Section 12632.

(a) An insurer or Medi-Cal managed care plan that fails to pay any deficiency assessment when it becomes due and payable shall, in addition to the deficiency assessment, pay a penalty of 10 percent of the amount of the deficiency assessment, exclusive of interest and penalties. The amount of any deficiency assessment, exclusive of penalties, shall bear interest at the modified adjusted rate per month, or fraction thereof, established pursuant to Section 6591.5, from the date on which the amount, or any portion thereof, would have been payable if properly reported and assessed until the date of payment.

(b) This section shall be operative on July 1, 2012, and become inoperative on July 1, 2013. As of January 1, 2015, this section shall be repealed.

(Repealed and added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 33, Sec. 99. Effective June 27, 2013. Section operative as of July 1, 2012, by its own provisions. Inoperative July 1, 2013. Repealed as of January 1, 2015, by its own provisions. See later operative version added by Ch. 33.)