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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>73959</law_id><section_number>6.2-951</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="6.2">Financial Institutions and Services</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Depository Institutions and Trust Organizations</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="8">Banks</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="17">Benefits Consortium</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this article:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Benefits consortium</span>&#x201D; means a trust that complies with the conditions set forth in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Conditions for a benefits consortium" href="/6.2-952/">6.2-952</a>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">ERISA</span>&#x201D; means the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-406, 88 Stat. 829), as amended.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Sponsoring association</span>&#x201D; means an association (i) the members of which are <span class="dictionary">banks</span> and employers that provide products and services to <span class="dictionary">banks</span>, (ii) that is incorporated under the Virginia Nonstock Corporation Act (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Short title" href="/13.1-801/">13.1-801</a> et seq.), (iii) that operates as a nonprofit <span class="dictionary">entity</span> under &#xA7;&#xA0;501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, (iv) that has been in existence for at least 20 years, and (v) that exists for purposes other than arranging for or providing health and welfare benefits to members. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Sponsoring association</span>&#x201D; includes any wholly owned subsidiary of a <span class="dictionary">sponsoring association</span>.</p></section></text><history>2014, cc. 220, 296.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
