{"data":{"id":"us-la/rs-22-36","jurisdiction":"us-la","citation":"RS 22:36","heading":"Discrimination prohibited; health insurance coverage; fire employees; applicability","body":"A. A health insurance issuer shall not refuse to accept for enrollment any fire employee formerly employed by a municipality, parish, or fire protection district with which the health insurance issuer maintains a policy of group health insurance coverage, where such fire employee is no longer employed by the municipality, parish, or fire protection district as a result of retirement, and where such fire employee is not yet eligible for Medicare.\nB. A health insurance issuer shall not discriminate between an active fire employee and retired fire employee on the basis of an active or retired status.\nC.(1) This Section does not require a health insurance issuer to provide coverage for a retired fire employee under circumstances in which an active fire employee could lawfully be denied coverage nor requires a health insurance issuer to offer terms, rates, or benefits to a retired fire employee that it is not required to offer to an active fire employee.\n(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section, this Section shall not be construed to require a municipality, parish, or fire protection district to offer health insurance coverage to early retiree fire employees, nor prohibit a municipality, parish, or fire protection district from offering health insurance coverage to only active fire employees, nor prohibit a health insurance issuer from offering coverage that complies with such eligibility decision of the municipality, parish, or fire protection district.\nD. As used in this Section, the term \"fire employee\" includes a retired employee of a fire protection district or of a municipal or parish fire department.","path":["SUBPART C-1. PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGERS§1863. Definitions"],"source_url":"https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=1296492","current_through":"2025 First Extraordinary Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:53:52Z","sha256":"a490b1f4111df891b4bbacd25644b401e767d113847a788ba199d58deab2fb75","source_id":"us-la","stale":false,"prev":"us-la/rs-22-35","next":"us-la/rs-22-37"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}