2008 Regular Session
Insurance - Health (C3)
Current Status of Legislation Total number of Bills: 46
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Manno, Riley, Pena-Melnyk, Montgomery, Kipke, Morhaim, Reznik, V. Turner, Kullen, and Pendergrass
- Entitled
- Long-Term Care Insurance - Prohibited Acts - Genetic Tests, Genetic Information, or Genetic Services
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
HB 69
Status as of February 26, 2008: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Mizeur
- Entitled
- Prosthetic Parity Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Tarrant, Barve, Braveboy, Cane, Conaway, Glenn, Hammen, Harrison, Ivey, Kipke, Kullen, Montgomery, Oaks, Pendergrass, Reznik, Riley, Robinson, Stukes, V. Turner, Valderrama, Walker, and Weldon
- Entitled
- Medical Assistance Programs and Maryland Children's Health Program - Statements on State-Issued Check Stubs
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
HB 236
Status as of March 11, 2008: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee (By Request - Departmental - Insurance Administration, Maryland)
- Entitled
- Life or Health Insurance Policies and Contracts - Discretionary Clauses - Prohibition
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee (By Request - Departmental - Insurance Administration, Maryland)
- Entitled
- Maryland Health Insurance Plan - Status, Operation, and Regulation
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee (By Request - Departmental - Insurance Administration, Maryland)
- Entitled
- Medical Stop-Loss Insurance
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Pendergrass
- Entitled
- Task Force on Health Care Access and Reimbursement - Extension
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee (By Request - Departmental - Insurance Administration, Maryland)
- Entitled
- Health Insurance Carriers - Financial Reporting
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Pendergrass
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Small Group Market - Self-Employed Individuals - Sunset Extension
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
HB 493
Status as of March 18, 2008: 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
HB 499
Status as of March 11, 2008: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Nathan-Pulliam, Benson, Kach, Montgomery, Stukes, Tarrant, and V. Turner
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Primary Care Physicians - Reimbursement for Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Pena-Melnyk, Mizeur, Benson, Bromwell, Costa, Donoghue, Dumais, Elliott, Feldman, Gutierrez, Guzzone, Heller, Kaiser, Kipke, Montgomery, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, Reznik, Rice, Tarrant, F. Turner, V. Turner, Waldstreicher, Weldon, Beitzel, Hammen, Hubbard, Kach, Kullen, McDonough, Morhaim, Pendergrass, and Riley
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Coverage for Amino Acid-Based Elemental Formula
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Donoghue, Benson, Bromwell, Costa, Elliott, Hammen, Hubbard, Kach, Kipke, Kullen, McDonough, Mizeur, Montgomery, Morhaim, Oaks, Pena-Melnyk, Pendergrass, Reznik, Riley, Tarrant, V. Turner, and Weldon
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Carrier Credentialing - Reimbursement of Providers of Health Care Services
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Pena-Melnyk, Ali, Barnes, Benson, Branch, Cane, Costa, Donoghue, Dumais, Gutierrez, Hammen, Healey, Hubbard, Hucker, Ivey, Kipke, Kullen, Levi, Mizeur, Montgomery, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Niemann, Oaks, Reznik, Robinson, Rosenberg, Ross, Tarrant, V. Turner, Valderrama, and Walker
- Entitled
- Health Care Coverage - Institutions of Higher Education
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations and Appropriations
HB 701
Status as of March 4, 2008: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Kaiser, Bates, Bromwell, Carr, Frick, Hucker, Ivey, Love, Minnick, Mizeur, Montgomery, Reznik, Robinson, and Taylor
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Coverage for In Vitro Fertilization - Miscarriage
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
HB 709
Status as of February 6, 2008: Bill is in the House - First Reading Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Costa and Kipke
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Special Services, Procedures, or Reports - Reimbursement
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
HB 737
Status as of February 6, 2008: Bill is in the House - First Reading Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Elliott, Bartlett, Bates, Benson, G. Clagett, Donoghue, Hammen, Hecht, Hubbard, Kipke, Krebs, Kullen, McKee, Mizeur, Montgomery, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, Pena-Melnyk, Reznik, Riley, Schuh, Stull, Tarrant, V. Turner, and Weldon
- Entitled
- Health Care Coverage - Personal Responsibility
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Tarrant, Donoghue, James, Nathan-Pulliam, Riley, and Stukes
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Reimbursement of Health Care Practitioners - Information Provided by Carriers
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Pendergrass, Bobo, DeBoy, Guzzone, Malone, F. Turner, Benson, Bromwell, Costa, Donoghue, Elliott, Hammen, Hubbard, Kach, Kipke, Kullen, McDonough, Mizeur, Montgomery, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, Pena-Melnyk, Reznik, Riley, Tarrant, V. Turner, and Weldon
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Public-Private Health Care Programs
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
HB 1081
Status as of March 4, 2008: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Love, Costa, Kipke, Morhaim, and Weldon
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Reimbursement of Providers of Health Care Services - Claims
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Morhaim
- Entitled
- Health Care Coverage Fund - Tax on Health Insurance Premiums - Access to Health Care
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means and Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Tarrant, Barkley, Barnes, Branch, Donoghue, Hubbard, McHale, Nathan-Pulliam, Ramirez, Ross, Stukes, Taylor, V. Turner, Vaughn, Benson, Montgomery, Morhaim, Oaks, and Pena-Melnyk
- Entitled
- Insurance Producers - Life and Health Insurance Examinations - Annual Report
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
HB 1161
