CHAPTER NUMBER: 389
File Code: Insurance - Health
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Bromwell and Van Hollen
- Entitled:
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Health Insurance - Substantial, Available, and Affordable Coverage
Requiring carriers that offer medically underwritten health benefit
plans in the nongroup market in the State to provide an individual who
has been denied coverage under a medically underwritten health benefit
plan with specific information regarding the availability of
substantial, available, and affordable coverage in the form and manner
required by the Insurance Commissioner through regulation; requiring
the Insurance Commissioner to adopt facilitating regulations; etc.
Senate Action
- 2/2
- First Reading Finance
- 2/6
- Hearing 2/15 at 2:00 p.m.
- 2/26
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- 2/28
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/5
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- 4/5
- Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
- Senate Requests House Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Senators Bromwell, Astle, and DeGrange
- 4/7
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (45-1)
- 4/6
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/15
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 389
House Action
- 3/6
- First Reading Economic Matters
- 3/21
- Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/5
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
- 3/31
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/2
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (138-0)
- 4/3
- House Refuses to Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Delegates Busch, Donoghue, and Eckardt
- 4/6
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (134-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Thomas L. Bromwell, District 8
- Senator Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., District 18
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- APPROPRIATIONS
- BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF
- CONSUMER PROTECTION -see also- UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES
- CONTRACTS -see also- LAND INSTALLMENT CONTRACTS; PROCUREMENT
- DISCLOSURE
- HEALTH INSURANCE -see also- HMOS; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS
- HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS -see also- MAN CARE ORGS
- INSURANCE ADMINISTRATION
- NOTICES
- REPORTS
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- SUNSET
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Insurance
- (
15-606.1
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 347678/1 (PDF) Offered on: February 28, 2001 at:
11:18 a.m. Status: Adopted
- House
- Number: 763794/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 5, 2001 at:
11:45 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Conference Committee Documents::
- Report Number: 953921/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 9, 2001 at:
11:07 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Amendment Number: 083327/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 9, 2001 at:
11:07 p.m. Status: Incomplete
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- Senate
- March 5, 2001: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- April 7, 2001: Third Reading Passed (45-1)
- House
- April 2, 2001: Third Reading Passed (138-0)
- April 6, 2001: Third Reading Passed (134-0)