Bills › 90th General Assembly
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 10, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 10, 2024
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Insurance companies would be allowed to share more of your genetic information with other insurance providers. The law would also stop life, disability, and long-term care insurance companies from discriminating against you based on your DNA or using genetic traits to decide your coverage. These new rules ensure that genetic information cannot be used as a preexisting condition for these types of insurance.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to genetic information provided to an insurer that offers health insurance, disability insurance, life insurance, and long-term care insurance. “Insurer”, “disability insurance”, “life insurance”, and “long-term care insurance” are defined in the bill. Under current law, with respect to health insurance, a third-party administrator or health insurer shall not release genetic information pertaining to an individual without the prior written authorization of the individual, and such written authorization shall be required for each disclosure and shall include the person to whom the disclosure is being made. _____ insurance, or long-term care insurance. Current law prohibits a health insurer, with respect to health insurance, from discriminating against an individual or a member of the individual’s family on the basis of genetic information or genetic testing. The bill prohibits the same discrimination for life insurance, disability insurance, and long-term care insurance. Under current law, a health insurer is not required to provide particular benefits, but shall not consider a genetic propensity, susceptibility, or carrier status as a preexisting condition for the purposes of health insurance. Under the bill, the same applies to life insurance, disability insurance, and long-term care insurance. Current law prohibits a health insurer from using genetic information or genetic testing for underwriting health insurance in individual and group markets. The same prohibition applies to an insurer of life insurance, disability insurance, or long-term care insurance.
House subcommittee
Named January 10, 2024. On January 17, 2024 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 3-0.
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