CHAPTER NUMBER: 112
File Code: Insurance - Health and Life
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Donoghue, Taylor, Busch, Guns, Dewberry, Hurson,
Rawlings, Curran, Vallario, Hixson, Harrison, Menes, Kopp, Arnick,
Owings, W. Baker, Barve, Benson, Bozman, E. Burns, Cadden, Clagett,
Conroy, Conway, C. Davis, Dembrow, Doory, Dypski, Finifter, Franchot,
Frank, Frush, Fulton, Genn, Goldwater, Hammen, Hecht, Heller, Howard,
Jones, Krysiak, Linton, Love, Malone, Mandel, Marriott, McIntosh,
Minnick, V. Mitchell, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Patterson, Perry,
Petzold, Pitkin, Preis, Rosenberg, Rudolph, Shriver, Slade, Turner,
Weir, Wood, Workman, DeCarlo,
McHale, Miller, Valderrama, Gordon, Kach, McClenahan, Eckardt, Boston,
Exum, Kirk, Pendergrass, Mohorovic, D. Davis, Ciliberti, Stup, Elliott,
Stull, Klausmeier, and
Snodgrass
- Entitled:
-
Health Insurance - Complaint Process for Adverse Decisions and
Grievances
Requiring a carrier to establish an internal grievance process for its
members and to file a copy of its process with the Maryland Insurance
Commissioner and the Health Education and Advocacy Unit in the
Division of Consumer Protection of the Office of the Attorney General;
authorizing the Commissioner to seek and receive certain advice from
an independent review organization or specified other individuals;
transferring the responsibility for receiving complaints on health
maintenance organizations to the Commissioner; etc.
House Action
- 1/14
- First Reading Economic Matters & Environmental Matters
- 1/21
- Hearing 1/28 at 2:00 p.m.
- 2/16
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
- 2/17
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Special Order 2/19 (Delegate Busch) Adopted
- 2/19
- Special Order 2/20 (Delegate Busch) Adopted
- 2/20
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Busch) Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Arnick) Adopted
- Special Order 2/24 (Delegate Busch) Adopted
- 2/24
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Billings) Withdrawn
- Floor Amendment (Genn) Rejected (51-74)
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Donoghue) Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 2/27
- Third Reading Passed (138-2)
- 4/4
- House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
- House Requests Senate Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Delegates Busch, McClenahan, and McHale
- 4/7
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (138-0)
- 4/11
- Passed Enrolled
- 4/28
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 112
Senate Action
- 3/2
- First Reading Finance & Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 3/18
- Hearing 4/2 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/25
- Re-assigned Finance
- Hearing 4/2 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/6
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/7
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0)
- 4/10
- Senate Refuses to Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Senators Bromwell, Dorman, and Madden
- 4/11
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (45-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
- Delegate John S. Arnick, District 7
- Delegate Wheeler R. Baker, District 36
- Delegate Kumar P. Barve, District 17
- Delegate Joanne C. Benson, District 24
- Delegate Frank D. Boston, Jr., District 41
- Delegate K. Bennett Bozman, District 38
- Delegate Emmett C. Burns, Jr., District 10
- Delegate Michael Erin Busch, District 30
- Delegate Joan Cadden, District 31
- Delegate Barrie S. Ciliberti, District 39
- Delegate Virginia P. Clagett, District 30
- Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23
- Delegate Norman H. Conway, District 38
- Delegate Gerald J. Curran, District 43
- Delegate Clarence Davis, District 45
- Delegate Dereck Davis, District 25
- Delegate Diane DeCarlo, District 6
- Delegate Dana Lee Dembrow, District 20
- Delegate Thomas E. Dewberry, District 47B
- Delegate Ann Marie Doory, District 43
- Delegate Cornell N. Dypski, District 46
- Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37B
- Delegate Donald B. Elliott, District 4B
- Delegate Nathaniel Exum, District 24
- Delegate Michael J. Finifter, District 11
- Delegate Peter Franchot, District 20
- Delegate Robert L. Frank, District 11
- Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
- Delegate Tony Edward Fulton, District 40
- Delegate Gilbert J. Genn, District 16
- Delegate Marilyn R. Goldwater, District 16
- Delegate Michael R. Gordon, District 17
- Delegate Ronald A. Guns, District 36
- Delegate Peter A. Hammen, District 46
- Delegate Hattie N. Harrison, District 45
- Delegate Sue C. Hecht, District 3
- Delegate Henry B. Heller, District 19
- Delegate Sheila Ellis Hixson, District 20
- Delegate Carolyn J. B. Howard, District 24
- Delegate John Adams Hurson, District 18
