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Title 29 — Labor

Part 7 · Chapter 18 — Employee Retirement Income Security Program

§ 1185d. Additional market reforms

Statutory text

(a)

General rule

Except as provided in subsection (b)—

(1)

the provisions of part A of title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 300gg et seq.] (as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) shall apply to group health plans, and health insurance issuers providing health insurance coverage in connection with group health plans, as if included in this subpart; and

(2)

to the extent that any provision of this part conflicts with a provision of such part A with respect to group health plans, or health insurance issuers providing health insurance coverage in connection with group health plans, the provisions of such part A shall apply.

(b)

Exception

Notwithstanding subsection (a), the provisions of sections 2716 and 2718 of title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 300gg–16, 300gg–18] (as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) shall not apply with respect to self-insured group health plans, and the provisions of this part shall continue to apply to such plans as if such sections of the Public Health Service Act (as so amended) had not been enacted.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974

    Pub. L. 93–406 title I § 715 · 88 Stat. 829

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 1185d

    (Pub. L. 93–406, title I, § 715, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title I, § 1563(e), formerly § 1562(e), title X, § 10107(b)(1), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 270, 911.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 93–406, title I, § 715, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title I, § 1563(e), formerly § 1562(e), title X, § 10107(b)(1), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 270, 911.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Public Health Service Act, referred to in text, is act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, 58 Stat. 682. Part A of title XXVII of the Act is classified generally to part A (§ 300gg et seq.) of subchapter XXV of chapter 6A of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 201 of Title 42 and Tables.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 111–148, , 124 Stat. 119. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 18001 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and Tables.

Codification

Pub. L. 111–148, which directed amendment of subpart B of part 7 of “subtitle A” of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 by adding this section at the end, was executed by adding this section at the end of this subpart, which is subpart B of part 7 of subtitle B of title I of the Act, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.

Credits

(Pub. L. 93–406, title I, § 715, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title I, § 1563(e), formerly § 1562(e), title X, § 10107(b)(1), , 124 Stat. 270, 911.)

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