CHAPTER NUMBER: 437
File Code: Public Health
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 486/99 - FIN
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 359
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates D. Davis, R. Baker, Oaks, Nathan-Pulliam, and Cane
- Entitled:
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Medical Assistance - Program Recipients - Continuity of Care
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish
mechanisms for identifying the primary care provider of a recipient of
medical assistance and maintaining continuity of care with that
provider; requiring a managed care organization, under specified
circumstances, to assign a recipient of medical assistance to a
particular primary care provider and to honor a request to change
primary care providers within the same managed care organization; etc.
House Action
- 2/11
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 2/23
- Hearing 3/2 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/22
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
- 3/23
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/25
- Motion Reconsider Second Reading (Delegate Hammen) Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Hammen) Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/26
- Third Reading Passed (139-0)
- 4/2
- House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
- House Requests Senate Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Delegates D. Davis, Sher, and Boutin
- 4/6
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (132-0)
- 4/7
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/11
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 437
Senate Action
- 3/27
- First Reading Finance
- 3/28
- Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/3
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- 4/2
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/3
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0)
- 4/5
- Senate Refuses to Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Senators Exum, Dorman, and DeGrange
- 4/7
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Dereck E. Davis, District 25
- Delegate Rushern L. Baker, III, District 22B
- Delegate Rudolph C. Cane, District 37A
- Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
- Delegate Nathaniel T. Oaks, District 41
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS -see also specific health occupations-
- MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS -see also- HEALTH MAINT ORGS
- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
- NOTICES
- PATIENTS
- PHYSICIANS -see also- DENTISTS; MED EXMNRS; PSYCH; etc
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
15-102.5 ,
15-103 ,
15-103
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 060718/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 23, 2000 at:
10:56 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 643127/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 25, 2000 at:
11:59 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Senate
- Number: 717578/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 3, 2000 at:
10:33 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Conference Committee Documents::
- Report Number: 133820/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 10, 2000 at:
2:42 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- March 26, 2000: Third Reading Passed (139-0)
- April 6, 2000: Third Reading Passed (132-0)
- Senate
- April 3, 2000: Third Reading Passed (45-0)
- April 7, 2000: Third Reading Passed (46-0)
