CHAPTER 582
(Senate Bill 625)

AN ACT concerning

Mandated Health Insurance Services - Cost Determination

FOR the purpose of requiring the Health Care Access and Cost Commission to
determine the full cost of mandated health insurance services; requiring the
Commission to express the full cost of mandated health insurance services as a
percentage of the State's average annual wage; requiring the Commission to
express the full cost of mandated health insurance services as a percentage of
certain health insurance premium; requiring the Commission to report certain
information to the Governor and the General Assembly; requiring the
Commission to perform a certain evaluation at a certain time; authorizing the
General Assembly to consider certain information in making certain
determinations; defining a certain term; altering the date that a certain annual
report is due; making a technical correction; and generally relating to mandated
health insurance services.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 19-1501 and 19-1502
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1996 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article — Insurance
Section 15-1501
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1997 Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Insurance

Section 15-1502

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1997 Volume and 1998 Supplement)

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

Article - Health - General

19-1501.

(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.