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Martin O'Malley, Governor
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Ch. 627
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(b) on or before December 1, 2008, the Commission shall report its findings
and recommendations to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Health and
Government Operations Committee in accordance with § 2-1246 of the State
Government Article.
SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That on or before October 1,
2007, and on or before October 1, 2008, the Maryland Health Care Commission shall
report to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Health and Government
Operations Committee, in accordance with § 2-1246 of the State Government Article,
on:
(a) the implementation of the recommendations of the 2005 Certificate of
Need Task Force; and
(b) the progress of the Commission in implementing the recommendations of
the comprehensive evaluation of Certificate of Need required by Chapter 702 of the
Acts of 1999, including recommendations regarding:
(1) a research project for elective angioplasty; and
(2) a reorganization of the licensing and certificate of need laws for
home-based health care services.
SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That:
(a) the Maryland Health Care Commission and the Health Services Cost
Review Commission shall include in the next report on the Maryland Trauma
Physician Services Fund required under § 19-130(e) of the Health - General Article a
discussion of options for reducing the Fund surplus, including:
(1) one-time-only uses for eliminating the large surplus that has
accrued in the early years of the Fund;
(2) if the surplus is continuing to grow, ongoing uses to align annual
expenditures with annual revenues; and
(3) the desirability of providing funds directly to trauma centers for
the purpose of subsidizing trauma physician costs at the centers; and
(b) on or before November 1, 2007, the Commissions shall report their
findings and recommendations to the General Assembly, in accordance with § 2-1246
of the State Government Article.
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SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, to provide a more
complete picture of health care spending than current data collection efforts allow, on
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