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348:(UCITA). The Act both affirms the intellectual-property rights of software developers and provides unprecedented consumer protections to purchasers of computer equipment. He sponsored legislation that created the Technology Development Corporation of Maryland, which promotes high-technology business development in Maryland. In 1999, Barve's bill to define the powers of corporations in making certain gifts passed both houses and was signed by the governor.
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of HMO providers, ensures that HMOs can't bar providers from sharing information if it jeopardizes patient care, and prohibits the use of financial incentives by HMOs that curtail and compromise care. He later co-sponsored the law that bars insurance companies based in
Maryland from using pre-existing conditions to deny coverage.
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Barve's work as a legislator over the length of his career has focused on a broad range of issues. In 1995, he successfully sponsored the first state bill in the nation to regulate HMOs, the
Maryland Health Access Act of 1995. The act allows health care patients to see doctors outside of the network
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would delete the tax credit on the property his wife had owned prior to their marriage once the couple declared his residence in
Gaithersburg to be their primary joint residence. While early reports were critical of Barve, the Associate Director of Assessments and Taxation for Maryland later told
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but ahead of four other challengers. As a result of his victory, Barve became the first Indian-American to serve in a state legislature. He took office in
January, 1991, and was appointed to the House Economic Matters Committee, which considers legislation related to business and labor policy and
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and debate over a number of significant environmental issues. Among the significant pieces of legislation Barve's committee worked on in the first year of the new term were a moratorium and public health study on fracking, a major reform to the state's stormwater protection fee, and debate over
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Maryland. In 2015, he was appointed to chair the House Environment and Transportation Committee, which oversees transportation, the environment, agriculture,
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After his first re-election in 1994, Barve rose in leadership with his appointment as chair of a subcommittee, first the Real
Property subcommittee in 1995 and 1996, and later the Science and Technology Subcommittee from 1997 to 2003. Also in 1995, he was elected to chair the Montgomery County
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reporters than nothing improper had taken place, and that such errors had occurred repeatedly in cases where individuals owned homes and then later married. Barve pledged that he would re-pay any money that the couple did not pay earlier due to the error.
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In 2008, it was reported that Barve and his wife were inappropriately receiving a
Homestead Property Tax Credit on two properties that they had owned separately prior to their marriage. Barve indicated that he had assumed
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ethics, and housing and real property law. He sponsored both the 1995 Health Access Act that place limits on HMOs for the first time and legislation that created the
Technology Development Corporation of Maryland.
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