California Health and Safety Code

§ 1357.503

HSC § 1357.503 Effective Jan 1, 2025Div. 2 · Ch. 2.2 · Art. 3.16

Statute text

(a)(1) Each plan shall fairly and affirmatively offer, market, and sell all of the plan’s small employer health care service plan contracts to all small employers in each service area in which the plan provides or arranges for the provision of health care services.

(2)Each plan shall make available to each small employer all small employer health care service plan contracts that the plan offers and sells to small employers or to associations that include small employers in this state.

(A)Health coverage through an association that is not related to employment shall be considered individual coverage. The status of each distinct member of an association shall determine whether that member’s association coverage is individual, small group, or large group health coverage.

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Legislative history

Amended (as amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 764, Sec. 2.3) by Stats. 2024, Ch. 374, Sec. 1. (AB 2072) Effective January 1, 2025. Repealed as of January 1, 2030, by its own provisions. See later operative version, as amended by Sec. 2 of Stats. 2024, Ch. 374.