Ch. 356                                    2003 LAWS OF MARYLAND

Annotated Code of Maryland

(2002 Replacement Volume and 2002 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article — Insurance
Section 25-405(f)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2002 Replacement Volume and 2002 Supplement)

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

Article - Insurance

25-405.

(a) The Governing Committee shall adopt a program of operation in
accordance with this subtitle.

(f) The program of operation shall establish:

(1)     a maximum limit of liability of [$500,000] $1,500,000 on real or
personal property comprised of or contained in[:

(i)] a single building; [or

(ii) multiple buildings situated on a single parcel of land or
multiple, contiguous parcels of land;] and

(2)     appropriate sublimits of liability based on construction, protection,
and class of occupancy.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 2003.

Approved May 13, 2003.

CHAPTER 356
(Senate Bill 772)

AN ACT concerning

Health Insurance - Nonprofit Health Service Plans - Reform

FOR the purpose of altering certain provisions relating to the regulation of nonprofit
health service plans; specifying the purpose of a certain provision of law;
specifying that certain nonprofit health service plans are exempt from certain
taxes; establishing the mission of nonprofit health service plans, including any
insurer or health maintenance organization wholly owned or controlled by a
nonprofit health service plan; requiring a nonprofit health service plan to

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