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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 725

After appointment, the employee is entitled to the same
benefits provided to any employee who is subject to the State
Merit System.

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1985.

Approved May 28, 1985.

CHAPTER 726

(Senate Bill 298)

AN ACT concerning

Health Insurance - Preferred Provider Policies or
Preferred Provider Contracts

FOR the purpose of permitting the offering and administration of
preferred provider health insurance policies or insurance
contracts, subject to the approval of the Insurance
Commissioner, to providers of health care services;
providing for the terms and conditions of preferred provider
health insurance policies or insurance contracts; providing
that under certain circumstances payment of services
rendered by nonpreferred providers may not be less than a
certain amount; exempting employee benefit plans regulated
by federal law or by the Employee Retirement Income Security
Act of 1974 (ERISA); and generally relating to preferred
provider health insurance policies and insurance contracts.

BY adding to

Article 48A - Insurance Code

Section 354CC, 470V, and 477CC

Annotated Code of Maryland                                                         

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1984 Supplement)

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

Article 48A - Insurance Code

354CC.

(A) (1) IN THIS SECTION THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE
MEANINGS INDICATED.

(2) "PREFERRED PROVIDER POLICIES OR PREFERRED