Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 33. INSURANCE · Chapter 60. SMALL BUSINESS EMPLOYEE CHOICE OF BENEFITS HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN ACT

33-60-2. Legislative intent.

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The General Assembly recognizes the need for employers and individuals in this state to have the opportunity to choose among group and individual health insurance plans that are more affordable and flexible than standard market policies of accident and sickness insurance and the need to increase the availability of health insurance coverage by authorizing the transaction of this type of plan or policy by accident and sickness insurers licensed to transact business in this state. This chapter shall require insurers which provide major medical coverage to offer policies that contain all state mandated health benefits as well as policies that contain the limited selection of state mandated health benefits set forth in Code Section 33-60-3; provided, however, that employees in group plans or individuals may choose pursuant to this chapter among new health insurance plans offered by insurers that either include all state mandated health benefits or include the limited state mandated health benefits set forth in Code Section 33-60-3.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 33-60-2, enacted by Ga. L. 2005, p. 1229, § 1/SB 174; Ga. L. 2019, p. 533, § 1-26/HB 99. The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, deleted ‘‘, on and after July 1, 2005,’’ following ‘‘however, that’’ in the proviso of the second sentence.

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2005, ‘‘Code Section 33-60-3’’ was substituted for ‘‘Code Section 33-59-3’’ twice in the last sentence of this Code section.

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