HB5457 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB096 19480 RPM 34872 b

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB5457

Introduced 2/5/2010, by Rep. Daniel V. Beiser

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

215 ILCS 5/356h

from Ch. 73, par. 968h

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Makes a technical change in a Section relating to coverage of adopted children.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning regulation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by changing Section 356h as follows:

(215 ILCS 5/356h) (from Ch. 73, par. 968h)

Sec. 356h. No individual or group policy of accident and and health insurance which covers the insured's immediate family or children, as well as covering the insured, shall exclude a child from coverage or limit coverage for a child solely because the child is an adopted child, or solely because the child does not reside with the insured. For purposes of this Section, a child who is in the custody of the insured, pursuant to an interim court order of adoption or, in the case of group insurance, placement of adoption, whichever comes first, vesting temporary care of the child in the insured, is an adopted child, regardless of whether a final order granting adoption is ultimately issued.

(Source: P.A. 91-549, eff. 8-14-99.)