HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                     3209

472A.

(A)  ALL GROUP HEALTH INSURANCE POLICIES SHALL PROVIDE
CONTINUOUS OPEN ENROLLMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF ALLOWING A MARRIED
EMPLOYEE WHO IS ENROLLED UNDER A GROUP HEALTH INSURANCE POLICY TO
ALTER THE TERMS OF HIS THEIR COVERAGE TO INCLUDE THE EMPLOYEE'S
SPOUSE OR CHILDREN, IF THE SPOUSE LOSES COVERAGE UNDER ANOTHER
GROUP HEALTH INSURANCE POLICY DUE TO INVOLUNTARY TERMINATION OF
THE SPOUSE'S EMPLOYMENT. INVOLUNTARY TERMINATION DOES NOT MEAN
TERMINATION FOR CAUSE.

(B)  EVIDENCE OF INSURABILITY MAY NOT BE REQUIRED FOR A
SPOUSE WHO QUALIFIES FOR GROUP HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE UNDER
THIS SECTION.

(C) A MARRIED EMPLOYEE WHO WISHES TO ALTER TERMS OF THEIR
COVERAGE UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL NOTIFY THEIR EMPLOYER NOT MORE
THAN 6 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE ON WHICH THE COVERAGE OF THE
EMPLOYEE'S SPOUSE UNDER ANOTHER GROUP HEALTH INSURANCE POLICY
TERMINATES.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

Approved May 29, 1984.

CHAPTER 660

(House Bill 916)

AN ACT concerning

Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights -
Investigatory File

FOR the purpose of providing that a law enforcement officer under
investigation shall be furnished with a copy of the
investigatory file, with certain exceptions, not less than a
certain time before any hearing if certain conditions as to
confidentiality of the file and payment of costs are met.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 728(b)(5)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Replacement Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: