Mail SEE Postal Service
Malpractice SEE Medical Malpractice
Managed Care Organizations —

SEE ALSO Health Maintenance Organizations

Medicaid health plan fraud or making false representations
relating to Medicaid health plans, criminal penalties and
statutes of limitation, established .................................................

Medical review committee proceedings, records, and files,
discovery and admissibility in evidence in civil actions,
provisions altered ...........................................................................

Modification of capitation rate methodology to ensure that
graduate medical education costs are reimbursed appropriately
among managed care organizations, study required ...................

Substance abuse screening and treatment of welfare recipients,
medical assistance, Family Investment Program, and food
stamp benefits to legal immigrants, medical assistance for
minors newly ineligible for SSI benefits, immunity for third

party payees, and expansion of demonstration projects .............

Mandates —

Baltimore City -

Hotel room tax, limit on maximum rate, extended; appropriation
for convention center marketing and tourism promotion,
requirements added ....................................................................

Police Department and employees included within Local

Government Tort Claims Act .....................................................

Sheriff and deputy sheriffs, death benefit and funeral expenses,

provisions added .........................................................................

Baltimore County -

Discrimination by employers of fewer than 15 persons against

an employee, civil action against employer authorized ...........

Orphans' Court judges, salary increased ......................................

Sheriff, maximum salary increased ..............................................

State's Attorneys, appointment and salary of deputy and

assistant, provisions altered ......................................................

Charles County -

County Commissioners, County Treasurer, and School Board

Chairman, salaries and expenses increased .............................

Civil actions by prisoners, filing fees, exhaustion of administrative
remedies, frivolous actions, and payment of awarded damages to
satisfy pending restitution or child support orders, provisions

added and amended .......................................................................

Excellence in Education Incentive Grant Program, established to
award grants to counties to develop instructional programs and

services for gifted and talented students .....................................

Frederick County -
State's Attorney, County Treasurer, Sheriff, and Orphans' Court
judges, salaries increased ..........................................................

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INDEX

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Page

713	4091
696	4024
3	158
593	3264
611 612	3392 3393
364	2507
129	1714
348 538 18	2450 2985 550
19	551
537	2983
495	2855
109	1603
518	2918