2007 Regular Session
Insurance Administration
Status of Legislation
Total number of Bills: 46
- Sponsored By
- The Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Delegates Barnes, Busch, Haynes, and Morhaim
- Entitled
- Task Force on Health Care Access and Reimbursement
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Morhaim
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Prohibited Discrimination and Rebates - Incentives for Participation in Wellness Programs and Other Exceptions
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Hammen (Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee)
- Entitled
- State Board of Physicians - Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Simmons, Olszewski, Vallario, Rosenberg, Anderson, Barnes, Carter, Conaway, Dumais, Dwyer, Frank, Kelly, Kramer, Lee, Levi, McComas, Ramirez, Schuler, Smigiel, Valderrama, and Waldstreicher
- Entitled
- Civil Actions - Liability of Insurer - Failure to Act in Good Faith
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
HB 477
Status as of March 20, 2007: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Costa
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Small Group Market - Limited Health Benefit Plan - Modifications
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Morhaim
- Entitled
- Nonprofit Health Service Plans - Boards of Directors - Term Limits and Compensation
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Bromwell
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Credentialing Intermediaries and Uniform Credentialing Form
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Love
- Entitled
- Motor Vehicle Insurance - Accident Prevention Courses - Discount for Seniors
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- 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
- Health Insurance - Authorization of Additional Products and Small Group Administrative Discounts and Study
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
HB 734
Status as of February 21, 2007: Bill is in the House - First Reading Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rudolph and Elliott
- Entitled
- Pharmacy Benefits Managers Regulation Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hammen, Ali, Anderson, Barkley, Barnes, Barve, Beidle, Benson, Bobo, Branch, Braveboy, Bronrott, Cane, Cardin, Carter, G. Clagett, V. Clagett, Conway, Davis, Donoghue, Doory, Dumais, Elmore, Feldman, Frush, Gaines, Gilchrist, Glenn, Goldwater, Griffith, Gutierrez, Guzzone, Harrison, Haynes, Healey, Hecht, Heller, Hixson, Holmes, Howard, Hubbard, Hucker, Ivey, Jones, Kaiser, N. King, Kirk, Kramer, Krysiak, Kullen, Lafferty, Lawton, Levi, Love, Manno, McHale, McIntosh, Mizeur, Montgomery, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Niemann, Oaks, Pena-Melnyk, Pendergrass, Proctor, Ramirez, Rice, Robinson, Rosenberg, Ross, Simmons, Stein, Stukes, Tarrant, Taylor, F. Turner, Vallario, Vaughn, Waldstreicher, Walker, Weir, Lee, Valderrama, and V. Turner
- Entitled
- Children and Working Families Health Care Act of 2007
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations and Ways and Means
Senate: Finance and Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Holmes, Anderson, Barnes, Benson, Cardin, Feldman, Gutierrez, Hucker, Lawton, Manno, Mizeur, Pena-Melnyk, Ramirez, Riley, Schuler, Stein, Taylor, and Wood
- Entitled
- Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund - Acceptance of Premiums on Installment Basis
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Nathan-Pulliam, Benson, Cane, Conaway, Gaines, Glenn, Gutierrez, Kipke, Lee, Montgomery, Oaks, Pena-Melnyk, and Tarrant
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Collection of Racial and Ethnic Data - Nondiscrimination
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Bromwell
- Entitled
- Discount Medical Plan Organizations and Discount Drug Plan Organizations - Registration and Regulation
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
HB 935
Status as of March 22, 2007: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Hubbard
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Disabled Individuals - Eligibility for the Maryland Health Insurance Plan
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Mizeur, Hammen, Benson, Bromwell, Costa, Elliott, Hubbard, Kach, Kipke, Kullen, Montgomery, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, Pena-Melnyk, Pendergrass, Riley, Tarrant, V. Turner, and Weldon
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Family Coverage Expansion Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Mizeur, Beidle, Benson, Bobo, Bromwell, Donoghue, Dumais, Gutierrez, Hixson, Hubbard, Ivey, Kaiser, N. King, Kullen, Nathan-Pulliam, Pena-Melnyk, and Tarrant
- Entitled
- Family Health Care Affordability Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
HB 1068
Status as of April 9, 2007: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Eckardt, Dwyer, Frank, George, Haddaway, McComas, Schuh, Shank, and Smigiel
- Entitled
- Consumer Health Open Insurance Coverage Act of 2007
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
HB 1070
Status as of March 23, 2007: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Eckardt, Dwyer, Haddaway, McComas, Schuh, and Smigiel
- Entitled
- Health Services Cost Review Commission - Repeal of Commission and Study of Alternative Financing of Uncompensated and Undercompensated Care