Status as of March 11, 2008: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Bromwell, Elliott, Hubbard, Kach, Kipke, Kullen, Montgomery, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Pena-Melnyk, Tarrant, and Weldon
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Carrier Provider Panels - Standards for Availability of Health Care Providers
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
HB 1175
Status as of March 22, 2008: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Kach
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Provider Contracts - Conditions of Participation with Carriers
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Kach, Elliott, Kipke, Kullen, Nathan-Pulliam, and Riley
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Health Care Provider Panels - Provider Contracts
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
HB 1379
Status as of March 22, 2008: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Ivey, Barkley, Beidle, Benson, Branch, V. Clagett, Doory, Gilchrist, Harrison, Lee, Montgomery, Pena-Melnyk, Ramirez, Rice, Valderrama, and Walker
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Waiver for Older Adults Expansion Fund
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Mizeur, Hammen, Benson, Donoghue, Elliott, Gutierrez, Hixson, Howard, Ivey, Kipke, Lafferty, McIntosh, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Pena-Melnyk, Pendergrass, Reznik, Schuh, Bromwell, Costa, Hubbard, Kullen, Montgomery, Oaks, V. Turner, Weldon, Hucker, Bartlett, Barve, Cardin, Doory, Elmore, Frick, George, Gilchrist, Jennings, Kaiser, Krebs, Murphy, Olszewski, Rice, Ross, Serafini, Stukes, F. Turner, and Walker
- Entitled
- Kids First Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations and Ways and Means
Senate: Finance
HB 1434
Status as of March 14, 2008: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Montgomery, Barkley, Carr, and Lee
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Conversion from Group to Individual Policy - Preexisting Conditions While Under Group Coverage
- Committee
Assignments -
House: House Rules and Executive Nominations
HB 1468
Status as of March 31, 2008: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Morhaim
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Outpatient Mental Health Treatment - Elimination of Tiered Copayments
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- The Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Delegates Hammen, Beitzel, Benson, Bromwell, Busch, Costa, Donoghue, Eckardt, Elliott, Hubbard, Kach, Kaiser, Kipke, Kullen, Manno, McDonough, McIntosh, Mizeur, Montgomery, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Niemann, Oaks, Pena-Melnyk, Pendergrass, Reznik, Riley, Rudolph, Tarrant, V. Turner, and Weldon
- Entitled
- Senior Prescription Drug Assistance Program - Subsidy for Medicare Part D Coverage Gap and Sunset Extension
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
HB 1505
Status as of March 5, 2008: Bill is in the House - Re-referred Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Oaks, Costa, Donoghue, Elliott, Hubbard, Morhaim, Pena-Melnyk, Riley, Tarrant, and Weldon
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Reimbursement for Preauthorized or Approved Health Care Services
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee (By Request - Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene)
- Entitled
- Maryland Health Care Provider Rate Stabilization Fund - Allocations to and Disbursements from the Medical Assistance Program Account
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
HB 1540
Status as of March 12, 2008: Bill is in the House - Re-referred Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Benson, Hucker, Bobo, Glenn, Heller, Holmes, Ivey, Levi, Love, Manno, Montgomery, Niemann, Ramirez, Taylor, F. Turner, V. Turner, Valderrama, and Vaughn
- Entitled
- Health Care Reform Act of 2008
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Brochin
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Small Group Market - Coverage of Child Dependents
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Pugh, Conway, Della, Exum, Jones, Kelley, Lenett, Madaleno, McFadden, and Raskin
- Entitled
- Prosthetic Parity Act
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Finance Committee (By Request - Departmental - Insurance Administration, Maryland)
- Entitled
- Maryland Health Insurance Plan - Application of Insurance Fraud Law
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Judicial Proceedings Committee (By Request - Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene)
- Entitled
- Maryland False Health Claims Act
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Della
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Special Services, Procedures, or Reports - Reimbursement
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Astle, Della, and Klausmeier
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Carrier Credentialing - Reimbursement of Providers of Health Care Services
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Pipkin
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Provider Contracts - Conditions of Participation with Carriers
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Jones, Astle, and McFadden
- Entitled
- Insurance Producers - Life and Health Insurance Examinations - Annual Report
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Klausmeier
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Carrier Provider Panels - Standards for Availability of Health Care Providers
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Pipkin
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Health Care Provider Panels - Provider Contracts
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kasemeyer, Kittleman, and Robey
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Public-Private Health Care Programs
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- The President (By Request - Administration) and Senators Astle, Frosh, Garagiola, Klausmeier, Madaleno, Middleton, Muse, Pinsky, Pugh, Raskin, Exum, Glassman, and Kelley
- Entitled
- Senior Prescription Drug Assistance Program - Subsidy for Medicare Part D Coverage Gap and Sunset Extension
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Forehand
- Entitled
- Long-Term Care Insurance - Prohibited Acts - Genetic Tests, Genetic Information, or Genetic Services
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
