davis, Donoghue, Dypski, Elliott, Finifter, Eckardt, Stup, McHale, Frush, Fulton, Getty, Goldwater, Hammen, Harrison, Healey, Heller, Howard, Hubbard, D. Hughes, Hutchins, Kagan, Kelly, Klausmeier, Klima, Kirk, Kopp, Krysiak, Leopold, Linton, Malone, McClenahan, McIntosh, McKee, Miller, Edwards, Watson, Marriott, C. Mitchell, Mohorovic, Morhaim, Oaks, Muse, Perry, Preis, Rudolph, Rzepkowski, Stocksdale, Stull, Weir, Hecht, Workman, Turner, Poole, Shriver, Owings, Nathan-Pulliam, Jacobs, Comeau, Rawlings, and Walkup
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Quality of Care - Requirements
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters and Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Redmer
- Entitled
- Health Occupations - Physician Assistants - Physician Delegated Prescriptive Authority
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates McIntosh, Pitkin, Hecht, Marriott, Kopp, B. Hughes, and Heller
- Entitled
- Child Welfare Workforce Initiative of 1998
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
Senate: Finance and Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Barve, Goldwater, Donoghue, Boston, Exum, Kirk, Crumlin, Frank, and Fulton
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Compensation of Health Care Practitioners - Capitated Fees
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Pitkin
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Duration of Pregnancy Benefits
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Bonsack
- Entitled
- Practice of Medicine - Definition
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate McHale
- Entitled
- Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland - Physician Rehabilitation Program and Peer Review Activities - Audit
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Owings
- Entitled
- State Board of Pharmacy - Collaborative Drug Therapy Management
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Crumlin
- Entitled
- Fraudulent Insurance Acts - Unbundling and Upcoding
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Bonsack, M. Burns, Conway, Elliott, Guns, Harkins, Healey, Howard, Jacobs, Linton, Kelly, Klima, O'Donnell, Patterson, Palumbo, Proctor, Valderrama, and Walkup
- Entitled
- Assisted Suicide - Prohibition
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Grosfeld
- Entitled
- Health Care Providers - Statute of Limitations - Repeal
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Goldwater, Nathan-Pulliam, Eckardt, and Walkup
- Entitled
- School-Based Health Centers - Nurse Practitioners - Reimbursement
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates McHale, Marriott, and Montague
- Entitled
- Social Workers - Clinical Social Work - Definitions and Scope of Practice
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates McHale and T. Murphy
- Entitled
- Collective Bargaining and Binding Arbitration for Fire and Rescue Personnel
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Barve and Goldwater
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Reimbursement of Health Care Practitioners
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Bonsack
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Discipline of Physicians - System of Delivery of Health Care Services
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters and Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Bonsack and Bozman
- Entitled
- Out-of-State Certified Social Worker-Clinical Licensees - Exemption from Licensure
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Eckardt, Walkup, Conway, and Gordon
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Requirements for Providers to Serve on Provider Panels
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Baker
- Entitled
- Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Historic Providers - Definition
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- Health Occupation Boards - Study of Codes of Conduct for Board Members and Investigators
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
SB 145
Status as of February 25, 1998: Bill is in the Senate - Recommit to Committee Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Haines, Stone, McCabe, Dyson, Ferguson, Hafer, Stoltzfus, Colburn, Roesser, Hogan, Jimeno, and Middlebrooks
- Entitled
- Partial-Birth Abortions - Prohibition
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Della
- Entitled
- Workers' Compensation - Temporary Total Disability - Fire and Rescue Employees
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Stone, Jimeno, Haines, Dyson, McCabe, and Middlebrooks
- Entitled
- Assisted Suicide - Prohibition
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Dorman, Trotter, Derr, Roesser, and Teitelbaum
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Dermatological Care - Access to Care
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Stoltzfus and Colburn
- Entitled
- Psychologists - Educational Requirements
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
SB 274
Status as of February 4, 1998: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Hollinger, Hafer, Munson, Green, Kelley, Blount, Astle, Ruben, Dorman, Hoffman, Fry, and Forehand
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Discipline of Physicians - System of Delivery of Health Care Services
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Pinsky, Sfikas, Stoltzfus, Kelley, Colburn, and Conway
- Entitled
- Oral Health - Dental Hygienists - Access to Care
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Dorman, Middleton, Craig, and Dyson
- Entitled
- Professional Counselors - Licensing
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Physician Assistants Advisory Committee - Membership
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
SB 321
Status as of February 23, 1998: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Munson
- Entitled
- Corporate Entities - Maintenance of Medical Records - Surety Bonds
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Roesser and Teitelbaum
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Requirements for Providers to Serve on Provider Panels
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Hoffman and Hollinger
- Entitled
