HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Section 242(e-1)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1978 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 48A - Insurance Code

242.

(E-1) (1) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS
SECTION, AN INSURER MAY REDUCE ITS RATES PREVIOUSLY APPROVED
BY THE COMMISSIONER UPON FILING THE REDUCED RATES WITH THE
COMMISSIONER WITHIN 30 DAYS AFTER THEY THE REDUCED RATES
BECOME EFFECTIVE. ANY INSURER WHICH HAS SO REDUCED ITS
RATES MAY WITHDRAW THE REDUCTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY
FILING REVISED RATES AT A LEVEL NO HIGHER THAN THE LEVEL
APPROVED BY THE COMMISSIONER PRIOR TO THE REDUCTION WITHIN
30 DAYS AFTER THEY BECOME EFFECTIVE.

(2) THE COMMISSIONER MAY REVOKE ANY REDUCTION OF
RATES MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS SUBSECTION UPON A FINDING
AFTER NOTICE AND HEARING THAT THE RATES PRODUCED ARE IN
VIOLATION OF THIS CHAPTER.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 14, 1979.

CHAPTER 361

(House Bill 894)

AN ACT concerning

Insurance - Home Health Care

FOR the purpose of clarifying the applicability of the law
requiring the offering of home health care coverage
under certain types of health insurance policies.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 48A - Insurance Code

Section 470J(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1978 Supplement)