Bill > S2315

Introduced Session

This bill prohibits discrimination against living organ donors in connection with life, health, and long-term care insurance. Living organ donation is the process by which a living person elects to donate all or part of a bodily organ, such as a kidney, lung, or portion of the liver, for transplantation into the body of another person. Specifically, the bill prohibits life, health, and long-term care insurers from declining or limiting coverage based on an individual's status as a living organ donor; precluding a person from donating all or part of an organ; considering the status of a person as a living organ donor in determining the premium rate for coverage of the person under a policy; or otherwise discriminating in the offering, issuance, cancellation, amount of coverage, price, or other condition of coverage for an individual under a policy based solely, and without any additional actuarial risks, on the status of the individual as a living organ donor. The bill additionally revises the continuing education credits required for physicians and nurses to require training concerning the protections established under the bill. This bill is based in part on the provisions of the federal "Living Donor Protection Act of 2019." Similar legislation adopting parts of the federal bill have been enacted in a number of other states, including Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Oregon.

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Jim Beach (D)*,  Nick Scutari (D)*,  Dawn Addiego (D),  Nellie Pou (D), 

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