10.__Applicability.__This section applies to all small group health plan policies, contracts and certificates executed, delivered, issued for delivery, continued or renewed in this State on or after January 1, 2007.__For purposes of this section, all contracts are deemed to be renewed no later than the next yearly anniversary of the contract date.

Sec. B-13. 24-A MRSA §2850-B, sub-§2, ¶C, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 445, §30 and affected by §32, is amended to read:

C. "Large group market" means groups not subject to section 2736-C or 2808-B 2808-C.

Sec. B-14. 24-A MRSA §2850-B, sub-§2, ¶D, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 445, §30 and affected by §32, is amended to read:

D. "Small group market" means groups subject to section 2808-B 2808-C.

Sec. B-15. 24-A MRSA §2850-B, sub-§3, ¶G, as amended by PL 2003, c. 428, Pt. A, §1, is further amended to read:

G. When the carrier ceases offering a product and meets the following requirements:

(1) In the large group market:

(a) The carrier must provide notice to the policyholder and to the insureds at least 90 days before termination;

(b) The carrier must offer to each policyholder the option to purchase any other product currently being offered in the large group market; and

(c) In exercising the option to discontinue the product and in offering the option of coverage under division (b), the carrier must act uniformly without regard to the claims experience of the policyholders or the health status of the insureds or prospective insureds;

(2) In the small group market: