Insurance Committee
Filed: 3/9/2010
 
 

 




 

 		












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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 6066 




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    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 6066, AS AMENDED, by 
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replacing everything after the enacting clause with the 
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following:

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



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



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    Sec. 356h. 
No individual or group policy of accident and

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and health
insurance which covers the insured's immediate 
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family or children, as well
as covering the insured, shall 
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exclude a child from coverage or limit
coverage for a child 
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solely because the child is an adopted child, or
solely because 
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the child does not reside with the insured. For purposes of

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this Section, a child who is in the custody of the insured, 
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pursuant to an
interim court order of adoption or, in the case 
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of group insurance, placement
of adoption, whichever comes 
 


 






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first, vesting temporary care of the child in
the
insured, is 
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an adopted child, regardless of whether a final order granting

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adoption is ultimately issued.
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(Source: P.A. 91-549, eff. 8-14-99.)".