PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 646

(b)     The Commissioner is empowered at any time to require any nonprofit health
service plan in this State to demonstrate that its filings, including the terms and provisions
of its contracts and its table of rates and its method for setting rates, are in compliance
with subsection (a) hereof, notwithstanding that the filings then in effect had previously
been approved by the Commissioner.

(c)     If at any time subsequent to the applicable review period provided for in
subsection (a) of this section, the Commissioner finds that a filing does not meet the
requirements of this section, the Commissioner shall, after a hearing held upon not less
than 10 days' written notice to the filer, specifying the matters to be considered at the
hearing, issue an order to the filer specifying in what respects the Commissioner finds
that the filing fails to meet the requirements of this section, and stating when, within a
reasonable period thereafter, the filing shall be no longer effective. The order shall not
affect any contract or policy made or issued prior to the expiration of the period set forth
in the order. The order shall not directly affect any existing contract or policy between a
nonprofit health service plan and a participant, established pursuant to a collective
bargaining procedure.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1996.

Approved May 23, 1996.

CHAPTER 646
(House Bill 1084)

AN ACT concerning

Community Services Trust Fund

FOR the purpose of establishing a Community Services Trust Fund for the purpose of
holding certain moneys that result from the long-term lease or sale of property and
equipment of a Developmental Disabilities Administration facility or Mental
Hygiene Administration facility; specifying the accounts in the Trust Fund;
specifying the transfer of certain moneys from the accounts in the Trust Fund under
certain circumstances; specifying the method of expenditures from the Trust Fund;
specifying that any unspent funds in the Trust Fund may not be transferred or revert
to the General Fund of the State; requiring the Governor to include in the annual
Budget Bill a certain appropriation from specified special funds for a certain
purpose; repealing a certain termination date related to certain special funds;
repealing a certain provision concerning the proposed appropriation of certain
moneys by the Governor in the annual Budget Bill under certain circumstances;
specifying that this Act applies to certain sales or leases occurring after a certain date;
providing for the effective date of this Act; providing for the termination of certain
provisions of this Act; defining a certain term certain terms; and generally relating to
establishing a Community Services Trust Fund.

BY adding to

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