Chapter 579.     AN    ACT    RELATIVE    TO    THE    APPLICATION    OF CERTAIN INSURANCE BENEFITS.

Be it enacted, etc.. as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 110 of chapter 175 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1984 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out, in line 194, the word "in" and inserting in place thereof the words:-within or without the commonwealth and which covers residents of.

SECTION 2.   The first paragraph of section 110D of said chapter 175, as so appearing, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence:-The  provisions of this paragraph shall apply to any policy issued or renewed within or without the commonwealth and which covers residents of the commonwealth.

SECTION 3. The first paragraph of section 110G of said chapter 175, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after the word "plan", in line 2, the words:- issued or delivered within or without the commonwealth and which covers residents of the commonwealth.

SECTION 4. The second paragraph of said section HOG of said chapter 175, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:- In addition, whenever such group hospital, surgical, medical insurance plan or employer's plan covering health benefits is issued or subsequently renewed within or without the commonwealth by agreement between the insurer and the policyholder and covers residents of the commonwealth, during the period this provision is effective, such plan shall include coverage such that when a member of such group plan becomes ineligible for continued participation in such plan because he is an employee whose employment is terminated due to a plant closing or covered partial closing, as those terms are defined in section seventy-one A of chapter one hundred and fifty-one A, the coverage originally provided by such plan for the member and his dependents shall continue as provided herein, for a period of ninety days from the date of ineligibility or until such member and his dependents become eligible for benefits under another group plan, whichever comes first.

SECTION 5. Subsection (a) of section 1101 of said chapter 175, as so appearing, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence:- The provision of this section shall apply to any policy issued or renewed within or without the commonwealth and which covers residents of the commonwealth.

Approved December 9, 1986.