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To amend Chapter 43 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medicare supplemental insurance, so as to provide that insurers who offer medicare supplemental insurance policies in this state shall make available certain policies to persons under the age of 65 who, as a result of a disability, qualify for medicare under certain circumstances and conditions; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Chapter 43 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medicare supplemental insurance, is amended by adding a new Code Section 33_43_3.1 to read as follows:
"33_43_3.1.
(a) All issuers that deliver or issue for delivery in this state medicare supplemental policies shall make available to persons under the age of 65 years, who, due to a disability, are eligible for medicare, at least medicare supplemental policy plans B and I as such plans are presently or may hereafter be defined by the Commissioner of Insurance by rule or regulation.
(b) Such medicare supplemental policies shall be issued on the same terms and under the same conditions as medicare supplemental policies issued to persons who are 65 years of age or older.
(c) Issuers may elect to offer other medicare supplemental policy plans to persons under 65 years of age who are eligible for medicare as a result of a disability in addition to the plans specified in this Code section.
(d) Nothing contained in subsection (a) of this Code section shall require an issuer to offer a medicare supplemental policy to persons under 65 years of age who are eligible for medicare as a result of a disability if the issuer does not offer such policy to persons who are 65 years of age or older."