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1399.834
. (a) All health care service plan contracts offered to a
child or on behalf of a child to a responsible party for a child
shall conform to the requirements of Sections 1365, 1366.3, and
1373.6, and shall be renewable at the option of the enrollee or
responsible party for a child on behalf of the enrollee except as
permitted to be canceled, rescinded, or not renewed pursuant to
Section 1365.
(b) Any plan that ceases to offer for sale new individual health
care service plan contracts pursuant to Section 1365 shall continue
to be governed by this article with respect to business conducted
under this article.
(c) Except as authorized under Section 1399.833, a plan that, as
of the effective date of this article, does not write new health care
service plan contracts for children in this state or that, after the
effective date of this article, ceases to write new health care
service plan contracts for children in this state shall be prohibited
from offering for sale new individual health care service plan
contracts in this state for a period of five years from the date of
notice to the director.