Special Enrollment Period
Health Insurance
A time outside of the open enrollment period during which you and your family have a right to sign up for job-based health coverage. Job-based plans must provide a special enrollment period of 30 days following certain life events that involve a change in family status (for example, marriage or birth of a child) or loss of other job-based health coverage.
- — HealthCare.gov Glossary retrieved 2014-05-16