CHAPTER NUMBER: 268
File Code: Insurance - Health and Life
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 618
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates McHale, Nathan-Pulliam, Barve, Love, Kagan, and
Rudolph
- Entitled:
-
Health Insurance - Access to the 911 Emergency System
Prohibiting insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health
maintenance organizations from establishing or promoting an emergency
system in competition with or substitution of the 911 or specified
other emergency medical services system; authorizing the use of
transportation outside the 911 or specified other system for services
that are not in response to an emergency medical condition;
prohibiting the use of false or misleading language in specified
materials to discourage or prohibit access to the 911 system; etc.
House Action
- 2/12
- First Reading Economic Matters
- 2/17
- Hearing 3/4 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/16
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
- 3/17
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/22
- Third Reading Passed (138-0)
- 4/3
- House Concur - Senate Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (133-0)
- Passed Enrolled
- 4/27
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 268
Senate Action
- 3/22
- First Reading Finance
- 3/23
- Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/1
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/2
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Brian K. McHale, District 47A
- Delegate Kumar P. Barve, District 17
- Delegate Cheryl C. Kagan, District 17
- Delegate Mary Ann E. Love, District 32
- Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
- Delegate David D. Rudolph, District 35B
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- AMBULANCES -see also- EMERGENCIES; RESCUE SQUADS
- CONSUMER PROTECTION -see also- ADVTG.; LABELING; WARRANTIES.
- EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
- EMERGENCIES -see also- AMBULANCES; RESCUE SQUADS
- HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
- HEALTH INSURANCE -see also- HMO; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS.
- HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS -see also- MAN. CARE ORGS
- HOSPITALS -see also- CLINICS; STATE HOSPITALS
- LANGUAGE
- RESCUE SQUADS -see also- AMBULANCES; EMERGENCIES
- TELEPHONES
- TRANSPORTATION -see also- BUSES; MASS TRANSIT; RAILROADS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
19-706
)
- Insurance
- (
15-126
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 323186/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 17, 1999 at:
10:17 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- March 22, 1999: Third Reading Passed (138-0)
- April 3, 1999: Third Reading Passed (133-0)
- Senate
- April 2, 1999: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
