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ment,’’, and by striking ‘‘title.’’ and inserting 
‘‘title, and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
clause: 
‘‘(iii) subject to subparagraph (E), in the case 
of any other employee welfare benefit plan which is 
a multiple employer welfare arrangement and which 
provides medical care (within the meaning of section 
733(a)(2)), any law of any State which regulates in-
surance may apply.’’. 
(4) Section 514(d) of such Act (29 U.S.C. 
1144(d)) is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘Nothing’’ and inserting 
‘‘(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), noth-
ing’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(2) Nothing in any other provision of law enacted 
on or after the date of the enactment of this paragraph 
shall be construed to alter, amend, modify, invalidate, im-
pair, or supersede any provision of this title, except by 
specific cross-reference to the affected section.’’. 
(c) PLAN SPONSOR.—Section 3(16)(B) of such Act 
(29 U.S.C. 102(16)(B)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new sentence: ‘‘Such term also includes a 
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person serving as the sponsor of an association health plan 
under part 8.’’. 
(d) DISCLOSURE OF SOLVENCY PROTECTIONS RE-
LATED TO SELF-INSURED AND FULLY INSURED OPTIONS 
UNDER ASSOCIATION HEALTH PLANS.—Section 102(b) 
of such Act (29 U.S.C. 102(b)) is amended by adding at 
the end the following: ‘‘An association health plan shall 
include in its summary plan description, in connection 
with each benefit option, a description of the form of sol-
vency or guarantee fund protection secured pursuant to 
this Act or applicable State law, if any.’’. 
(e) SAVINGS CLAUSE.—Section 731(c) of such Act is 
amended by inserting ‘‘or part 8’’ after ‘‘this part’’. 
(f) REPORT TO THE CONGRESS REGARDING CERTIFI-
CATION
OF
SELF-INSURED
ASSOCIATION
HEALTH 
PLANS.—Not later than January 1, 2019, the Secretary 
of Labor shall report to the Committee on Education and 
the Workforce of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of 
the Senate the effect association health plans have had, 
if any, on reducing the number of uninsured individuals. 
(g) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
in section 1 of the Employee Retirement Income Security 
Act of 1974 is amended by inserting after the item relat-
ing to section 734 the following new items: 
‘‘PART 8—RULES GOVERNING ASSOCIATION HEALTH PLANS 
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‘‘801. Association health plans. 
‘‘802. Certification of association health plans. 
‘‘803. Requirements relating to sponsors and boards of trustees. 
‘‘804. Participation and coverage requirements. 
‘‘805. Other requirements relating to plan documents, contribution rates, and 
benefit options. 
‘‘806. Maintenance of reserves and provisions for solvency for plans providing 
health benefits in addition to health insurance coverage. 
‘‘807. Requirements for application and related requirements. 
‘‘808. Notice requirements for voluntary termination. 
‘‘809. Corrective actions and mandatory termination. 
‘‘810. Trusteeship by the Secretary of insolvent association health plans pro-
viding health benefits in addition to health insurance coverage. 
‘‘811. State assessment authority. 
‘‘812. Definitions and rules of construction.’’. 
SEC. 452. CLARIFICATION OF TREATMENT OF SINGLE EM-
PLOYER ARRANGEMENTS. 
Section 3(40)(B) of the Employee Retirement Income 
Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1002(40)(B)) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in clause (i), by inserting after ‘‘control 
group,’’ the following: ‘‘except that, in any case in 
which the benefit referred to in subparagraph (A) 
consists of medical care (as defined in section 
812(a)(2)), two or more trades or businesses, wheth-
er or not incorporated, shall be deemed a single em-
ployer for any plan year of such plan, or any fiscal 
year of such other arrangement, if such trades or 
businesses are within the same control group during 
such year or at any time during the preceding 1-year 
period,’’; 
(2) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘(iii) the deter-
mination’’ and inserting the following: 
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‘‘(iii)(I) in any case in which the benefit re-
ferred to in subparagraph (A) consists of medical 
care (as defined in section 812(a)(2)), the deter-
mination of whether a trade or business is under 
‘common control’ with another trade or business 
shall be determined under regulations of the Sec-
retary applying principles consistent and coextensive 
with the principles applied in determining whether 
employees of two or more trades or businesses are 
treated as employed by a single employer under sec-
tion 4001(b), except that, for purposes of this para-
graph, an interest of greater than 25 percent may 
not be required as the minimum interest necessary 
for common control, or 
‘‘(II) in any other case, the determination’’; 
(3) by redesignating clauses (iv) and (v) as 
clauses (v) and (vi), respectively; and 
(4) by inserting after clause (iii) the following 
new clause: 
‘‘(iv) in any case in which the benefit referred 
to in subparagraph (A) consists of medical care (as 
defined in section 812(a)(2)), in determining, after 
the application of clause (i), whether benefits are 
provided to employees of two or more employers, the 
arrangement shall be treated as having only one par-
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ticipating employer if, after the application of clause 
(i), the number of individuals who are employees and 
former employees of any one participating employer 
and who are covered under the arrangement is 
greater than 75 percent of the aggregate number of 
all individuals who are employees or former employ-
ees of participating employers and who are covered 
under the arrangement,’’. 
SEC. 453. ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS RELATING TO ASSO-
CIATION HEALTH PLANS. 
(a) CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR CERTAIN WILLFUL 
MISREPRESENTATIONS.—Section 501 of the Employee 
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1131) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(c) Any person who willfully falsely represents, to 
any employee, any employee’s beneficiary, any employer, 
the Secretary, or any State, a plan or other arrangement 
established or maintained for the purpose of offering or 
providing any benefit described in section 3(1) to employ-
ees or their beneficiaries as— 
‘‘(1) being an association health plan which has 
been certified under part 8, 
‘‘(2) having been established or maintained 
under or pursuant to one or more collective bar-
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