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Session of 1999
          HOUSE BILL No. 2067           By Representative Gregory           1-21          

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  9             AN  ACT concerning insurance; limitation on payments under certain
10             circumstances.
11      
12       Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
13             Section  1. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, from and
14       after the effective date of this act, no individual or group health insurance
15       policy, medical service plan, contract, hospital and medical service cor-
16       poration contract, fraternal benefit society or health maintenance organ-
17       ization which provides coverage for accident and health services and
18       which is delivered, issued for delivery, amended or renewed on or after
19       the effective date of this act shall be required to provide coverage for any
20       individual who is at least 18 years of age and who:
21             (1) Has been convicted of a crime; and
22             (2) is being incarcerated in any jail or corrections institution for a
23       period of 30 or more consecutive days.
24             (b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall affect in any way the coverage
25       provided for any family member of the enrollee, insured or subscriber by
26       any individual or group health insurance policy, medical service plan,
27       contract, hospital and medical service corporation contract, fraternal ben-
28       efit society or health maintenance organization which provides coverage
29       for accident and health services.
30             (c) No individual or group health insurance policy, medical service
31       plan, contract, hospital and medical service corporation contract, fraternal
32       benefit society or health maintenance organization which provides cov-
33       erage for accident and health services and which is delivered, issued for
34       delivery, amended or renewed on or after the effective date of this act
35       shall be required to provide coverage for accident and health services to
36       any person who has been convicted of a crime and incarcerated as de-
37       scribed in subsection (a) of this section and subsequently released from
38       custody.
39        Sec.  2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after Jan-
40       uary 1, 2000 and its publication in the statute book.