26 U.S.C. § 9803 — Guaranteed renewability in multi­employer plans and certain multiple employer welfare arrangements

(a) A group health plan^* that is a multiemployer plan, as defined in section 414(f), or a multiple employer welfare arrangement may not deny an employer continued access to the same or different coverage under the plan, except: (1) for failure to pay contributions; (2) for fraud or intentional material misrepresentation by the employer; (3) for failure to comply with material plan provisions; (4) because the plan is stopping all coverage in a geographic area; (5) for a network plan^*, because no person enrolled through the employer still lives, resides, or works in the network service area, if the plan applies this rule uniformly without regard to employers’ claims experience or a factor in section 9802(a)(1) concerning those people or dependents; or (6) for failure to meet a collective-bargaining agreement, renew an agreement requiring or authorizing contributions, or employ employees covered by such an agreement. (b) “Multiple employer welfare arrangement” has the meaning given in section 3(40) of the Employee^* Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 as that provision existed when this section was enacted. This section does not otherwise define the quoted term.