HARRY HUGHES, Governor

1345

16-501.

This title may be cited as the "Maryland Psychologists
[Certification] Act".

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That section(s)
of the Annotated Code of Maryland be repealed, amended, or
enacted to read as follows:

Article 48A - Insurance Code

354.

(a)  Any corporation without capital stock heretofore
or hereafter organized for the purpose of establishing,
maintaining and operating a nonprofit health service plan
whereby hospital, medical, chiropodial, chiropractic,
pharmaceutical, dental, psychological or optometric care is
provided by a hospital, or hospitals, a physician or
physicians, a chiropodist or chiropodists, a chiropractor or
chiropractors, a pharmacist or pharmacists, a dentist or
dentists, a duly [certified] LICENSED psychologist or
psychologists, or an optometrist or optometrists, to persons
who become subscribers to such plan under contracts which
entitle each subscriber to certain hospital, medical,
chiropodial, chiropractic, pharmaceutical, dental,
psychological, or optometric care or any of them, shall be
governed and regulated by the provisions of this subtitle,
and by no other law relating to insurance unless such law is
referred to under this subtitle, and no law hereafter
enacted shall apply to such corporations, unless they are
expressly designated therein, and specifically refer to such
corporations.

355.

(b)  The Insurance Commissioner shall issue a
certificate of authority or license to each applicant upon
the payment of the fees provided for by § 41 of this article
and upon being satisfied:

(2) That each contract executed, or proposed to
be executed, by the applicant and any hospital, physician,
chiropodist, chiropractor, pharmacist, dentist,
psychologist, or optometrist, for the furnishing of
hospital, medical, chiropodial, chiropractic,
pharmaceutical, dental, psychological, or optometric service
to the subscribers to the health service plan, obligates, or
will when executed, obligate each hospital, physician,
chiropodist, chiropractor, pharmacist, dentist,
psychologist, or optometrist party thereto to render the
service to which each subscriber may be entitled under the
terms and conditions of the various contracts issued, or
proposed to be issued, by the applicant to subscribers to
the plan, and that each subscriber shall be entitled to