Maryland Senate Bill 72 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-3)
Status: Passed on April 18 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-04-18 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 263
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]

Authorizing a workers' compensation insurer to develop a tiered rating plan that establishes discrete tiers based on risk attributes that are not arbitrary, capricious, or unfairly discriminatory and are reasonably related to the insurer's business and economic purposes; requiring a workers' compensation insurer to submit a tiered rating plan to the Insurance Commissioner at least 30 days in advance of the plan's use; authorizing a workers' compensation insurer to use a specified merit rating plan under specified circumstances; etc.

Workers' Compensation - Tiered Rating Plans and Merit Rating Plans

Sen. Katherine Klausmeier [D]	Sen. Adelaide Eckardt [R]	Sen. Thomas Middleton [D]	Sen. Joanne Benson [D]
Sen. Brian Feldman [D]	Sen. Stephen Hershey [R]	Sen. Jim Mathias [D]	Sen. Edward Reilly [R]
Sen. Jim Rosapepe [D]

2017-03-23 - House - House Floor - Third Reading Passed (140-0) (Y: 140 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2017-03-07 - Senate - Senate Floor - Third Reading Passed (45-0) (Y: 45 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-04-18	Senate	Approved by the Governor - Chapter 263
2017-03-29	Senate	Returned Passed
2017-03-28	House	Third Reading Passed (140-0)
2017-03-27	House	Second Reading Passed
2017-03-27	House	Favorable Report Adopted
2017-03-27	House	Favorable Report by Economic Matters
2017-03-07	House	First Reading Economic Matters
2017-03-07	Senate	Third Reading Passed (45-0)
2017-03-03	Senate	Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2017-03-03	Senate	Favorable with Amendments {667176/1 Report Adopted
2017-03-02	Senate	Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
2017-02-21	Senate	Hearing 2/21 at 1:30 p.m.
2017-02-03	Senate	Hearing canceled
2017-02-21	Senate	Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
2017-01-11	Senate	First Reading Finance
2016-10-27	Senate	Pre-filed

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0072?ys=2017rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/sb/sb0072f.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/sb/sb0072t.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/Chapters_noln/CH_263_sb0072t.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/amds/bil_0002/sb0072_66717601.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/fnotes/bil_0002/sb0072.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/votes_comm/sb0072_fin.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/votes_comm/sb0072_ecm.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=flrvotepage&tab=subject3&id=sb0072,s-0439&stab=02&ys=2017RS
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=flrvotepage&tab=subject3&id=sb0072,h-0957&stab=02&ys=2017RS