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[CITE: 42USC300bb-1]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
 SUBCHAPTER XX--REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN GROUP HEALTH PLANS FOR CERTAIN 
                        STATE AND LOCAL EMPLOYEES
 
Sec. 300bb-1. State and local governmental group health plans 
        must provide continuation coverage to certain individuals
        

(a) In general

    In accordance with regulations which the Secretary shall prescribe, 
each group health plan that is maintained by any State that receives 
funds under this chapter, by any political subdivision of such a State, 
or by any agency or instrumentality of such a State or political 
subdivision, shall provide, in accordance with this subchapter, that 
each qualified beneficiary who would lose coverage under the plan as a 
result of a qualifying event is entitled, under the plan, to elect, 
within the election period, continuation coverage under the plan.

(b) Exception for certain plans

    Subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to--
        (1) any group health plan for any calendar year if all employers 
    maintaining such plan normally employed fewer than 20 employees on a 
    typical business day during the preceding calendar year, or
        (2) any group health plan maintained for employees by the 
    government of the District of Columbia or any territory or 
    possession of the United States or any agency or instrumentality.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXII, Sec. 2201, as added Pub. L. 99-272, 
title X, Sec. 10003(a), Apr. 7, 1986, 100 Stat. 232; amended Pub. L. 
101-239, title VI, Sec. 6801(a)(1), Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2296.)


                               Amendments

    1989--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 101-239 struck out at end ``Under 
regulations, rules similar to the rules of subsections (a) and (b) of 
section 52 of title 26 (relating to employers under common control) 
shall apply for purposes of paragraph (1).''


                    Effective Date of 1989 Amendment

    Section 6801(a)(2) of Pub. L. 101-239 provided that: ``The amendment 
made by paragraph (1) [amending this section] shall apply to years 
beginning after December 31, 1986.''


                             Effective Date

    Section 10003(b) of Pub. L. 99-272 provided that:
    ``(1) General rule.--The amendments made by this section [enacting 
this subchapter] shall apply to plan years beginning on or after July 1, 
1986.
    ``(2) Special rule for collective bargaining agreements.--In the 
case of a group health plan maintained pursuant to one or more 
collective bargaining agreements between employee representatives and 
one or more employers ratified before the date of the enactment of this 
Act [Apr. 7, 1986], the amendments made by this section shall not apply 
to plan years beginning before the later of--
        ``(A) the date on which the last of the collective bargaining 
    agreements relating to the plan terminates (determined without 
    regard to any extension thereof agreed to after the date of the 
    enactment of this Act), or
        ``(B) January 1, 1987.
For purposes of subparagraph (A), any plan amendment made pursuant to a 
collective bargaining agreement relating to the plan which amends the 
plan solely to conform to any requirement added by this section shall 
not be treated as a termination of such collective bargaining 
agreement.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 300bb-2 of this title.
