File Code: Public Health
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 486/99 - FIN
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 950
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Exum, Bromwell, DeGrange, Della, Dorman, Hooper, and
Teitelbaum
- Entitled:
-
Medical Assistance - Program Recipients - Continuity of Care
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish
specified mechanisms for identifying the primary care provider of a
recipient of medical assistance and maintaining continuity of care
with that provider; requiring a managed care organization, under
specified circumstances, to assign a recipient of medical assistance
to a particular primary care provider and to honor a request to change
primary care providers; allowing a recipient to disenroll from a
managed care organization under specified circumstances; etc.
Senate Action
- 2/2
- First Reading Finance
- Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/6
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- 3/7
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/9
- Third Reading Passed (44-0)
- 4/3
- Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
- Senate Requests House Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Senators Exum, Dorman, and DeGrange
- 4/7
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (45-0)
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/19
- Governor vetoed - Cross-filed bill was signed
House Action
- 3/10
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 3/23
- Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/31
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
- 3/29
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/30
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-0)
- 4/1
- House Refuses to Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Delegates D. Davis, Sher, and Boutin
- 4/7
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (123-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Nathaniel Exum, District 24
- Senator Thomas L. Bromwell, District 8
- Senator James E. DeGrange, Sr., District 32
- Senator George W. Della, Jr., District 47
- Senator Arthur Dorman, District 21
- Senator J. Robert Hooper, District 35
- Senator Leonard H. Teitelbaum, District 19
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS -see also specific health occupations-
- MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS -see also- HEALTH MAINT ORGS
- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
- NOTICES
- PATIENTS
- PHYSICIANS -see also- DENTISTS; MED EXMNRS; PSYCH; etc
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
15-102.5 ,
15-103 ,
15-103
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 457679/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 7, 2000 at:
10:54 a.m. Status: Adopted
- House
- Number: 690712/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 31, 2000 at:
11:39 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Conference Committee Documents::
- Report Number: 183425/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 10, 2000 at:
4:34 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- Senate
- March 9, 2000: Third Reading Passed (44-0)
- April 7, 2000: Third Reading Passed (45-0)
- House
- March 30, 2000: Third Reading Passed (137-0)
- April 7, 2000: Third Reading Passed (123-0)