File Code: Insurance - Health and Life
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 457
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Dorman, Hollinger, Van Hollen, Teitelbaum, Sfikas,
Forehand, Pinsky, and Kelley
- Entitled:
-
Health Benefit Plans - Coverage for Prescription Contraceptive Drugs
or Devices
Requiring specified insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and
health maintenance organizations to provide coverage under specified
circumstances for contraceptive drugs and devices approved by the
United States Food and Drug Administration for use as contraceptives;
allowing a religious organization to request an exclusion from
coverage under specified circumstances; and imposing a specified
limitation on administration of the coverage.
Senate Action
- 2/5
- First Reading Finance
- 2/6
- Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/2
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- 3/4
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/6
- Third Reading Passed (31-14)
- 4/8
- Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
- Senate Requests House Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Madden, Trotter, Kelley
- 4/10
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (31-13)
- 4/8
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/21
- Governor vetoed - Cross-filed bill was signed
House Action
- 3/9
- First Reading Economic Matters
- 3/25
- Hearing 4/1 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/3
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
- 3/31
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/1
- Floor Amendment (Morgan) Rejected (55-75)
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (87-44)
- 4/5
- House Refuses to Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Delegates Goldwater, Pendergrass, and Eckardt
- 4/8
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (88-42)
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Arthur Dorman, District 21
- Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
- Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger, District 11
- Senator Delores G. Kelley, District 10
- Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
- Senator Perry Sfikas, District 46
- Senator Leonard H. Teitelbaum, District 19
- Senator Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., District 18
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- BIRTH CONTROL
- DRUGS -see also- CONTROLLED DANG SUB; DRUNK & DRUGGED DRIVG.
- FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
- HEALTH INSURANCE -see also- HMO; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS.
- HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS -see also- MAN. CARE ORGS
- RELIGION -see also- CHURCHES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
19-706
)
- Insurance
- (
15-826
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 427158/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 4, 1998 at:
10:56 a.m. Status: Adopted
- House
- Number: 043276/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 3, 1998 at:
10:40 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 763209/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 6, 1998 at:
8:20 p.m. Status: Rejected
- Conference Committee Documents:
- Report Number: 903003/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 11, 1998 at:
3:50 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- Senate
- March 6, 1998: Third Reading Passed (31-14)
- April 10, 1998: Third Reading Passed (31-13)
- House
- April 1, 1998: Floor Amendment (Morgan) {763209/1 Rejected (55-75)
- April 1, 1998: Third Reading Passed (87-44)
- April 8, 1998: Third Reading Passed (88-42)
