Bill Text: TX HB2172 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of certain children under group life insurance policies.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB2172 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2172-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2172 |
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relating to the eligibility of certain children under group life | ||
insurance policies. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1131.802, Insurance Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1131.802. EXTENSION OF GROUP LIFE INSURANCE TO SPOUSES | ||
AND CHILDREN; ELIGIBLE CHILDREN. Insurance under a group life | ||
insurance policy may be extended to cover: | ||
(1) the spouse of each individual eligible to be | ||
insured under the policy; | ||
(2) a natural or adopted child of each individual | ||
eligible to be insured under the policy if the child is: | ||
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or an older age stated in the policy; or | ||
(B) physically or mentally disabled and under the | ||
parents' supervision; or | ||
(3) a natural or adopted grandchild of each individual | ||
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SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an insurance policy that is delivered, issued for delivery, | ||
renewed, or amended on or after January 1, 2012. A policy that is | ||
delivered, issued for delivery, renewed, or amended before January | ||
1, 2012, is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the | ||
effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for | ||
that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2172 was passed by the House on May 5, | ||
2011, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 2172 on May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 2, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2172 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 24, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |