HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 455        FILED ON: 1/12/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2338

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act providing health insurance coverage to the surviving children of police officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Section 9C of Chapter 32B of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “spouse”, in line 6, the following words:— , provided, however, that dependents may continue such insurance notwithstanding the remarriage or death of said surviving spouse;.

SECTION 2. Section 9G of said chapter 32B, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “spouse”, in line 5, the following words:—, provided, however, that dependents under the age of nineteen may continue such insurance notwithstanding the remarriage or death of said surviving spouse;.