File Code: Insurance - Health
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate Kullen
- Entitled:
-
Health Insurance - Limitations on Preexisting Condition Provisions - Individual
Health Benefit Plans
Prohibiting specified application forms from containing inquiries
about specified conditions, illnesses, diseases, or medical
procedures; prohibiting an insurer or nonprofit health service plan
from attaching an exclusionary rider without the prior written consent
of the policyholder; and applying the Act to policies, contracts, and
health benefit plans issued, delivered, or renewed in the State on or
after October 1, 2009.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
House Action
- 10/16
- Pre-filed
- 1/14
- First Reading Health and Government Operations
- 1/28
- Hearing 2/5 at 1:00 p.m.
- 1/29
- Hearing cancelled
- Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/24
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
- 2/25
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 2/27
- Third Reading Passed (135-0)
- 4/5
- House Concur - Senate Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (133-0)
- Passed Enrolled
Senate Action
- 3/2
- First Reading Finance
- 3/13
- Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/3
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/4
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-1)
Action after passage in House and Senate
- 5/19
- Approved by the Governor
- - Chapter 653
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Consumer Protection -see also- Unfair Trade Practices
- Disclosure
- Diseases -see also- AIDS; Rabies
- Forms
- Health Insurance -see also- HMOS; Managed Care Organizations
- Health Maintenance Organizations -see also- Manage Care Orgs
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Insurance
- (
12-205 ,
15-508.1
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Attorney General Letter (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments (Displayed in PDF Format):
House
- Number: 363122/01 Offered on: February 25, 2009 at:
10:20 a.m. Status: Adopted
Senate
- Number: 817273/01 Offered on: April 7, 2009 at:
10:20 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
House
- February 27, 2009: Third Reading Passed (135-0)
- April 5, 2009: Third Reading Passed (133-0)
Senate
- April 4, 2009: Third Reading Passed (46-1)