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2224 LAWS OF MARYLAND Ch. 421
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OF HEALTH INSURANCE COVERING GROUPS OF PERSONS AS DEFINED
BELOW, WITH OR WITHOUT ONE OR MORE MEMBERS OF THEIR
FAMILIES OR ONE OR MORE OF THEIR DEPENDENTS, OR COVERING
ONE OR MORE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILIES OR ONE OR MORE
DEPENDENTS OF SUCH GROUPS OF PERSONS, AND ISSUED UPON THE
FOLLOWING BASIS:
(7) IN ANY GROUP HEALTH INSURANCE POLICY HEREAFTER
ISSUED IN THIS STATE, NOTWITHSTANDING ANY LIMITING AGE
STATED IN THE POLICY ANY UNMARRIED CHILD COVERED UNDER
THE POLICY AS A DEPENDENT OF AN EMPLOYEE, MEMBER, OR
OTHER COVERED PERSON, AND WHO IS CHIEFLY DEPENDENT FOR
SUPPORT UPON THE EMPLOYEE, MEMBER, OR OTHER COVERED
PERSON, AND WHO, AT THE TIME OF REACHING THE LIMITING
AGE, IS INCAPABLE OF SELF-SUPPORT BECAUSE OF MENTAL OR
PHYSICAL INCAPACITY THAT COMMENCED PRIOR TO THE CHILD'S
ATTAINING THE LIMITING AGE, SHALL CONTINUE TO BE COVERED
UNDER THE POLICY WHILE REMAINING SO DEPENDENT, UNMARRIED,
AND MENTALLY OR PHYSICALLY INCAPACITATED, UNTIL SUCH TIME
AS THE INSURANCE ON THE EMPLOYEE, MEMBER, OR OTHER
COVERED PERSON UPON WHOM SUCH CHILD IS DEPENDENT
TERMINATES.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section
438(3) of Article 48A — Insurance Code, of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume and 1976
Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and reenacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:
Article 48A - Insurance Code
438.
No policy of health insurance shall be delivered or
issued for delivery to any person in this State unless it
otherwise complies with this article, and complies with
the following:
(3) It shall purport to insure only one person,
except that a policy may insure, originally or by
subsequent amendment, upon the application of an adult
member of a family, who shall be deemed the policyholder,
any two (2) or more eligible members of that family,
including husband, wife, dependent children or any
children under a specified age which shall not exceed
eighteen years and any other person dependent upon the
policyholder or any other person related to and resident
in the household of the insured. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY
LIMITING AGE STATED IN THE POLICY ANY UNMARRIED CHILD
COVERED UNDER THE POLICY AS A DEPENDENT OF A COVERED
PERSON WHO IS CHIEFLY DEPENDENT FOR SUPPORT UPON THE
COVERED PERSON, AND WHO, AT THE TIME OF REACHING THE
LIMITING AGE, IS INCAPABLE OF SELF-SUPPORT BECAUSE OF
MENTAL OR PHYSICAL INCAPACITY THAT COMMENCED PRIOR TO THE
CHILD'S ATTAINING THE LIMITING AGE, SHALL CONTINUE TO BE
COVERED UNDER THE POLICY WHILE REMAINING SO DEPENDENT,
UNMARRIED, AND MENTALLY OR PHYSICALLY INCAPACITATED,
UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE INSURANCE ON THE COVERED PERSON
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