Bill Text: MI HB5348 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Mental health; developmental disability; reference to mentally retarded and mental retardation; change to developmental disability. Amends sec. 2264 of 1956 PA 218 (MCL 500.2264).
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 9-5)
Status: (Passed) 2014-04-17 - Assigned Pa 67'14 With Immediate Effect [HB5348 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HB5348-Chaptered.html
Act No. 67
Public Acts of 2014
Approved by the Governor
March 28, 2014
Filed with the Secretary of State
March 28, 2014
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 28, 2014
STATE OF MICHIGAN
97TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2014
Introduced by Reps. Leonard, Cavanagh, Lori, Kelly, Schor, Singh, Poleski, Graves, O’Brien, Slavens, Cotter, Foster, Geiss, Lyons and Tlaib
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5348
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 2264 (MCL 500.2264), as amended by 1998 PA 26.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 2264. Any contract or insurance policy delivered on or after July 12, 1966 in this state providing for hospital care or reimbursement for the care of the policyholders and dependents that provides for termination of dependent coverage at a specified age does not apply to an unmarried child of the policyholder who is incapable of self-support due to developmental disability or physical disability, and who is dependent upon the policyholder for support and maintenance, if the policyholder submits satisfactory proof of the dependent’s incapacity to the insurance carrier not later than 31 days after the attainment of the age limit by the dependent child.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
