Bill Text: TX HB317 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting discrimination against living organ donors by certain insurers.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB317 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB317-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting discrimination against living organ donors by certain insurers.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB317 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB317-Introduced.html
By: Murr | H.B. No. 317 |
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relating to prohibiting discrimination against living organ donors | ||
by certain insurers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the Texas Living Organ | ||
Donor Act. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 544, Insurance Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subchapter M to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER M. LIVING ORGAN DONORS | ||
Sec. 544.601. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "living | ||
organ donor" means a living individual who donates an organ to | ||
another individual. | ||
Sec. 544.602. PROHIBITIONS. An insurer may not solely: | ||
(1) use the fact that an individual is a living organ | ||
donor to reject, deny, limit, cancel, refuse to renew, increase the | ||
premiums for, or otherwise adversely affect the individual's | ||
eligibility for, cost of, or coverage under a life insurance policy | ||
or contract, disability insurance policy, or long-term care | ||
insurance policy offered by the insurer; or | ||
(2) prevent an insured from donating all or part of an | ||
organ as a condition of continuing coverage under a life insurance | ||
policy or contract, disability insurance policy, or long-term care | ||
insurance policy. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 544.602, Insurance Code, as added by | ||
this Act, applies only to an insurance policy or contract that is | ||
delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, | ||
2022. A policy or contract that is delivered, issued for delivery, | ||
or renewed before January 1, 2022, is governed by the law as it | ||
existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that | ||
law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |