PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 132

CHAPTER 132
(House Bill 39)

AN ACT concerning

Insurance - Unfair Trade Practices - Discrimination Based on Domestic Violence

FOR the purpose of prohibiting insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health
maintenance organizations from taking certain actions or engaging in certain
practices related to underwriting, issuance or renewal of, or payment of claims on
life or health insurance policies or health benefit plans based on certain information
related to domestic violence; establishing immunity from certain actions for insurers
under certain circumstances; defining certain terms; providing for the construction
of certain provisions of this Act; granting certain powers to the Insurance
Commissioner; and generally relating to a prohibition against discrimination by
certain entities based on domestic violence.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 48A - Insurance Code
Section 234C

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 48A - Insurance Code

Section 234D

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 19-706(g)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1990 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

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

Article 48A - Insurance Code

234C.

If the Commissioner in a specific instance shall make a finding that an insurer has
violated [ § 234A or § 234B,] § 234A, § 234B, OR § 234D, he may, in addition to the exercise
of any power granted elsewhere in this article, order the insurer to accept the risk, or
accept the business, as the case may be. All hearings and proceedings conducted under
this section and §§ 234A [ and 234B], 234B, AND 234D of this article, as well as any

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