EMERGENCY BILL
File Code: Insurance - Health
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate Donoghue
- Entitled:
-
Nonprofit Health Entities - Blue Cross and Blue Shield Trademarks
Requiring that a nonprofit health service plan that operates under,
uses, or displays a Blue Cross or Blue Shield trademark or service
mark be organized and operated as a private nonprofit corporation and
comply with the laws that regulate nonprofit health service plans;
providing that an acquisition is not in the public interest unless
steps have been taken to ensure that a Blue Cross or Blue Shield
trademark or service mark is not acquired by a transferee or other
for-profit corporation as part of the aquisition; etc.
House Action
- 2/18
- First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
- 2/25
- Re-referred Economic Matters
- 2/27
- Hearing 3/5 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/25
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
- 3/23
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/24
- Third Reading Passed (134-1)
Senate Action
- 3/26
- First Reading Finance
- Hearing 4/2 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/27
- Hearing cancelled
- Hearing 4/3 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/6
- Unfavorable Report by Finance
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- COPYRIGHT
- CORPORATIONS -see also- MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS
- HEALTH INSURANCE -see also- HMOS; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS
- HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS -see also- MAN CARE ORGS
- MERGERS
- NAMES -see also- PROPER NAMES
- NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Insurance
- (
14-103
)
- State Government
- (
6.5-301
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 173898/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 25, 2002 at:
1:28 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Vote (Legislative date is shown):
- House
- March 24, 2002: Third Reading Passed (134-1)
