CHAPTER NUMBER: 120
File Code: Insurance - Health and Life
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 135
- Sponsored By:
-
The Speaker (Administration) and Delegates Goldwater, R. Baker,
Bobo, Conroy, D. Davis, Edwards, Frush, Guns, Hecht, Hubbard, Hubers,
Mandel, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, Pitkin, Turner,
Weir, K. Kelly, Barve, Brown, Busch, Donoghue,
Eckardt, Fulton, Gordon, Harrison, Hill, Kach, J. Kelly, Kirk, Krysiak,
La Vay, Love, McClenahan, McHale, Minnick, Mitchell, Moe, Pendergrass,, Walkup, Barkley, Carlson, and
Stern
- Entitled:
-
Patients' Bill of Rights Act of 1999
Requiring specified health insurance carriers to establish and
implement a procedure by which a member may receive, under specified
circumstances, a standing referral to a specialist requiring specified
health insurance entities to cover specified prescription drugs and
devices under specified circumstances; requiring the Maryland
Insurance Administration to serve as the "single point of entry" for
consumers seeking specified information about health insurance; etc.
House Action
- 2/1
- First Reading Economic Matters
- Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/2
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
- 3/3
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Special Order 3/4 (Delegate Grosfeld) Adopted
- 3/4
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Gordon) Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/9
- Third Reading Passed (130-3)
- 4/3
- House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
- House Requests Senate Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Delegates Busch, Donoghue, and Kelly
- 4/9
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (138-2)
- 4/10
- Passed Enrolled
- 4/27
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 120
Senate Action
- 3/10
- First Reading Finance
- Hearing 3/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/31
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/1
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0)
- 4/7
- Senate Refuses to Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Senators Bromwell, Dorman, and Madden
- 4/10
- Special Order later (Senator Bromwell) Adopted
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (44-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Speaker of the House of Delegates
- Administration
- Delegate Rushern L. Baker, III, District 22B
- Delegate Charles Barkley, District 39
- Delegate Kumar P. Barve, District 17
- Delegate Elizabeth Bobo, District 12B
- Delegate Anthony Brown, District 25
- Delegate Michael Erin Busch, District 30
- Delegate Paul Carlson, District 39
- Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23
- Delegate Dereck Davis, District 25
- Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
- Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37B
- Delegate George C. Edwards, District 1A
- Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
- Delegate Tony Edward Fulton, District 40
- Delegate Marilyn R. Goldwater, District 16
- Delegate Michael R. Gordon, District 17
- Delegate Ronald A. Guns, District 36
- Delegate Hattie N. Harrison, District 45
- Delegate C. Sue Hecht, District 3
- Delegate Kerry Hill, District 26
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23
- Delegate Nancy Hubers, District 6
- Delegate A. Wade Kach, District 9A
- Delegate James M. Kelly, District 9B
- Delegate Kevin Kelly, District 1B
- Delegate Ruth M. Kirk, District 44
- Delegate Carolyn J. Krysiak, District 46
- Delegate Richard La Vay, District 15
- Delegate Mary Ann E. Love, District 32
- Delegate Adrienne A. Mandel, District 19
- Delegate Charles A. McClenahan, District 38
- Delegate Brian K. McHale, District 47A
- Delegate Joseph J. Minnick, District 7
- Delegate Van T. Mitchell, District 28
- Delegate Brian R. Moe, District 21
- Delegate Dan K. Morhaim, District 11
- Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
- Delegate Nathaniel T. Oaks, District 41
- Delegate Shane E. Pendergrass, District 13A
- Delegate Joan B. Pitkin, District 23
- Delegate Joan F. Stern, District 39
- Delegate Frank S. Turner, District 13A
- Delegate Mary Roe Walkup, District 36
- Delegate Michael H. Weir, District 6
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CONSUMER PROTECTION -see also- ADVTG.; LABELING; WARRANTIES.
- DISEASES -see also- AIDS; RABIES
- DRUGS -see also- CONTROLLED DANG SUB; DRUNK & DRUGGED DRIVG.
- EQUIPMENT -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE EQUIPMENT
- HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
- HEALTH INSURANCE -see also- HMO; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS.
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS -see also- MAN. CARE ORGS
- HOME HEALTH CARE -see also- RESPITE CARE
- HOSPITALS -see also- CLINICS; STATE HOSPITALS
- INSURANCE ADMINISTRATION
- NOTICES
- PATIENTS
- PHYSICIANS
- PUBLIC INFORMATION
- REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- SUNSET
- WOMEN
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
19-706
)
- Insurance
- (
2-112.2 ,
2-112.3 ,
2-301 ,
2-302 ,
2-303 ,
2-303.1 ,
2-304 ,
2-305 ,
15-829 ,
15-830 ,
15-831 ,
15-10A-09
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 213683/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 3, 1999 at:
10:23 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 763414/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 4, 1999 at:
10:45 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Senate
- Number: 777469/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 31, 1999 at:
11:19 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 963211/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 12, 1999 at:
11:50 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Conference Committee Documents:
- Report Number: 963211/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 12, 1999 at:
10:59 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Amendment Number: 813680/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 12, 1999 at:
10:59 a.m. Status: Incomplete
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- March 9, 1999: Third Reading Passed (130-3)
- April 9, 1999: Third Reading Passed (138-2)
- Senate
- April 1, 1999: Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- April 10, 1999: Third Reading Passed (44-0)
