HCS/HB 231 - This act requires group health insurance policies issued by health carriers to employers not covered by the federal COBRA law (employers with 2 to 19 employees) to provide terminated employees with group insurance coverage continuation rights in the same manner as provided by the federal COBRA law (Section 376.428). A similar provision may be found in SB 415 and SB 547 (2009).
The act contains an emergency clause.
STEPHEN WITTE