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HRS §432D-31

Health plans must cover adult children until age 26

Health insurance plans that cover children must keep covering an adult child until that child turns 26. The plan does not have to cover the child's own children. This rule applies to individual and group plans, including HMOs.

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The statute, as written — Extension of dependent coverage

Each individual or group policy, contract, plan, or agreement and each health maintenance organization offering individual or group policies, contracts, plans, or agreements that provides 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 policy, contract, plan, or agreement 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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