- (a) Pursuant to Arkansas Code § 23-99-1005(c), the Vision Care Plan Act of 2015, Arkansas Code § 23-99-1001 et seq., is applicable to all vision benefit plans or contracts issued, renewed, or recredentialed in this state on and after July 22, 2015.
- (b) The State Insurance Department interprets the Vision Care Plan Act of 2015 to apply to all contracts newly issued after July 22, 2015, or renewed after July 22, 2015, but also to apply to all vision care provider contracts when they are recredentialed after the effective date of the Vision Care Plan Act of 2015, even though a renewal process on the contract has not occurred.