1. A. A health maintenance organization which offers health insurance coverage in connection with a group health plan or group health insurance coverage and which does not impose any preexisting condition exclusion allowed under § 38.2-3432.3, with respect to any particular coverage option may impose an affiliation period for such coverage option, but only if:

   1. 1. Such period is applied uniformly without regard to any health status-related factors; and
   2. 2. Such period does not exceed two months (or three months in the case of a late enrollee).
2. B. An affiliation period as described in subsection A shall begin on the enrollment date.
3. C. An affiliation period under a plan shall run concurrently with any waiting period under the plan.
4. D. Defined terms as set forth in § 38.2-3431 which are used in this chapter shall have the same meaning here that they have in Chapter 34.

1997, cc. 807, 913.