File Code: Insurance - Health
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 811  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegates Kach, Elliott, Kipke, Kullen, Nathan-Pulliam, and Riley
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Health Insurance - Health Care Provider Panels - Provider Contracts
 
Repealing a prohibition that health insurance carriers that offer
coverage for health care services in a specified manner may not
require providers to serve on specified provider panels under
specified circumstances; repealing an exception to the prohibition;
repealing specified requirements for providers that elect to terminate
participation on provider panels; prohibiting provider contracts from
containing a provision that requires providers to participate in
provider panels under specified circumstances; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occuring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
House Action
- 2/8
 - First Reading Health and Government Operations
 - 2/13
 - Hearing 3/6 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/20
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
 - 3/18
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Pendergrass) Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/19
 - Third Reading Passed (137-0)
 - 3/28
 - House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
 -      House Requests Senate Recede
 -      Conference Committee Appointed ...
 -      Delegates Pendergrass, Kullen, and Kach
 - 4/2
 - Conference Committee Report Adopted
 -      Third Reading Passed (141-0)
 - 4/3
 - Passed Enrolled
 
Senate Action
- 3/21
 - First Reading Finance
 - 3/25
 - Hearing 4/1 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/26
 - Hearing cancelled
 -      Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/31
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
 - 3/27
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/28
 - Third Reading Passed with Amendments (44-1)
 - 4/2
 - Senate Refuses to Recede
 -      Conference Committee Appointed ...
 -      Senators Garagiola, Kelley, and Kittleman
 - 4/3
 - Conference Committee Report Adopted
 -      Third Reading Passed (44-0)
 
Action after passage in House  and Senate
- 5/22
 - Approved by the Governor
 -      - Chapter 688
 
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Wade Kach, District 5B
 - Delegate Donald B. Elliott, District 4B
 - Delegate Nicholaus R. Kipke, District 31
 - Delegate Sue Kullen, District 27B
 - Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
 - Delegate B. Daniel Riley, District 34A
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Contracts -see also- Land Installment Contracts; Procurement
 - Disclosure
 - Fees -see also- Devt Fees and Taxes; Reimbursement Rates
 - Health Insurance -see also- HMOS; Managed Care Organizations
 - Health Maintenance Organizations -see also- Manage Care Orgs
 - Health Occupations -see also- specific health occupations
 - Managed Care Organizations -see also- Health Maint Orgs
 - Notices
 - Physicians -see also- Dentists; Med Exmnrs; Psych; etc
 - Reimbursement Rates
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Health - General
 - (
 19-706 
)
 -   Insurance
 - (
 15-112 ,
 15-112 ,
 15-112 ,
 15-112.2 
)
 
- 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: 423323/01     Offered on: March 21, 2008      at:
11:02 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 - Number: 866088/01     Offered on: March 21, 2008      at:
11:01 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 
Senate
- Number: 117770/01     Offered on: April 1, 2008       at:
10:53 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 
- Conference Committee Documents (Displayed in PDF Format):
 
- Report Number: 333821/1      Offered on: April 7, 2008       at:
2:47 p.m.      Status: Adopted
 - Amendment Number: 153621/2      Offered on: April 7, 2008       at:
2:47 p.m.      Status: Adopted
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
 House 
- March 19, 2008: Third Reading Passed  (137-0)
 - April 2, 2008: Third Reading Passed  (141-0)
 
Senate
- March 28, 2008: Third Reading Passed  (44-1)
 - April 3, 2008: Third Reading Passed  (44-0)