- Health Occupations - Boards - Project Reserve Funds
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation and Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Collins
- Entitled
- Licensed Physical Therapist, etc - Scope of Practice - Topical Pharmaceutical Agents
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Collins
- Entitled
- Physical Therapy - License and Practice Requirements
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Teitelbaum, Roesser, Van Hollen, McFadden, Sfikas, Blount, Kelley, and Conway
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Reimbursement to Hospital Emergency Facilities and Providers
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Bromwell
- Entitled
- Insurance - Carriers - Uniform Credentialing Forms
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Dorman, Bromwell, Green, Kelley, Madden, and Teitelbaum
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Complaint Process for Adverse Decisions and Grievances
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance and Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Economic Matters and Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- Business Regulation - Industrial Hygiene Services
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- State Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners - Notice of Allegation to Licensee - Exception
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- End Stage Renal Disease Program - Outpatient Facilities - Patient Referrals
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
SB 444
Status as of April 13, 1998: Bill is in the House - Favorable with Amendments Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Dorman and Ruben
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Health Care Providers - Retroactive Denials of Reimbursement
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger (Chairman, Health Subcommittee) and the Economic and Environmental Affairs Committee and Senators Craig, Pinsky, Sfikas, and Conway
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Licensure of Out-of-State Physicians - "Telemedicine"
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Dorman, Astle, Della, Stone, and Boozer
- Entitled
- Firefighters and Emergency Medical Personnel - Procedural Guarantees
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Derr, Della, and Teitelbaum
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Coverage for General Anesthesia for Dental Care
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Teitelbaum, Hollinger, Dyson, and Collins
- Entitled
- Health Occupation Boards - Sexual Misconduct
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
SB 521
Status as of April 13, 1998: Bill is in the House - Favorable with Amendments Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Teitelbaum
- Entitled
- Health Care Regulatory Reform
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Environmental Matters and Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Dorman and Hollinger
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Health Care Providers - Definition and Designation of Primary Care Providers
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Derr (Workers' Compensation Benefit and Insurance Oversight Committee)
- Entitled
- Workers' Compensation - Notice on Termination of Medical Benefits and Temporary Total Benefits
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Lawlah, Hogan, Kasemeyer, Van Hollen, and Hoffman
- Entitled
- Medical Assistance and Other State Programs - Dental Services
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Pinsky
- Entitled
- Health Insurance Carriers - Quality of Care Standards
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Van Hollen
- Entitled
- Health Care Carriers - Action Against Providers - Prohibition
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Roesser, Hollinger, Stoltzfus, and McCabe
- Entitled
- Optometrists and Physicians - Replacement Contact Lens Prescriptions
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Madden
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Reimbursements to Health Care Practitioners - Costs of Oncology Drugs
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Van Hollen, Teitelbaum, Dorman, Bromwell, Della, Madden, Roesser, and Trotter
- Entitled
- Patient Protection Act
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger (Chairman, Health Subcommittee), Economic and Environmental Affairs Committee, and Senators Craig, Pinsky, Sfikas, and Conway
- Entitled
- Disclosure of Medical Records - Health Care Provider's Insurer or Legal Counsel
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- Health Occupations - Medical Review Committees - Confidential Information
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Hollinger, Hafer, Munson, Green, Kelley, Blount, Astle, Ruben, Dorman, Hoffman, Fry, and Forehand
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance and State Board of Dental Examiners - Discipline of Members
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
SB 659
Status as of March 23, 1998: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Hollinger and Dorman
- Entitled
- Disclosure of Medical Records - Mental Health Services
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- Refusal of Medical Treatment by Minors
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Teitelbaum, Van Hollen, Forehand, Roesser, Dorman, McFadden, and Sfikas
- Entitled
- Health Insurance Carriers - Assignment, Transfer, or Subcontracting of Health Care Providers' Contracts
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Forehand, Kelley, Roesser, Colburn, and Jimeno
- Entitled
- Child Abuse - Out of Court Statements - Nurses
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hafer
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Compensation of Health Care Practitioners - Capitated Fees
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Hollinger and Dorman
- Entitled
- School-Based Health Centers - Reimbursement
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance and Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Madden
- Entitled
- Fire Departments - Privatization - Referendum Required
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
