STATEMENT TO

[First Reprint]

SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE, No. 2192

with Assembly Floor Amendments

(Proposed By Assemblyman FELICE)

ADOPTED: JUNE 26, 1997

      These amendments delete the exemption for a small employer carrier that has given notice of its intent to withdraw from the small employer health benefits market, from the prohibition to write new business in that market for five years after that withdrawal.

      The amendments make the substitute identical to Assembly, No. 3115.