Pennsylvania Act 2017-58 — INSURANCE COMPANY LAW OF 1921 - COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE FOR UNINSURED CHILDREN AND EXPIRATION

Act text

Session of 2017

No. 2017-58

HB 1388

AN ACT

Amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), entitled "An act relating to insurance; amending, revising, and consolidating the law providing for the incorporation of insurance companies, and the regulation, supervision, and protection of home and foreign insurance companies, Lloyds associations, reciprocal and inter-insurance exchanges, and fire insurance rating bureaus, and the regulation and supervision of insurance carried by such companies, associations, and exchanges, including insurance carried by the State Workmen's Insurance Fund; providing penalties; and repealing existing laws," in comprehensive health care for uninsured children, further providing for expiration.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 2309-A of the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), known as The Insurance Company Law of 1921, added December 20, 2015 (P.L.461, No.84), is amended to read:

Section 2309-A. Expiration.

(a) General rule.--[This] Subject to subsection (a.1), this article shall expire on the earlier of:

(1) December 31, [2017] 2019 ; or

(2) ninety days after the date on which Federal funding for the program ceases to be available.

(a.1) Exception.--If Federal law authorizes funding for the program for a period that extends beyond December 31, 2019, this article shall expire under subsection (a)(2).

(b) Notice.--If [the chapter] this article expires under subsection (a)(2), as determined by the department, the department shall transmit notice to the Legislative Reference Bureau for publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.

Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

APPROVED--The 15th day of December, A.D. 2017.

TOM WOLF