All health maintenance organizations meeting the requirements of subsection (b.1) of Code Section 33-21-3 shall not be subject to regulation by the commissioner of community health.Upon the Commissioner's determination that a health maintenance organization no longer meets the requirements of subsection (b.1) of Code Section 33-21-3, the Commissioner shall immediately notify the commissioner of community health and such health maintenance organization shall be subject to regulation by the commissioner of community health until such time as it again meets the requirements of subsection (b.1) of Code Section 33-21-3 as determined by the Commissioner.
(Code 1981, §33-21-20.1, enacted by Ga. L. 2004, p. 493, § 7; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-40/HB 228; Ga. L. 2019, p. 386, § 2/SB 133.)
The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, rewrote the first sentence, which formerly read: "On May 13, 2004, all health maintenance organizations meeting the requirements of subsection (b.1) of Code Section 33-21-3 shall not be subject to regulation by the commissioner of human resources (now known as the commissioner of community health for these purposes).", and, in the second sentence, substituted "Commissioner's" for "Commissioner of Insurance's" at the beginning, deleted a semicolon following "community health" in the middle, and deleted "of Insurance" following "Commissioner" at the end.