The purpose of the Small Group Rate and Renewability Act is to promote the continuing availability of health insurance coverage to small employers, to prevent abusive rating practices, to require disclosure of rating practices to purchasers, to establish rules for continuity of coverage for employers and covered individuals and to improve the efficiency and fairness of the small group health insurance marketplace. History: Laws 1991, ch. 153, § 2. Applicability. — Laws 1991, ch. 153, § 11 made the provisions of the act applicable to each health benefit plan for a small employer under the Small Group Rate and Renewability Act that is delivered, issued for delivery, renewed or continued in this state after July 1, 1991 and provided that the date a plan is continued or renewed is the first rating period that commences after June 14, 1991.
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