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2002 SESSION

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05/10

SENATE BILL 56

COMMITTEE: Insurance

ANALYSIS

This bill allows the commissioner of the department of insurance to waive the 5-year period in which a health carrier is prohibited from offering health coverage in a market where the carrier previously discontinued service.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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01-0947

05/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Two

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1:1 Portability, Availability, and Renewability of Health Coverage; Exclusion from Discontinued Market; Waiver Permitted. Amend RSA 420-G:6, VII (b) to read as follows:

(b) The health carrier may not provide health coverage in such discontinued market or markets during the 5-year period beginning on the date of the discontinuation of the last health coverage not so renewed except that the commissioner may waive or otherwise reduce the 5-year period in which the health carrier may not provide coverage in the discontinued market for good cause shown.

1:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

(Approved: January 30, 2002)

(Effective Date: March 31, 2002)