CA Health & Safety Code Section 1399.825

As used in this article:

(a)

“Child” means any individual under 19 years of age.

(b)

“Individual grandfathered plan coverage” means health care coverage in which an individual was enrolled on March 23, 2010, consistent with Section 1251 of PPACA and any rules or regulations adopted pursuant to that law.

(c)

“Initial open enrollment period” means the open enrollment period beginning on January 1, 2011, and ending 60 days thereafter.

(d)

“Late enrollee” means a child without coverage who did not enroll in a health care service plan contract during an open enrollment period because of any of the following:

(1)

The child lost dependent coverage due to termination or change in employment status of the child or the person through whom the child was covered; cessation of an employer’s contribution toward an employee or dependent’s coverage; death of the person through whom the child was covered as a dependent; legal separation; divorce; loss of coverage under the Healthy Families Program, the Access for Infants and Mothers Program, or the Medi-Cal program; or adoption of the child.

(2)

The child became a resident of California during a month that was not the child’s birth month.

(3)

The child is born as a resident of California and did not enroll in the month of birth.

(4)

The child is mandated to be covered pursuant to a valid state or federal court order.

(e)

“Open enrollment period” means the annual open enrollment period, subsequent to the initial open enrollment period, applicable to each individual child that is the month of the child’s birth date.

(f)

“PPACA” means the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148), as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-152), and any subsequent rules or regulations issued pursuant to that law.

(g)

“Preexisting condition exclusion” means, with respect to coverage, a limitation or exclusion of benefits relating to a condition based on the fact that the condition was present before the date of enrollment of the coverage, whether or not any medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was recommended or received before that date.

(h)

“Responsible party for a child” means an adult having custody of the child or with responsibility for the financial needs of the child, including the responsibility to provide health care coverage.

(i)

“Standard risk rate” means the lowest rate that can be offered for a child with the same benefit plan, effective date, age, geographic region, and family status.