Act No. 75

Public Acts of 2014

Approved by the Governor

March 28, 2014

Filed with the Secretary of State

March 28, 2014

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 28, 2014

STATE OF MICHIGAN

97TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2014

Introduced by Senators Jones, Warren, Caswell, Marleau, Robertson, Schuitmaker, Casperson, Rocca, Anderson, Colbeck, Jansen, Hopgood, Whitmer, Ananich, Hansen, Nofs, Emmons, Pappageorge, Bieda, Hildenbrand, Kowall, Moolenaar and Johnson

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 808

AN ACT to amend 1980 PA 350, entitled “An act to provide for the incorporation of nonprofit health care corporations; to provide their rights, powers, and immunities; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state officers relative to the exercise of those rights, powers, and immunities; to prescribe certain conditions for the transaction of business by those corporations in this state; to define the relationship of health care providers to nonprofit health care corporations and to specify their rights, powers, and immunities with respect thereto; to provide for a Michigan caring program; to provide for the regulation and supervision of nonprofit health care corporations by the commissioner of insurance; to prescribe powers and duties of certain other state officers with respect to the regulation and supervision of nonprofit health care corporations; to provide for the imposition of a regulatory fee; to regulate the merger or consolidation of certain corporations; to prescribe an expeditious and effective procedure for the maintenance and conduct of certain administrative appeals relative to provider class plans; to provide for certain administrative hearings relative to rates for health care benefits; to provide for the creation of and the powers and duties of certain nonprofit corporations for the purpose of receiving and administering funds for the public welfare; to provide for certain causes of action; to prescribe penalties and to provide civil fines for violations of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 410 (MCL 550.1410), as amended by 1998 PA 24.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 410. Any certificate issued by a health care corporation that provides that coverage of a dependent of the subscriber terminates at a specified age shall not terminate with respect to an unmarried child who is incapable of self-sustaining employment by reason of developmental disability or physical disability, if the following conditions are met:

(a) The child became incapable before 19 years of age and is chiefly dependent upon the subscriber for support and maintenance.

(b) Before the child turns 19 years of age, or within 31 days after that, the subscriber has submitted proof of the dependent’s incapacity to the corporation.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor