Maryland Insurance Administration, created and funded through
increased fees on licensed individuals; Insurance Fraud Division to
be established in the Attorney General's Office; payment of fees
and premium taxes by electronic funds transfer, provisions added .

Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland and
subsidiaries, restriction on the number of states in which it can
operate, altered ..................................................................................

Motor vehicle mechanical repair contracts, provisions altered..........

Permit to make annuity agreements with donors, qualifications of a
nonprofit educational or religious organization to which a permit
may be issued, provisions altered ......................................................

Premium finance companies, refund of unearned premium to
insured, requirements added.............................................................

Reinsurance intermediaries, licensing and regulation provisions
added; acquisition of subsidiaries, payment of' extraordinary
dividends, managing general agents, and examinations and
investigations, provisions altered; termination date of Insurance

Division, extended ...............................................................................

Third party administrator, definition altered to exempt securities
transfer agents ....................................................................................

Tort and Insurance Reform Oversight, Joint Committee on,

abolished............................................................................................

Insurance - Health' —

SEE ALSO Health Maintenance Organizations

Appropriations for, transfer prohibited ............................................

Breast Implants -

Coverage information for removals and breast implant-related

conditions, provision to Insurance Commissioner and availability

to consumers, physicians, and patients, requirements added ...............

Denial or conditional renewal of policy solely because insured has

had, prohibited...............................................................................

Environmental Service, Maryland, separated from the Department of
Natural Resources; personnel, powers, and organization, provisions
amended .........'....................................................................................

Family leave for State employees, payment of State health insurance
subsidy during, provisions added; work-related accident leave, pay
and benefits during, provisions altered ...........................................

Foreign health maintenance organizations with a certificate of
authority to operate in the State, establishment as a domestic
health maintenance organization or transfer of its corporate
domicile to another state, provisions added.....................................

Grandchildren, coverage under grandparent's policy, provisions
added..................................................................................................

Health insurance reform, including guaranteed access to coverage for
small employers, establishment of the Health Care Access and Cost
Commission, and implementation of cost containment strategies,.
including practice parameters for physicians, provisions, added .....

Home medical equipment, direct payment of rental amount to
provider, termination of authorization, and purchase of equipment;
provisions added .................................................................................

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INDEX

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Page

538	2680
348 460	1926 2447
490	2543
328	1882
405	2223
250	1652
112	1238
8	503
392	2120
389	2116
196	1397
616	3028
564	2827
285	1757
9	529
537	2678