SENATE DOCKET, NO. 402        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1220

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to fairness in health insurance..

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.Paragraph (d) of section 2 of chapter 32A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the first sentence the following sentence:-  This definition shall include the spouse of an employee, whether or not party to an agreement or judgment for separate support or maintenance, if there has not been a judgment absolute of divorce terminating the marriage.SECTION 2.  Subsection (a) of section 11A of said chapter 32A, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in line 2, the words “or of separate support”.SECTION 3.  Subsection (c) of said section 11A of said chapter 32A, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 28, 29 and 32, the words “or separated”, in each instance.