NRS689B.470. Certain plan, fund or program to be treated as employee welfare benefit plan which is group health plan; partnership deemed employer of each partner. [Effective through December 31, 2013.]

  For the purposes of NRS 689B.340 to 689B.590, inclusive:

      1.  Any plan, fund or program which would not be, but for section 2721(e) of the Public Health Service Act, as amended by Public Law 104-191, as that section existed on July 16, 1997, an employee welfare benefit plan and which is established or maintained by a partnership to the extent that the plan, fund or program provides medical care, including items and services paid for as medical care, to current or former partners in the partnership, or to their dependents, as defined under the terms of the plan, fund or program, directly or through insurance, reimbursement, or otherwise, must be treated, subject to the provisions of subsection 2, as an employee welfare benefit plan that is a group health plan.

      2.  In the case of a group health plan, a partnership shall be deemed to be the employer of each partner.

      (Added to NRS by 1997, 2903; R 2013, 3661, effective January 1, 2014)