Tex. Insurance Code § 1251.154

This is the official text of Tex. Insurance Code § 1251.154, part of Texas’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.

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§ 1251.154. COVERAGE FOR ADOPTED CHILDREN.

Official statutory text

A group policy or contract of insurance for hospital, surgical, or medical expenses incurred as a result of accident or sickness, including a group contract issued by a group hospital service corporation, that provides coverage for the immediate family or a child of an insured may not exclude from coverage or limit coverage of a child of the insured solely because the child is adopted. A child is considered to be the child of an insured if the insured is a party to a suit in which the insured seeks to adopt the child.

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