File Code: Insurance - Health
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Chair, Finance Committee (By Request - Departmental - Insurance
Administration, Maryland)
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Health Insurance - Reform
 
Prohibiting health insurance application forms or nonprofit health
service plan application forms from containing inquiries about
preexisting conditions, illnesses, diseases, or medical procedures;
prohibiting an insurer or nonprofit health service plan from attaching
an exclusionary rider to an individual health benefit plan unless
specified conditions are met; authorizing an insurer or nonprofit
health service plan to impose a preexisting condition exclusion or
limitation under specified circumstances; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
Senate Action
- 9/30
 -  Pre-filed
 - 1/14
 - First Reading Finance
 - 1/21
 - Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 2/6
 - Hearing cancelled
 -      Hearing 2/12 at 1:30 p.m.
 - 3/26
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
 - 3/27
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/28
 - Third Reading Passed (47-0)
 - 4/7
 - Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
 -      Senate Requests House Recede
 -      Conference Committee Appointed ...
 -      Senators Garagiola, Kelley, and Pipkin
 - 4/10
 - Conference Committee Report Adopted
 -      Third Reading Passed (44-0)
 -      Passed Enrolled
 
House Action
- 3/27
 - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
 - 4/2
 - Re-referred Health and Government Operations
 -      Hearing 4/7 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/10
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
 - 4/4
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 4/5
 - Third Reading Passed with Amendments (133-0)
 - 4/9
 - House Refuses to Recede
 -      Conference Committee Appointed ...
 -      Delegates Pendergrass, Tarrant, and Elliott
 - 4/10
 - Conference Committee Report Adopted
 -      Third Reading Passed (132-0)
 
Action after passage in Senate and House
- 5/19
 - Approved by the Governor
 -      - Chapter 509
 
Sponsored by:
- Finance Committee, Chair
 - Departmental
 - Insurance Administration, Maryland
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Associations -see also- Cooperative Associations
 - Consumer Protection -see also- Unfair Trade Practices
 - Contracts -see also- Land Installment Contracts; Procurement
 - Disclosure
 - Fees -see also- Devt Fees and Taxes; Reimbursement Rates
 - Forms
 - Health Insurance -see also- HMOS; Managed Care Organizations
 - Health Maintenance Organizations -see also- Manage Care Orgs
 - Insurance Administration
 - Prices -see also- Consumer Price Index
 - Reports
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Health - General
 - (
 19-706 
)
 -   Insurance
 - (
 12-205 ,
 15-508.1 ,
 15-1105 ,
 15-1106 
)
 
- 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):
 Senate
- Number: 837375/01     Offered on: March 27, 2009      at:
11:25 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 
House 
- Number: 106487/01     Offered on: April 10, 2009      at:
10:56 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 
- Conference Committee Documents (Displayed in PDF Format):
 
- Report Number: 403729/1      Offered on: April 13, 2009      at:
11:01 p.m.     Status: Adopted
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
 Senate
- March 28, 2009: Third Reading Passed  (47-0)
 - April 10, 2009: Third Reading Passed  (44-0)
 
House 
- April 5, 2009: Third Reading Passed  (133-0)
 - April 10, 2009: Third Reading Passed  (132-0)