New Jersey Statutes 17B:27A-4. Offering of individual health benefits required by issuer of small employer health benefits plans
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 17B:27A-4
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
b. A carrier shall offer to an eligible person a choice of at least three individual health benefits plans established by the board pursuant to section 6 of P.L.1992, c.161 (C. 17B:27A-7).
c. (1) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2019, c.359).
(2) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2019, c.359).
(3) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2019, c.359).
(4) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2019, c.359).
(5) The provisions of section 13 of P.L.1985, c.236 (C. 17:48E-13), N.J.S.17B:26-1, and section 8 of P.L.1973, c.337 (C. 26:2J-8) with respect to the filing of policy forms shall not apply to health plans issued on or after the effective date of P.L.1992, c.161 (C. 17B:27A-2 et al.).
(6) The provisions of section 27 of P.L.1985, c.236 (C. 17:48E-27) and section 7 of P.L.1988, c.71 (C. 17:48E-27.1) with respect to rate filings shall not apply to individual health plans issued on or after the effective date of P.L.1992, c.161 (C. 17B:27A-2 et al.).
d. Every group conversion contract or policy issued after the effective date of P.L.1992, c.161 (C. 17B:27A-2 et al.) shall be issued pursuant to this section; except that this requirement shall not apply to any group conversion contract or policy in which a portion of the premium is chargeable to, or subsidized by, the group policy from which the conversion is made.
e. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2008, c.38).
f. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2019, c.359).
L.1992, c.161, s.3; amended 1993, c.164, s.3; 1994, c.102, s.1; 2008, c.38, s.11; 2019, c.359, s.2; 2023, c.194, s.1.