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Impallaria
- Entitled
- Motor Vehicle Insurers - Repair Products and Services - Rates
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Feldman
- Entitled
- Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund - Authority of Commissioner to Impose Penalties and Restitution
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Hubbard
- Entitled
- Qualified State Long-Term Care Insurance Partnership - Revisions
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
HB 1179
Status as of February 20, 2007: Bill is in the House - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Pendergrass
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Uniform Credentialing Form
- Committee
Assignments -
House: House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee (By Request - Departmental - Insurance Administration, Maryland)
- Entitled
- Maryland Health Insurance Plan - Authority
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Economic Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Insurance Administration, Maryland)
- Entitled
- Insurance - Analyses and Examination Reports - Use and Sharing of Documents, Materials, and Information
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
HJ 2
Status as of February 9, 2007: Bill is in the House - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Cardin
- Entitled
- Holocaust Survivors' Insurance Claims
- Committee
Assignments -
House: House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- The President (By Request - Administration) and Senators DeGrange, Garagiola, Hogan, Kasemeyer, Klausmeier, Middleton, Miller, Peters, Rosapepe, Astle, Kelley, and Pugh
- Entitled
- Task Force on Health Care Access and Reimbursement
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
SB 149
Status as of March 27, 2007: Bill is in the House - First Reading Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- The President (By Request - Administration) and Senators Exum, Garagiola, Gladden, Kelley, Klausmeier, Middleton, Pipkin, Pugh, and Zirkin
- Entitled
- Maryland Health Care Access Act of 2007
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Conway
- Entitled
- State Board of Physicians - Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Conway, Exum, Garagiola, Kelley, Middleton, and Pugh
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Collection of Racial and Ethnic Data - Nondiscrimination
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Middleton
- Entitled
- Qualified State Long-Term Care Insurance Partnership - Revisions
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Stone
- Entitled
- Civil Actions - Liability of Insurer - Failure to Act in Good Faith
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Middleton and Astle
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Authorization of Additional Products and Small Group Administrative Discounts and Study
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Britt, Lenett, Raskin, and Rosapepe
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Eligibility for the Maryland Health Insurance Plan - Disabled Individuals
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Middleton
- Entitled
- Motor Vehicle Insurance - Accident Prevention Courses - Discount for Seniors
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Garagiola
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Credentialing Intermediaries and Uniform Credentialing Form
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Klausmeier
- Entitled
- Discount Medical Plan Organizations and Discount Drug Plan Organizations - Registration and Regulation
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Pipkin, Jacobs, and Munson
- Entitled
- Consumer Health Open Insurance Coverage Act of 2007
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance and Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Senator Pipkin
- Entitled
- Health Services Cost Review Commission - Repeal of Commission and Study of Alternative Financing of Uncompensated and Undercompensated Care
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Klausmeier, Della, and Edwards
- Entitled
- Pharmacy Benefits Managers Regulation Act
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Astle
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Prohibited Discrimination and Rebates - Incentives for Participation in Wellness Programs and Other Exceptions
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Astle
- Entitled
- Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund - Authority of Commissioner to Impose Penalties and Restitution
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Middleton
- Entitled
- Health Care Expansion Program
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Harris and Zirkin
- Entitled
- No-Fault Cerebral Palsy Insurance Fund
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
SB 893
Status as of March 27, 2007: Bill is in the House - First Reading Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Astle
- Entitled
- Maryland Health Insurance Plan - Plan Independence, Board Composition, and Regulation
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Klausmeier, Astle, Edwards, Garagiola, Kittleman, Middleton, and Pugh
- Entitled
- Nonprofit Health Service Plans - Boards of Directors - Term Limits and Compensation
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
