2014 US Code
Title 42 - The Public Health and Welfare (Sections 1 - 18445)
Chapter 6A - Public Health Service (Sections 201 - 300mm-61)
Subchapter XXV - Requirements Relating to Health Insurance Coverage (Sections 300gg - 300gg-95)
Part A - Individual and Group Market Reforms (Sections 300gg - 300gg-28)
Subpart ii - Improving Coverage (Sections 300gg-11 - 300gg-19a)
Sec. 300gg-14 - Extension of dependent coverage
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 2, Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE CHAPTER 6A - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE SUBCHAPTER XXV - REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE Part A - Individual and Group Market Reforms subpart ii - improving coverage Sec. 300gg-14 - Extension of dependent coverage |
| Contains | section 300gg-14 |
| Date | 2014 |
| Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 5, 2015 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXVII, §2714, as added Pub. L. 111-148, title I, §1001(5), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 132; amended Pub. L. 111-152, title II, §2301(b), Mar. 30, 2010, 124 Stat. 1082. |
| Statutes at Large Reference | 124 Stat. 132, 1082 |
| Public and Private Law | Public Law 111-148, Public Law 111-152 |
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A group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage that provides dependent coverage of children shall continue to make such coverage available for an adult child until the child turns 26 years of age. Nothing in this section shall require a health plan or a health insurance issuer described in the preceding sentence to make coverage available for a child of a child receiving dependent coverage.
(b) RegulationsThe Secretary shall promulgate regulations to define the dependents to which coverage shall be made available under subsection (a).
(c) Rule of constructionNothing in this section shall be construed to modify the definition of "dependent" as used in title 26 with respect to the tax treatment of the cost of coverage.
(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXVII, §2714, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title I, §1001(5), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 132; amended Pub. L. 111–152, title II, §2301(b), Mar. 30, 2010, 124 Stat. 1082.)
PRIOR PROVISIONSA prior section 2714 of act July 1, 1944, was successively renumbered by subsequent acts and transferred, see section 238m of this title.
AMENDMENTS2010—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 111–152 struck out "(who is not married)" after "adult child".
EFFECTIVE DATESection effective for plan years beginning on or after the date that is 6 months after Mar. 23, 2010, see section 1004 of Pub. L. 111–148, set out as a note under section 300gg–11 of this title.
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