Model Act

Model Act

A legislative template designed for use by the States in the US, which provides them with the powers they need to detect and contain bioterrorism or a naturally occurring disease outbreak.

Public health functions served by Model Act
• Preparedness—comprehensive planning for a public health emergency;
• Surveillance—measures to detect and track public health emergencies;
• Management of property—vaccines, medicines, hospitals; and provide power to abate hazards to the public’s health;
• Protection of persons—powers to compel vaccination, testing, treatment, isolation and quarantine when clearly needed;
• Communication—provide clear and authoritative information to the public.
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The Model Act provides for its applicability for the whole of the State i.e.
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NCPA is also working with certain states to pass comprehensive PBM regulations patterned after a new PBM model act that the group helped draft and which was approved by the National Council of Insurance Legislators last December.
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HONOLULU, Hawaii -- A model act to require that licensed insurance companies notify their state regulators when they are engaged in activities defined generally as "fronting," has been adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, meeting here for its winter national meeting.
New NAIC Model Act Requires Insurers To Tell Insurance Dept. About Frontinq Arrangements
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proposed Model Act Governing Assisted Reproductive Technology Agencies.
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4, also found that more than three-fourths of regulators implementing NASAA's Model Act to Protect Vulnerable Adults from Financial Exploitation were able to prevent senior financial exploitation by stopping the distribution of funds to fraudsters.
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The Model Act would bring uniformity in the legislative provisions, making it easier for all the states to adopt it and thereby ensuring uniform working conditions across the country.
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That's because the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) recently voted to adopt a model act designed to better address financial abuse.
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At the spring meeting, NCOIL gave its Long-Term Care Tax Credit Model Act, which was first adopted by the NCOIL Executive Committee in 2001, a routine five-year renewal.
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In legal circles, a preceding "Uniform" in a legislative act is a squawking red herring and, in this context, means a law is based on a model act recommended for adoption by the various jurisdictions.
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Around that time, the issue was taken up by the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL), which adopted the Insurance Compliance Self-Evaluative Privilege Model Act the following year.
Self-evaluation: it's a privilege: states are providing protection from lawsuits to insurers that audit themselves and correct any compliance errors voluntarily
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