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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 643
BY SENATOR CORTEZ
GROUP INSURANCE. Changes definitions relating to portability, availability, and
renewability of health insurance. (8/1/12)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 22:1061(5)(e)(ii) and (iii), relative to portability, availability, and2
renewability of health insurance coverage; to provide for definitions of large and3
small employers for purposes of such coverage; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 22:1061(5)(e)(ii) and (iii) are hereby amended and reenacted to read6
as follows:7
ยง1061. Definitions 8
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(5)(e)(i)10
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(ii) "Large employer" means, in connection with a group health plan with12
respect to a calendar year and a plan year, an employer who employed an average of13
at least fifty-one one hundred one employees on business days during the preceding14
calendar year and who employs at least two employees on the first day of the plan15
year.16
(iii) "Small employer" means, in connection with a group health plan with17 SB NO. 643
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respect to a calendar year and a plan year, an employer who employed an average of1
at least one but not more than fifty one hundred employees on business days during2
the preceding calendar year and who employs at least one employee on the first day3
of the plan year.4
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Cheryl Horne.
DIGEST
Cortez (SB 643)
Present law provides that the requirements of present law relative to group health plans apply
to large employers who employed an average of at least 51 employees during the preceding
calendar year. Further provides that present law requirements apply to small employers who
employed between one and 50 employees during the preceding calendar year.
Proposed law amends the definitions of small employer and large employer. Defines "small
employer" as an employer who employed an average of not more than 100 employees in the
preceding calendar year. Defines "large employer" as an employer who employed an
average of at least 101 employees in the preceding calendar year.
Effective August 1, 2012.
(Amends R.S. 22:1061(5)(e)(ii) and (iii))