Sec. 846.255. DECLINING COVERAGE. (a) A multiple employer welfare arrangement shall obtain a written waiver from each employee who meets the participation criteria and declines coverage under a health plan offered to an employer. The waiver must ensure that the employee was not induced or pressured to decline coverage because of the employee's health status related factors.
(b) A multiple employer welfare arrangement may not provide coverage to an employer or the employees of an employer if the arrangement or an agent for the arrangement knows that the employer has induced or pressured an employee who meets the participation criteria or a dependent of the employee to decline coverage because of that individual's health status related factors.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2003.
Structure Texas Statutes
Title 6 - Organization of Insurers and Related Entities
Subtitle C - Life, Health, and Accident Insurers and Related Entities
Chapter 846 - Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements
Subchapter F. Participation in Coverage
Section 846.251. Participation Criteria
Section 846.252. Coverage Requirements
Section 846.253. Prohibition on Exclusion of Eligible Employee or Dependent
Section 846.254. Written Notice to Employees Covered
Section 846.255. Declining Coverage
Section 846.256. Minimum Contribution or Participation Requirements
Section 846.257. Enrollment; Waiting Period
Section 846.258. Coverage for Newborn Children