Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, reforms to
guarantee issue and renewability, set maximum rates and
prohibit preexisting condition limitations to persons moving
from the group to individual market and to limit preexisting
condition limitations in the large group market, provisions
added ...............................................................................................

Insurance professionals, certificates of qualification, issuance,
expiration, renewal, and reinstatement, provisions altered .......

Medical records, disclosure by health care providers without the
authorization of the person in interest, provisions altered ........

Mutual insurers, conversion to stock insurers, provisions altered .

Uniform laboratory referral form, requirements repealed .............

Interest —

Baltimore City -

Foreclosure of right of redemption, property taxes, interest and
penalties paid by plaintiff in an action included as
reimbursable expenses, provisions clarified .............................

Charles County -
Water and sewer systems and stormwater management areas,
authority of County Commissioners to acquire, improve,
construct, and extend, provisions added ...................................

Mutual insurance companies, use of proxies in consolidation or
merger votes, ceiling on interest rates on loans, and acquisition
or formation of subsidiary insurance holding company,
provisions altered; commission or promotion expense in
connection with loan to mutual or stock insurers, prohibition
repealed ...........................................................................................

Payment of taxes in immediately available funds, provisions
altered .............................................................................................

State Retirement and Pension System member contributions,

deduction from earnings by employers, provisions clarified ......

Interior Designers —

Continuing education requirements for renewal of certificate,
altered .............................................................................................

Staggered expiration of licenses and certificates, provisions added

State Board of Certified, appropriation to .......................................

International Affairs —

Acts of international terrorism committed outside the United
States against a Maryland resident, included in criminal
injuries compensation provisions ..................................................

Engineers, licensure by reciprocity by State Board for Professional
Engineers, provisions clarified ......................................................

Holocaust assets held by Swiss banks, support and encouragement
of efforts to investigate issues surrounding, provisions added ...

Maryland Securities Act, revised to conform to federal law,
including provisions concerning registration requirement
exemptions, notice filing and fees, uniform reporting, record
keeping and bonding requirements, mutual fund regulation,
disciplinary action, and restitution and rescission ......................

National Katyn Memorial, bond funds for .......................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

294	2138
656	3755
185 108 281	1874 1584 2111
342	2423
464	2773
293	2133
406	2634
159	1789
670 59 3	3858 1372 175
46	1289
42	1283
JR3	4358
613 435	3394 2708