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HRS §432:1-622

Health plans must cover adult children until age 26

Health plans that cover children must keep covering an adult child until that child turns 26. Plans do not have to cover the child of that adult child. This applies to individual and group hospital or medical service plans and mutual benefit societies.

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The statute, as written — Extension of dependent coverage

Each individual or group hospital or medical service plan contract and each mutual benefit society offering individual or group hospital or medical service plan contracts that provide dependent coverage of children shall continue to make that coverage available for an adult child until the child turns twenty-six years of age. Nothing in this section shall require a plan contract to make coverage available for a child of a child receiving dependent coverage.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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