quality of care subcommittee of the Group Health Association of America and the
National Committee for Quality Assurance.

(5) The Commission may contract with a private, nonprofit entity to
implement the system required under this subsection provided that the entity is not
an insurer.

(6) THE ANNUAL EVALUATION SUMMARY REQUIRED UNDER
PARAGRAPH (1) OF THIS SUBSECTION SHALL:

(I) INCLUDE A SUMMARY OF THE DRUG FORMULARY
ACCREDITATION STANDARDS OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON FOR QUALITY
ASSURANCE (NCQA); AND

(II) INDICATE WHETHER THE FORMULARY DEVELOPMENT
PROCESS OF EACH HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION EVALUATED COMPLIES
WITH THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE (NCQA)
ACCREDITATION STANDARDS.

SECTION 3. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 1999.

Approved May 27, 1999.

CHAPTER 677
(House Bill 990)

AN ACT concerning

Insurance - Premium Finance Companies - Return of Premiums after
Cancellation of Insurance Contract

FOR the purpose of altering the applicability of a certain requirement that an insurer
return certain gross unearned premiums to a premium finance company when
an insurance contract is canceled; altering the computation of time within which
an insurer is required to return certain gross unearned premiums to a premium
finance company when an insurance contract is canceled under certain
circumstances; and generally relating to the return of premiums to premium
finance companies.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Insurance
Section 23-405(a)
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: