ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                             Ch. 385

[15-321.] 15-320.

(a)     Subject to any regulation that the Board adopts, it may reinstate a license
that has been revoked.

(b)     A license may be reinstated under this section only on:

(1)     the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the Board then
serving; and

(2)     payment to the Board of a reinstatement fee of $100.

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

Approved May 22, 2003.

CHAPTER 385
(Senate Bill 479)

AN ACT concerning

Maryland Trauma System Funding Act and Emergency Medical Response

System - Funding and Structure

FOR the purpose of establishing the Maryland Trauma Physician Services Fund;
stating the purpose of the Fund; specifying the manner in which expenditures
may be made from the Fund; specifying certain criteria and parameters to be
taken into account in developing a certain reimbursement methodology;
requiring certain physicians to apply to the Fund for reimbursement trauma
physicians and trauma centers seeking reimbursement from the Fund to apply
in a certain manner; requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission and the
Health Services Cost Review Commission to adopt regulations that specify
certain information trauma physicians and trauma centers must submit to
receive money from the Fund; stating the intent of the General Assembly that
trauma physicians and trauma centers cooperate with the Maryland Health
Care Commission and the Health Services Cost Review Commission; stating the
intent of the General Assembly that certain hospitals maintain their efforts to
subsidize certain trauma-related costs for a certain purpose; requiring the
Maryland Health Care Commission and the Health Services Cost Review
Commission to file a certain annual report with the General Assembly in a
certain manner; specifying a certain purpose of the Maryland Health Care
Commission; specifying a certain duty of the Health Services Cost Review
Commission; requiring certain insurers to remit a certain fee to the Fund in a
certain manner; authorizing certain insurers to recoup a certain fee from certain
policyholders altering the amount of a certain motor vehicle registration
surcharge; requiring that a certain amount of a certain surcharge be paid into
the Fund; requiring certain entities for which funds are appropriated in the
annual State budget from the Emergency Medical System Operations Fund to

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