File Code: Insurance - Health
- Sponsored By:
-
Chair, Finance Committee (By Request - Departmental - Insurance
Administration, Maryland)
- Entitled:
-
Health Insurance - Reform
Prohibiting health insurance application forms or nonprofit health
service plan application forms from containing inquiries about
preexisting conditions, illnesses, diseases, or medical procedures;
prohibiting an insurer or nonprofit health service plan from attaching
an exclusionary rider to an individual health benefit plan unless
specified conditions are met; authorizing an insurer or nonprofit
health service plan to impose a preexisting condition exclusion or
limitation under specified circumstances; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
Senate Action
- 9/30
- Pre-filed
- 1/14
- First Reading Finance
- 1/21
- Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/6
- Hearing cancelled
- Hearing 2/12 at 1:30 p.m.
- 3/26
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- 3/27
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/28
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- 4/7
- Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
- Senate Requests House Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Senators Garagiola, Kelley, and Pipkin
- 4/10
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (44-0)
- Passed Enrolled
House Action
- 3/27
- First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
- 4/2
- Re-referred Health and Government Operations
- Hearing 4/7 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/10
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
- 4/4
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/5
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (133-0)
- 4/9
- House Refuses to Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Delegates Pendergrass, Tarrant, and Elliott
- 4/10
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (132-0)
Action after passage in Senate and House
- 5/19
- Approved by the Governor
- - Chapter 509
Sponsored by:
- Finance Committee, Chair
- Departmental
- Insurance Administration, Maryland
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Associations -see also- Cooperative Associations
- Consumer Protection -see also- Unfair Trade Practices
- Contracts -see also- Land Installment Contracts; Procurement
- Disclosure
- Fees -see also- Devt Fees and Taxes; Reimbursement Rates
- Forms
- Health Insurance -see also- HMOS; Managed Care Organizations
- Health Maintenance Organizations -see also- Manage Care Orgs
- Insurance Administration
- Prices -see also- Consumer Price Index
- Reports
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
19-706
)
- Insurance
- (
12-205 ,
15-508.1 ,
15-1105 ,
15-1106
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Attorney General Letter (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments (Displayed in PDF Format):
Senate
- Number: 837375/01 Offered on: March 27, 2009 at:
11:25 a.m. Status: Adopted
House
- Number: 106487/01 Offered on: April 10, 2009 at:
10:56 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Conference Committee Documents (Displayed in PDF Format):
- Report Number: 403729/1 Offered on: April 13, 2009 at:
11:01 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
Senate
- March 28, 2009: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- April 10, 2009: Third Reading Passed (44-0)
House
- April 5, 2009: Third Reading Passed (133-0)
- April 10, 2009: Third Reading Passed (132-0)
