STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2nd Session of the 53rd Legislature (2012)

HOUSE BILL 2911	By:	Hamilton

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to insurance; requiring health insurance providers to provide coverage for certain children; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 6058B of Title 36, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
Any insurance provider advertising, offering or selling a health insurance policy that covers only a child or children in the state shall offer the policy for any child under the age of eighteen (18) years.  If the insurance provider does not offer or sell health insurance policies for children under the age of one (1) year, the insurance provider shall not be allowed to advertise, offer or sell any insurance policies for children in the state.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2012.

53-2-8494	SDR	01/13/12