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Insurance fraud, expanded to include soliciting a person injured in an
auto accident to sue or hire a lawyer to sue or to seek care from a
health care practitioner; Insurance Fraud Unit required to notify
appropriate professional licensing boards of insurance fraud and

gross overutilization of health care services ..................................... 348 2262

Life or health insurance policies or health benefit plans,

discrimination based on domestic violence, prohibited................... 131 1452

132 1455
Montgomery County -
Health department, local, and local department of social services,
transfer of duties from the State to county government, State

funding, and transfer of State employees, provisions added ....... 476 2837

Negotiable instruments, revision of the Uniform Commercial Code

provisions ............................................................................................         91 1226

Solicitation by attorneys of clients concerning a civil action relating to
an accident or disaster or to a criminal prosecution or prosecution

of a traffic offense, restrictions added .............................................. 669 3803

Structured settlement of a claim against the State, authorized ......... 446 2755

Trees or timber, unlawful cutting, injuring or destroying, additional
costs and fees included in damages for which person is liable,

provisions added ................................................................................. 415 2680

Civil Defense SEE Emergencies

Civil Rights SEE Discrimination; Privacy

Classified Employees SEE State Employees

Clergy SEE Religion

Clerks of Court —

Appropriation to ...................................................................................         13 713

898
Baltimore City -

Appropriation to ................................................................................         13 986

Harford County -
Recordation of instruments effecting change of real property
ownership and transfer of property on assessment records,

provisions altered ........................................................................... 413 2678

Victims, notification of rights, services, and proceedings during

criminal justice process, procedures established .............................. 641 3652

Clinics —
Ambulatory surgical facility, freestanding, certificate of need

requirements for acquisition by a hospital, provisions added ......... 466 2815

Cancer registry, report of cancer patients by physicians and
freestanding ambulatory care facilities, and immunity from liability
of reporting health care providers and facilities, provisions added . 235 1703

Health Care for the Homeless, bond funds for................................... 335 2008

House of Mercy Center, bond funds for health clinic and family and

community support services............................................................... 305 1862

Impact on primary care providers and freestanding facilities of laws
and regulations authorizing or requiring enrollment of medicaid

recipients into managed care plans, study required ........................ 549 3113

Mammography testing centers, required conditions for performing
mammography testing, altered .......................................................... 416 2681

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