The board shall contract with health plans to provide coverage supplemental to that provided by an applicant’s or applicant’s spouse‘s employer-sponsored health plan for the purchasing credit member, if the employer-sponsored plan’s benefits are not 95 percent actuarially equivalent to those provided to subscribers. If supplemental coverage is available and provided, the plan may then, notwithstanding Section 12693.39, become eligible to receive purchasing credits.

(Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 623, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1998.)