THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY SHAPIRO, MATZIE, LONGIETTI, BRADFORD, BRIGGS, BURNS, CALTAGIRONE, CARROLL, COHEN, D. COSTA, DeLUCA, DePASQUALE, FABRIZIO, FREEMAN, GIBBONS, GRUCELA, HARKINS, JOSEPHS, KOTIK, MAHONEY, MANDERINO, MANN, McGEEHAN, McILVAINE SMITH, MICOZZIE, MILLER, MURPHY, MURT, MUSTIO, M. O'BRIEN, PASHINSKI, PICKETT, READSHAW, REED, SIPTROTH AND WHEATLEY, APRIL 7, 2010

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INSURANCE, APRIL 7, 2010  

AN ACT

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

act relating to insurance; amending, revising, and

consolidating the law providing for the incorporation of

insurance companies, and the regulation, supervision, and

protection of home and foreign insurance companies, Lloyds

associations, reciprocal and inter-insurance exchanges, and

fire insurance rating bureaus, and the regulation and

supervision of insurance carried by such companies,

associations, and exchanges, including insurance carried by

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

repealing existing laws," further providing for Mini-COBRA

small employer group health policies.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 635.4(a)(6)(i)(A) of the act of May 17,

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

1921, added June 10, 2009 (P.L.5, No.2), is amended to read:

Section 635.4.  Mini-COBRA Small Employer Group Health

Policies.--(a)  A group policy in effect or delivered or issued

for delivery in this Commonwealth on or after the effective date

of this section by an insurer which insures employes and their

eligible dependents for hospital, surgical or major medical

insurance shall provide that covered employes, or eligible

dependents whose coverage under the group policy would otherwise

terminate because of a qualifying event, shall be entitled to

continue their hospital, surgical or major medical coverage

under that group policy subject to the following terms and

conditions:

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(6)  (i)  Continuation of coverage under the group policy for

any covered employe or eligible dependent shall terminate upon

failure to satisfy paragraph (2) or, if earlier, at the first to

occur of the following:

(A)  the date [nine] fifteen months after the date the

covered employe's or eligible dependent's coverage under the

group policy would have terminated because of a qualifying

event;

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Section 2.  This act shall apply to provide health coverage

that begins on or after February 17, 2009.

Section 3.  This act shall take effect immediately.