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Health and Safety Code § 1399.846

ARTICLE 11.8. Individual Access to Health Care Coverage

Current as of September 28, 2026Health & Saf. Code, § 1399.846Official source ↗

Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 700, Sec. 6. (SB 1375) Effective January 1, 2019.

For the purposes of determining eligibility for small employer coverage, a sole proprietor and the sole proprietor’s spouse are not employees with respect to a sole proprietorship that consists only of the sole proprietor and the sole proprietor’s spouse. A partner and a partner’s spouse are not employees of a partnership that consists solely of partners and their spouses. Employer group health care service plans shall not be issued, marketed, or sold to a sole proprietorship or partnership without employees directly or indirectly through any arrangement. Only individual health care service plans shall be sold to any entity without employees.