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Ch. 343 2005 LAWS OF MARYLAND
Approved May 10, 2005.
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CHAPTER 343
(Senate Bill 895)
AN ACT concerning
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Maryland Health Insurance
Plan - Computerized Eligibility System
FOR the purpose of authorizing the Board of the Maryland Health Insurance Plan
(MHIP) to authorize the use of certain funding transfer of certain funds from the
Maryland Health Insurance Plan Fund to the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene Major Information Technology Development Project Fund to design and
develop a certain computerized eligibility system; providing that certain money
transferred shall be redistributed to the Maryland Health Insurance Plan under
certain circumstances; providing for the purpose of the computerized eligibility
system; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to submit a
certain report to the Board of MHIP including certain information; prohibiting
the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from implementing a certain
plan until certain actions have been taken by the Board of MHIP; making this
Act subject to a certain contingency; and generally relating to the development
of a computerized eligibility system for the Maryland Health Insurance Plan by
the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That:
(a) (1) (i) Notwithstanding the provisions of § 14-504 of the Insurance
Article, in fiscal year 2007 2006 only, the Board for the Maryland Health Insurance
Plan may authorize the use transfer of not more than $15,000,000 from the Maryland
Health Insurance Plan Fund toward to the Major Information Technology
Development Project Fund established under § 3-410.2 of the State Finance and
Procurement Article to be used for the design and development of a computerized
eligibility system for the Medicaid Program by the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene.
(ii) Notwithstanding the provisions of § 3-410.2 of the State
Finance and Procurement Article, to the extent that the money transferred under this
paragraph is not used for the purposes authorized under this subsection, the money
shall be redistributed to the Maryland Health Insurance Plan Fund.
(b) (2) The purpose purposes of the computerized eligibility system is are to:
(1) (i) to enroll eligible individuals more efficiently in the Medicaid
Program;
(2) (ii) to refer eligible individuals to the Maryland Health Insurance
Plan; and
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