Over the years health care sharing ministries have been granted safe harbor provisions in eleven states' insurance codes. As we seek to expand the number of states with safe harbor provisions we are delighted to see bills introduced in Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Montana, North Carolina and South Carolina that would grant safe harbor provisions in those respective states. Even though health care sharing is not insurance, insurance regulators occasionally attempt to subject health care sharing ministries to the same requirements as insurance companies. Because it is impossible to meet such standards without destroying the voluntary, ministerial nature of our ministries, these bills are an important legislative avenue to protecting health care sharing ministries.