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| | | An Act To Encourage Agricultural Cooperative Associations |
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| | | To Provide Group Health Plans |
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| | | Emergency preamble. Whereas, Acts of the Legislature do not become | | effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as | | emergencies; and |
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| | | Whereas, group health plans sponsored by agricultural | | associations located outside of this State provide health | | insurance to enrollees living in this State; and |
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| | | Whereas, changes to the law are necessary to prevent enrollees | | living in this State from losing their health insurance coverage; | | and |
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| | | Whereas, this legislation clarifies the grievance procedure that | | must be available to enrollees in this State who have coverage | | through out-of-state agricultural cooperative association group | | health plans; and |
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| | | Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create | | an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and | | require the following legislation as immediately necessary for | | the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, | | therefore, |
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| | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | | Sec. 1. 24-A MRSA §4303, sub-§4, ¶D is enacted to read: |
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| | | D.__Notwithstanding this subsection, a group health plan | | sponsored by an agricultural cooperative association located |
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