Bill Text: PA HB1095 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Further providing for health insurance coverage for certain children of insured parents.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-17 - Referred to INSURANCE [HB1095 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1095-Introduced.html

  

 

    

PRINTER'S NO.  1192

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE BILL

 

No.

1095

Session of

2011

  

  

INTRODUCED BY LONGIETTI, CALTAGIRONE, CARROLL, COHEN, D. COSTA, DALEY, DeLUCA, DONATUCCI, GIBBONS, GOODMAN, HARKINS, JOSEPHS, KULA, McGEEHAN, MURT, M. O'BRIEN, READSHAW, SANTONI, SWANGER, VULAKOVICH AND WHITE, MARCH 17, 2011

  

  

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INSURANCE, MARCH 17, 2011  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), entitled "An

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act relating to insurance; amending, revising, and

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consolidating the law providing for the incorporation of

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insurance companies, and the regulation, supervision, and

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protection of home and foreign insurance companies, Lloyds

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associations, reciprocal and inter-insurance exchanges, and

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fire insurance rating bureaus, and the regulation and

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supervision of insurance carried by such companies,

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associations, and exchanges, including insurance carried by

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the State Workmen's Insurance Fund; providing penalties; and

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repealing existing laws," further providing for health

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insurance coverage for certain children of insured parents.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 617.1(A) of the act of May 17, 1921

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(P.L.682, No.284), known as The Insurance Company Law of 1921,

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added June 10, 2009 (P.L.42, No.4), is amended to read:

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Section 617.1.  Health Insurance Coverage for Certain

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Children of Insured Parents.--(A)  An insurer that issues,

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delivers, executes or renews group health care insurance in this

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Commonwealth, under which coverage of a child would otherwise

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terminate at a specified age, shall, at the option of the

 


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[policyholder] policyholder's insured employe, provide coverage

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to a child of an insured employe beyond that specified age, up

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through and including the age of 29, at the insured employe's

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expense, and provided that the child meet all of the following

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requirements:

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(1)  Is not married.

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(2)  Has no dependents.

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(3)  Is a resident of this Commonwealth or is enrolled as a

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full-time student at an institution of higher education.

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(4)  Is not provided coverage as a named subscriber, insured,

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enrollee or covered person under any other group or individual

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health insurance policy or enrolled in or entitled to benefits

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under any government health care benefits program, including

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benefits under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act (49 Stat.

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620, 42 U.S.C. § 1395 et seq.).

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Section 2.  The amendment of section 617.1 of the act shall

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apply to new contracts and contract renewals occurring 60 days

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after the effective date of this act.

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Section 3.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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