[(f)] (A) Each payor shall cooperate fully in submitting reports and claims
data and providing any other information to the Maryland Health Care Access and
Cost Commission in accordance with Title 19, Subtitle [15] 1 of the Health - General
Article.

[(g)] (B) The Commissioner shall report to the Maryland Health Care and
Cost Commission in a timely manner the name and address of each payor that is
assessed a fee under [this section] § 19-111 OF THE HEALTH - GENERAL ARTICLE AND
THE INFORMATION REQUIRED UNDER § 19-111(G) OF THE HEALTH - GENERAL
ARTICLE, [and the amount of the assessment.

(h) Each payor shall pay for health care services in accordance with the
payment system adopted under § 19-1509 of the Health - General Article.]

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That:

(a) All property of any kind, including personal property, records, fixtures,
appropriations, credits, assets, liabilities, obligations, rights, and privileges, held
prior to October 1, 1999, by the State Health Resources Planning Commission shall be
and hereby are transferred to the Maryland Health Care Access and Cost
Commission;

(b) Except as otherwise provided by law, all contracts, agreements, grants, or
other obligations entered into prior to October 1, 1999, by the State Health Resources
Planning Commission and which by their terms are to continue in effect on or after
October 1, 1999, shall be valid, legal, and binding obligations of the Maryland Health
Care Access and Cost Commission, under the terms of the obligations;

(c) Any transaction affected by any change of nomenclature under this Act,
and validly entered into before October 1, 1999, and every right, duty, or interest
flowing from the transaction, remains valid on and after October 1, 1999, as if the
change of nomenclature had not occurred; and

(d) All employees who are shall be transferred to the Maryland Health Care
Access and Cost Commission or the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from
the State Health Resources Planning Commission on October 1, 1999, and shall be so
transferred without diminution of their rights, benefits, or employment or retirement
status.

(e) On or before January 1, 2000, the Maryland Health Care Commission shall
report, in accordance with § 2-1246 of the State Government Article, to the Senate
Finance Committee, the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee, the House
Environmental Matters Committee, and the House Appropriations Committee
regarding the Commission's plans for altering its permanent workforce,

SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That:

(a) The publishers of the Annotated Code of Maryland, subject to the approval
of the Department of Legislative Services, shall propose the correction of any agency
names and titles throughout the Code that are rendered incorrect by this Act; and