File Code: Insurance - Health
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 579
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Middleton and Astle
- Entitled:
-
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.
Senate Action
- 2/2
- First Reading Finance
- 2/7
- Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/13
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- 3/14
- Favorable with Amendments
- Laid Over (Senator Harris) Adopted
- 3/15
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Senator Middleton) Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/19
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- 4/1
- Senate Concur - House Amendment
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- Passed Enrolled
House Action
- 3/17
- First Reading Health and Government Operations
- 3/21
- Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/3
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
- 3/28
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/29
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (139-0)
Action after passage in Senate and House
- 5/17
- Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative)
Sponsored by:
- Senator Thomas M. Middleton, District 28
- Senator John C. Astle, District 30
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
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments (Displayed in PDF Format):
Senate
- Number: 357473/01 Offered on: March 15, 2007 at:
10:46 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 503323/01 Offered on: March 15, 2007 at:
10:46 a.m. Status: Adopted
House
- Number: 776689/01 Offered on: April 3, 2007 at:
10:17 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
Senate
- March 19, 2007: Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- April 1, 2007: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
House
- March 29, 2007: Third Reading Passed (139-0)