File Code: Insurance - Health
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 427
- Sponsored By:
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Delegates Tarrant, Bromwell, Harrison, Hucker, Jones, Kirk, Lawton,
Mathias, Rice, Riley, Walker, Hammen, Benson, Costa, Donoghue, Elliott,
Hubbard, Kach, Kipke, Kullen, McDonough, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks,
Pendergrass, V. Turner, and Weldon
- Entitled:
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Health Insurance - Authorization of Additional Products and Small Group
Administrative Discounts and Study
Providing that the Maryland Insurance Commissioner may authorize
health insurance carriers to offer a preferred provider insurance
policy that conditions the payment of benefits on the use of preferred
providers if the health insurance carrier meets specified
requirements; requiring specified insurers and nonprofit health
service plans to offer an option to include preferred and nonpreferred
providers as an additional benefit under specified circumstances; etc.
House Action
- 2/8
- First Reading Health and Government Operations
- 2/14
- Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/20
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
- 3/18
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/19
- Third Reading Passed (139-0)
- 4/1
- House Concur - Senate Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (136-0)
- Passed Enrolled
Senate Action
- 3/22
- First Reading Finance
- 3/26
- Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/2
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- 3/30
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/31
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0)
Action after passage in House and Senate
- 4/24
- Approved by the Governor
- - Chapter 243
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Shawn Z. Tarrant, District 40
- Delegate Joanne C. Benson, District 24
- Delegate Eric M. Bromwell, District 8
- Delegate Robert A. Costa, District 33B
- Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
- Delegate Donald B. Elliott, District 4B
- Delegate Peter A. Hammen, District 46
- Delegate Hattie N. Harrison, District 45
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23A
- Delegate Tom Hucker, District 20
- Delegate Adrienne A. Jones, District 10
- Delegate Wade Kach, District 5
- Delegate Nicholaus R. Kipke, District 31
- Delegate Ruth M. Kirk, District 44
- Delegate Sue Kullen, District 27B
- Delegate Jane E. Lawton, District 18
- Delegate James N. Mathias, Jr., District 38B
- Delegate Pat McDonough, District 7
- Delegate Dan K. Morhaim, District 11
- Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
- Delegate Nathaniel T. Oaks, District 41
- Delegate Shane E. Pendergrass, District 13
- Delegate Craig L. Rice, District 15
- Delegate B. Daniel Riley, District 34A
- Delegate Veronica Turner, District 26
- Delegate Jay Walker, District 26
- Delegate Richard B. Weldon, Jr., District 3B
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Disclosure
- Health Care Commission
- Health Insurance -see also- HMOS; Managed Care Organizations
- Health Maintenance Organizations -see also- Manage Care Orgs
- Health Occupations -see also- specific health occupations
- Insurance Administration
- Physicians -see also- Dentists; Med Exmnrs; Psych; etc
- Prices -see also- Consumer Price Index
- Reports
- Small Business
- Work, Labor and Employment -see also- Col Barg; Holiday; etc
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Insurance
- (
14-201 ,
14-202 ,
14-203 ,
14-204 ,
14-205.1 ,
15-112 ,
15-1104 ,
15-1205
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments (Displayed in PDF Format):
House
- Number: 116586/01 Offered on: March 21, 2007 at:
10:44 a.m. Status: Adopted
Senate
- Number: 347874/01 Offered on: April 3, 2007 at:
11:37 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
House
- March 19, 2007: Third Reading Passed (139-0)
- April 1, 2007: Third Reading Passed (136-0)
Senate
- March 31, 2007: Third Reading Passed (47-0)