Minnesota Session Laws - 1983, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1983 

                         CHAPTER 56--H.F.No. 576
           An act relating to insurance; health and accident; 
          providing coverage for adopted children from the date 
          of placement for adoption; proposing new law coded in 
          Minnesota Statutes, chapter 62A. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [62A.27] [COVERAGE FOR ADOPTED CHILDREN.] 
    No individual or group policy or plan of health and 
accident insurance regulated under this chapter or chapter 64A, 
subscriber contract regulated under chapter 62C, or health 
maintenance contract regulated under chapter 62D, providing 
coverage for more than one person may be issued or renewed in 
this state after August 1, 1983, unless the policy, plan, or 
contract covers adopted children of the insured, subscriber, or 
enrollee on the same basis as other dependents.  
    The coverage required by this section is effective from the 
date of placement for the purpose of adoption and continues 
unless the placement is disrupted prior to legal adoption and 
the child is removed from placement. 
    Approved April 22, 1983