CHAPTER 338
(Senate Bill 302)

AN ACT concerning

Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Physician Profiles - Disclosure to

the Public

FOR the purpose of requiring the Board of Physician Quality Assurance to create an
individual profile on each licensed physician that includes certain information;
requiring the Board to provide certain Internet links from the Board's Internet
site; requiring the Board to provide a written copy of a profile to certain persons
under certain circumstances; requiring the Board to make all profiles available
on the internet; with a certain exception, requiring the Board, before making a
profile available to the public, to' provide a licensee with a written copy of the
licensee's profile and a certain period to correct factual inaccuracies; requiring
the Board to include information relating to a final disciplinary action taken by
the Board against the licensee in the licensee's profile within a certain period
after the action becomes final; defining a certain terms term; and generally
relating to the Board of Physician Quality Assurance and disclosure of
information relating to physicians.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Health Occupations
Section 14-411(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article — Health Occupations
Section 14-411(b) and (c)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Health Occupations
Section 14-411.1
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

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