MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                          1747

[[partial hospitalization, day hospitalization, or]]
[out-patient treatment,] ALL THOSE SERVICES, OTHER THAN
INPATIENT WHICH ARE RENDERED TO TREAT ACUTE MENTAL
ILLNESS AND EMOTIONAL DISORDERS, shall be at a rate which
is not less than [twenty-five percent(25%) nor more than
eighty percent (80%) [[50 PERCENT]] twenty-five percent
nor more than eighty percent of the benefits which the
policy provides for other types of illness.

477E.

(a) Every [[health]] HOSPITAL OR MAJOR MEDICAL
insurance policy delivered or, issued for deliverance
under this subtitle to any person in this State oust
include benefits for expenses arising from treatment of
acute mental illnesses and emotional disorders which in
the professional judgment of practitioners are subject to
significant improvement through short term therapy.
These benefits must be at least equal to the following
minimum requirements; (1) with respect to benefits for
confinement as an in—patient in a hospital, the period of
confinement for which benefits are payable shall be at
least thirty (30) days in any calendar year OR BENEFIT
PERIOD; (2) with respect to major medical expense
coverage, benefits, after the applicable deductible, for
covered expenses arising from [[partial hospitalization,
day hospitalization, or]] [out—patient treatment,] ALL
THOSE SERVICES, OTHER THAN INPATIENT, WHICH ARE RENDERED
TO TREAT ACUTE MENTAL ILLNESS AND EMOTIONAL DISORDERS,
shall be at a rate which is not less than [twenty—five
percent (25%) nor more than eighty percent (80%) ] [[50
PERCENT]] twenty—five percent nor more than eighty
percent of the benefits which the policy provides for
other types of illness.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1974.

Approved April 30, 1974.

CHAPTER 479
(House Bill 945)
AN ACT concerning
Montgomery County — Judges

FOR the purpose of increasing the number of District
Court Judges in Montgomery County.