Bill Text: MI HB4621 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Insurance: health insurers; coverage for dependents under the age of 26; require. Amends sec. 3403 of 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.3403).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 37-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-10-19 - Assigned Pa 158'23 [HB4621 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB4621-Chaptered.html
Act No. 158
Public Acts of 2023
Approved by the Governor
October 19, 2023
Filed with the Secretary of State
October 19, 2023
EFFECTIVE DATE: Sine Die
(91st day after final adjournment of the 2023 Regular Session
state of michigan
102nd Legislature
Regular session of 2023
Introduced by Reps. Fitzgerald, Rogers, Miller, Brabec, Neeley, O’Neal, Byrnes, Young, Dievendorf, Rheingans, Arbit, Conlin, Grant, Price, Wilson, McKinney, Steckloff, MacDonell, Koleszar, Morgan, Martus, Skaggs, Scott, Hope, Brixie, Brenda Carter, Tyrone Carter, Hood, Paiz, Haadsma, Farhat, Hill, McFall, Morse, Puri, Breen and Aiyash
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4621
AN ACT to amend 1956 PA 218,
entitled “An act to revise, consolidate, and classify the laws relating to the
insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation or formation of
domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of
foreign and alien companies and associations; to provide their rights, powers,
and immunities and to prescribe the conditions on which companies and
associations organized, existing, or authorized under this act may exercise
their powers; to provide the rights, powers, and immunities and to prescribe
the conditions on which other persons, firms, corporations, associations, risk
retention groups, and purchasing groups engaged in an insurance or surety
business may exercise their powers; to provide for the imposition of a
privilege fee on domestic insurance companies and associations and the state
accident fund; to provide for the imposition of a tax on the business of
foreign and alien companies and associations; to provide for the imposition of
a tax on risk retention groups and purchasing groups; to provide for the
imposition of a tax on the business of surplus line agents; to provide for the
imposition of regulatory fees on certain insurers; to provide for assessment
fees on certain health maintenance organizations; to modify tort liability arising
out of certain accidents; to provide for limited actions with respect to that
modified tort liability and to prescribe certain procedures for maintaining
those actions; to require security for losses arising out of certain accidents;
to provide for the continued availability and affordability of automobile
insurance and homeowners insurance in this state and to facilitate the purchase
of that insurance by all residents of this state at fair and reasonable rates;
to provide for certain reporting with respect to insurance and with respect to
certain claims against uninsured or self-insured persons; to prescribe duties
for certain state departments and officers with respect to that reporting; to
provide for certain assessments; to establish and continue certain state
insurance funds; to modify and clarify the status, rights, powers, duties, and
operations of the nonprofit malpractice insurance fund; to provide for the
departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business
within this state; to provide for regulation over worker’s compensation
self-insurers; to provide for the conservation, rehabilitation, or liquidation
of unsound or insolvent insurers; to provide for the protection of
policyholders, claimants, and creditors of unsound or insolvent insurers; to
provide for associations of insurers to protect policyholders and claimants in
the event of insurer insolvencies; to prescribe educational requirements for
insurance agents and solicitors; to provide for the regulation of multiple employer
welfare arrangements; to create an automobile theft prevention authority to
reduce the number of automobile thefts in this state; to prescribe the powers
and duties of the automobile theft prevention authority; to provide certain
powers and duties upon certain officials, departments, and authorities of this
state; to provide for an appropriation; to repeal acts and parts of acts; and
to provide penalties for the violation of this act,” by amending section 3403
(MCL 500.3403), as amended by 2016 PA 276.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 3403. (1) An insurer that delivers, issues for delivery, or renews in this state a health insurance policy that makes dependent coverage available under the health insurance policy shall do all of the following:
(a) Make available dependent coverage, at the option of the policyholder, until the dependent has attained 26 years of age.
(b) Provide the same health insurance benefits to a dependent child that are available to any other covered dependent.
(c) Provide health insurance benefits to a dependent child at the same rate or premium applicable to any other covered dependent.
(d) Include both of the following provisions in the health insurance policy:
(i) That the health insurance benefits applicable for children are payable with respect to a newly born child of the insured from the moment of birth.
(ii) That the coverage for newly born children consists of coverage of injury or sickness including the necessary care and treatment of medically diagnosed congenital defects and birth abnormalities.
(2) A health insurance policy that offers dependent coverage shall not deny enrollment to an insured’s child on any of the following grounds:
(a) The child was born out of wedlock.
(b) The child is not claimed as a dependent on the insured’s federal income tax return.
(c) The child does not reside with the insured or in the insurer’s service area.
(3) This section does not require an insurer or plan to make coverage available for a child of a child receiving dependent coverage.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor
