Bill Text: PA HB1062 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for issuance of group accident and sickness insurance.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 50-30)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-24 - Referred to INSURANCE [HB1062 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB1062-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1244
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1062 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY DePASQUALE, BAKER, BARRAR, BELFANTI, BISHOP, BOBACK, BOYD, BRIGGS, BURNS, BUXTON, CALTAGIRONE, CARROLL, CLYMER, D. COSTA, DONATUCCI, EVERETT, FLECK, GEIST, GEORGE, GIBBONS, GILLESPIE, GOODMAN, GROVE, GRUCELA, HALUSKA, HARKINS, HARPER, HESS, HORNAMAN, HUTCHINSON, KAUFFMAN, KORTZ, KULA, LONGIETTI, MAHONEY, MANDERINO, MANN, MARSHALL, McCALL, McGEEHAN, MELIO, MILLER, MILNE, MOUL, MUNDY, MURPHY, MURT, MUSTIO, M. O'BRIEN, PALLONE, PASHINSKI, PAYNE, PAYTON, PETRARCA, PHILLIPS, READSHAW, REICHLEY, ROAE, SABATINA, SANTONI, SCAVELLO, SEIP, SIPTROTH, K. SMITH, M. SMITH, STABACK, STURLA, SWANGER, J. TAYLOR, R. TAYLOR, VULAKOVICH, WAGNER, WANSACZ, WHEATLEY, WHITE, YOUNGBLOOD AND YUDICHAK, MARCH 24, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INSURANCE, MARCH 24, 2009
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 issuance of
group accident and sickness insurance.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 621.2(a) of the act of May 17, 1921
(P.L.682, No.284), known as The Insurance Company Law of 1921,
is amended by adding a clause to read:
Section 621.2. Group Accident and Sickness Insurance.--(a)
Group accident and sickness insurance is hereby declared to be
that form of accident and sickness insurance covering groups of
persons defined in this section 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 or persons and issued upon the
following basis:
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(2.1) (i) Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (2), a
group of two or more employers may join for the purpose of
obtaining group insurance.
(ii) The Insurance Department shall establish group
certification requirements and promulgate necessary regulations.
(iii) As used in this clause:
"Employer" means an employer that employs at least two but
not more than fifty employes.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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