HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(a) The affairs and operations of the Department shall
be supervised and directed by a Superintendent. The
Superintendent shall report to the Secretary of Public
Safety and Correctional Services [and the deputy secretary
for public safety]. However, nothing herein or in Article
41 of this Code shall be construed to prevent the
Superintendent from reporting directly to the Governor with
respect to any matters which, in the Superintendent's
judgment, should be brought to the immediate attention of
the Governor as Chief Executive of the State.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved June 1, 1982.

CHAPTER 800

(Senate Bill 403)

AN ACT concerning

Health Insurance - Home Health Care

FOR the purpose of requiring all health insurance policies
which provide certain inpatient hospital care to
provide benefits for the expenses of home health care
as prescribed by a person licensed under the Health
Occupations Article; and correcting an error.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 48A - Insurance Code

Section 470J(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

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

Article 48A - Insurance Code

470J.

(b) [After July 1, 1979, every insurer issuing a
policy of health insurance for delivery] ALL HEALTH
INSURANCE POLICIES ISSUED OR DELIVERED in this State which
[provides] PROVIDE coverage for [in-patient] INPATIENT
hospital care on an expense-incurred basis shall [make known