Emergency medical services providers, licensure or certification,
provisions added, and regulatory authority transferred from
State Board of Physician Quality Assurance to Emergency
Medical Services Board ..................................................................
Emerging medical and surgical treatments, insurance carriers
required to provide and disclose process for evaluating, and to
establish patient selection criteria for such treatment for which
coverage is provided.......................................................................
Excellence in Education Incentive Grant Program, established to
award grants to counties to develop instructional programs and
services for gifted and talented students .....................................
Fire sprinkler contractors, licensing and regulation, provisions
added ...............................................................................................
Food establishment regulations, "excluded organization"
definition expanded to allow an eligible organization to serve
food to the public for up to 14 consecutive days once a year......
Forest conservation, provisions concerning forest mitigation
banking, forest stand delineations, afforestation and
reforestation sequence and standards, Forest Conservation
Fund, and exemptions, added and altered ...................................
Health Care Access and Cost Commission, evaluation of
committee and its regulations, requirements added ...................
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, reforms to
guarantee issue and renewability, set maximum rates and
prohibit preexisting condition limitations to persons moving
from the group to individual market and to limit preexisting
condition limitations in the large group market, provisions
added ...............................................................................................
Higher Education Investment Program and Board, established to
provide for a method of prepayment of tuition at institutions of
higher education in Maryland .......................................................
Juvenile court records concerning adjudication of delinquency,
access and use to determine defendant's eligibility for pretrial
release, provisions added ...............................................................
Kent County -
Criminal history records check of alcoholic beverages license
applicants, requirements added ................................................
Landfills that accept municipal solid waste, financial assurance
requirements, provisions added ....................................................
Maryland Infants and Toddlers Program providing early
intervention services for infants and toddlers and their families,
transferred from Office for Children, Youth, and Families to
Department of Education ..............................................................
Medical savings accounts that qualify under the federal Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996,
regulations establishing modified health benefit plan in the
small group market for, requirements added...............................
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INDEX
201
|
1912
|
332
|
2380
|
109
|
1603
|
507
|
2884
|
418
|
2667
|
559
|
3052
|
236
|
2011
|
294
|
2138
|
110
111
|
1609
1624
|
390
|
2604
|
430
|
2698
|
224
|
1975
|
385
386
|
2589
2594
|
698
|
4029
|
|