CHAPTER 602
(House Bill 43)

AN ACT concerning

Health Insurance - Standard Policy Provisions - Task Force to Study the
Non-Group Health Insurance Market

FOR the purpose of providing that certain provisions of law apply to contracts
between nonprofit health service plans and their subscribers; requiring certain
provisions to be included in certain group and blanket health insurance policies
and nonprofit health service plan contracts; authorizing the use of certain other
provisions in certain group and blanket health insurance policies and nonprofit
health service plan contracts; and generally relating to certain policy provisions
in group, individual, and blanket policies and nonprofit health service plan
contracts requiring the Insurance Commissioner to adopt regulations governing
standard contract provisions to be used by certain insurers, nonprofit health
service plans, and health maintenance organizations by a certain date;
repealing certain provisions of law relating to standard health insurance policy
provisions, subject to a certain contingency; establishing a Task Force to Study
the Non-Group Health Insurance Market; establishing the membership of the
Task Force; establishing duties of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to
make certain recommendations and to take into account and examine certain
issues; providing that the Maryland Insurance Administration and the
Maryland Health Care Access and Cost Commission shall provide staff support
for the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to submit to the Governor and the
General Assembly a preliminary report and a final report on its findings and
recommendations on or before certain dates; providing that the implementation
of a certain substantial, available, and affordable coverage product shall be
suspended until the Task Force issues a certain preliminary report; requiring the
Insurance Commissioner to certify to certain committees and to the Department
of Legislative Services that a certain contingency has occurred; providing for the
effective date of this Act; and generally relating to standard health insurance
contract provisions and, the non-group health insurance market.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article—Insurance
Section 14-102
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1997 Volume and 1998 Supplement)

(As enacted by Chapter 774 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1998)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article—Insurance
Section 15-303
Annotated Code of Maryland