File Code: Insurance - Health and Life
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 182
- Sponsored By:
-
The President (Administration) and Senators Bromwell, Dorman,
Hollinger, Astle, Blount, Collins, Conway, Della, Dyson, Exum, Green,
Lawlah, Middleton, Ruben, and Teitelbaum
- Entitled:
-
Patients' Bill of Rights Act of 1999
Requiring specified health insurance carriers to provide for a
standing referral to a specialist under specified circumstances;
requiring specified carriers to cover specified prescription drugs and
devices under specified circumstances; requiring the Maryland
Insurance Administration to serve as the "single point of entry" for
consumers seeking specified health insurance information; setting a
minimum length of specified inpatient hospitalization coverage after
specified procedures; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/22
- First Reading Finance
- 1/27
- Hearing 2/3 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/8
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- 3/9
- Favorable with Amendments
- Laid Over (Senator Munson) Adopted
- 3/10
- Favorable with Amendments
- Special Order after Third Reading calendar (Senator Bromwell) Adopted
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Senator Hollinger) Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/12
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- 4/9
- Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
- Senate Requests House Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Senators Bromwell, Dorman, and Madden
House Action
- 3/15
- First Reading Economic Matters
- 3/17
- Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/9
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
- 4/5
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/6
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (134-2)
- 4/11
- House Refuses to Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Delegates Busch, Donoghue, and Kelly
- Sponsored by:
- President of the Senate
- Administration
- Senator John C. Astle, District 30
- Senator Clarence W. Blount, District 41
- Senator Thomas L. Bromwell, District 8
- Senator Michael J. Collins, District 6
- Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
- Senator George W. Della, Jr., District 47
- Senator Arthur Dorman, District 21
- Senator Roy P. Dyson, District 29
- Senator Nathaniel Exum, District 24
- Senator Leo E. Green, District 23
- Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger, District 11
- Senator Gloria Lawlah, District 26
- Senator Thomas McLain Middleton, District 28
- Senator Ida G. Ruben, District 20
- Senator Leonard H. Teitelbaum, District 19
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CONSUMER PROTECTION -see also- ADVTG.; LABELING; WARRANTIES.
- DISEASES -see also- AIDS; RABIES
- DRUGS -see also- CONTROLLED DANG SUB; DRUNK & DRUGGED DRIVG.
- EQUIPMENT -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE EQUIPMENT
- HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
- HEALTH INSURANCE -see also- HMO; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS.
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS -see also- MAN. CARE ORGS
- HOSPITALS -see also- CLINICS; STATE HOSPITALS
- INSURANCE ADMINISTRATION
- NOTICES
- PATIENTS
- PHYSICIANS
- PUBLIC INFORMATION
- REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- SUNSET
- WOMEN
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
19-706
)
- Insurance
- (
2-112.2 ,
2-112.3 ,
2-301 ,
2-302 ,
2-303 ,
2-303.1 ,
2-304 ,
2-305 ,
15-829 ,
15-830 ,
15-831 ,
15-832 ,
15-10A-09
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 017068/4 (PDF) Offered on: March 10, 1999 at:
11:53 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 453019/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 10, 1999 at:
11:55 a.m. Status: Adopted
- House
- Number: 773987/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 9, 1999 at:
11:28 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- Senate
- March 12, 1999: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- House
- April 6, 1999: Third Reading Passed (134-2)