- Delegate Adrienne A. Jones, District 10
- Delegate A. Wade Kach, District 9A
- Delegate Ruth M. Kirk, District 44
- Delegate Katherine Klausmeier, District 8
- Delegate Nancy K. Kopp, District 16
- Delegate Carolyn J. Krysiak, District 46
- Delegate Samuel C. Linton, District 28
- Delegate Mary Ann E. Love, District 32
- Delegate James E. Malone, Jr., District 12A
- Delegate Adrienne A. Mandel, District 19
- Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, District 40
- Delegate Charles A. McClenahan, District 38
- Delegate Brian K. McHale, District 47A
- Delegate Maggie L. McIntosh, District 42
- Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
- Delegate Ellen L. Willis Miller, District 5
- Delegate Joseph J. Minnick, District 7
- Delegate Van T. Mitchell, District 28
- Delegate Jacob J. Mohorovic, Jr., District 7
- Delegate Dan K. Morhaim, District 11
- Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
- Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
- Delegate Obie Patterson, District 26
- Delegate Shane E. Pendergrass, District 13A
- Delegate Marsha G. Perry, District 33
- Delegate Carol Stoker Petzold, District 19
- Delegate Joan B. Pitkin, District 23
- Delegate Mary Louise Preis, District 34
- Delegate Howard P. Rawlings, District 40
- Delegate Samuel I. Rosenberg, District 42
- Delegate David D. Rudolph, District 35B
- Delegate Mark K. Shriver, District 15
- Delegate John F. Slade, III, District 29B
- Delegate Louise V. Snodgrass, District 3
- Delegate Paul S. Stull, District 4A
- Delegate J. Anita Stup, District 3
- Delegate Casper R. Taylor, Jr., District 1C
- Delegate Frank S. Turner, District 13A
- Delegate David M. Valderrama, District 26
- Delegate Joseph F. Vallario, Jr., District 27A
- Delegate Michael H. Weir, District 6
- Delegate John F. Wood, Jr., District 29A
- Delegate Betty Workman, District 1B
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- APPEALS -see also- JUDICIAL REVIEW
- ATTORNEY GENERAL
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- CONSUMER PROTECTION -see also- ADVTG.; LABELING; WARRANTIES.
- FEES -see also- DEVELOPMENT FEES AND TAXES
- GENERAL ASSEMBLY -see also- AELR CMTE; LEGISLATIVE POLICY
- HEALTH INSURANCE -see also- HMO; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS.
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS -see also- MAN. CARE ORGS
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS
- HEALTH PLANNING AND COST REVIEW
- INSURANCE ADMINISTRATION
- INVESTIGATIONS AND INQUIRIES -see also- CRIM BCKGRND INVEST.
- JURISDICTION
- LICENSES -see also- ALC. BEVERAGES LICENSES; DRIVERS' LIC
- NOTICES
- PATIENTS
- PENALTIES
- PHYSICIANS
- REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- SUNSET
- UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Commercial Law
- (
13-4A-02 ,
13-4A-04
)
- Health - General
- (
19-705.2 ,
19-706 ,
19-708 ,
19-728 ,
19-729 ,
19-730 ,
19-1301 ,
19-1305.1 ,
19-1306 ,
19-1311.1 ,
19-1312 ,
19-1313
)
- Insurance
- (
2-104 ,
2-104 ,
2-112.2 ,
2-112.3 ,
2-114 ,
15-112 ,
15-1001 ,
15-10A-01 ,
15-10A-02 ,
15-10A-03 ,
15-10A-04 ,
15-10A-05 ,
15-10A-06 ,
15-10A-07 ,
15-10A-08 ,
15-10A-09 ,
15-10B-01 ,
15-10B-01 ,
15-10B-03 ,
15-10B-04 ,
15-10B-05 ,
15-10B-05 ,
15-10B-06 ,
15-10B-06 ,
15-10B-07 ,
15-10B-09 ,
15-10B-10 ,
15-10B-10 ,
15-10B-11 ,
15-10B-12 ,
15-10B-13 ,
15-10B-14 ,
15-10B-16 ,
15-10B-17 ,
15-10B-17 ,
15-10B-18 ,
15-10B-18 ,
15-10C-01 ,
15-10C-02 ,
15-10C-03 ,
15-10C-04 ,
27-303 ,
27-304
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 023700/1 (PDF) Offered on: February 24, 1998 at:
10:43 a.m. Status: Withdrawn
- Number: 343101/1 (PDF) Offered on: February 24, 1998 at:
11:05 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 623971/1 (PDF) Offered on: February 17, 1998 at:
10:13 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 793209/1 (PDF) Offered on: February 20, 1998 at:
11:13 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 943503/1 (PDF) Offered on: February 20, 1998 at:
11:14 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 943506/1 (PDF) Offered on: February 24, 1998 at:
10:53 a.m. Status: Rejected
- Senate
- Number: 347757/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 6, 1998 at:
8:56 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Conference Committee Documents:
- Report Number: 583608/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 11, 1998 at:
1:55 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Amendment Number: 093303/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 11, 1998 at:
1:55 p.m. Status: Incomplete
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- February 24, 1998: Floor Amendment (Genn) {943506/1 Rejected (51-74)
- February 27, 1998: Third Reading Passed (138-2)
- April 7, 1998: Third Reading Passed (138-0)
- Senate
- April 7, 1998: Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- April 11, 1998: Third Reading Passed (45-0)
