48.44.210 - Group health care service plan contracts -- Coverage of dependent child not to terminate because of developmental disability or physical handicap. - Washington Statutes

Group health care service plan contracts — Coverage of dependent child not to terminate because of developmental disability or physical handicap.

A group health care service plan contract, delivered or issued for delivery in this state more than one hundred twenty days after August 11, 1969, which provides that coverage of a dependent child of an employee or other member of the covered group shall terminate upon attainment of the limiting age for dependent children specified in the contract shall also provide in substance that attainment of such limiting age shall not operate to terminate the coverage of such child while the child is and continues to be both (1) incapable of self-sustaining employment by reason of developmental disability or physical handicap and (2) chiefly dependent upon the employee or member for support and maintenance, provided proof of such incapacity and dependency is furnished to the health care service plan corporation by the employee or member within thirty-one days of the child's attainment of the limiting age and subsequently as may be required by the corporation, but not more frequently than annually after the two year period following the child's attainment of the limiting age.

[1977 ex.s. c 80 § 34; 1969 ex.s. c 128 § 2.]

Notes: Purpose -- Intent -- Severability -- 1977 ex.s. c 80: See notes following RCW 4.16.190.