Bill Text: WV HB2192 | 2023 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to health insurance for living organ donors
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-01-11 - To House Health and Human Resources [HB2192 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2023-HB2192-Introduced.html
WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2023 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 2192
By Delegate Burkhammer
[Introduced January 11, 2023; Referred to the Committee on Health and Human Resources then Finance]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §33-57-2, relating to health insurance; prohibiting certain actions and defining terms.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 57. REQUIRED COVERAGE FOR HEALTH INSURANCE.
§33-57-2. Prohibition on denial of coverage, increase in premiums, or cancellation of sickness, disability, or long-term care insurance for living organ donors.
(a) For purposes of this section, the term "living organ donor" means an individual who has donated all or part of an organ and is not deceased.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of §33-1-1 et seq. of this code, an insurer subject to §33-15-1 et seq., §33-16-1 et seq., §33-24-1 et seq., §33-25-1 et seq., or §33-25A-1 et seq. of this code which issues or renews a health insurance policy on or after July 1, 2023, may not:
(1) Decline or limit coverage of a person under any sickness, disability, or long-term care insurance policy solely due to the status of such person as a living organ donor;
(2) Preclude an insured from donating all or part of an organ as a condition of continuing to receive a sickness, disability, or long-term care insurance policy; or
(3) Otherwise discriminate in the offering, issuance, cancellation, amount of such coverage, price, or any other condition of a sickness, disability, or long-term care insurance policy for a person, based solely and without any additional actuarial risks upon the status of such person as a living organ donor.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the denial, cancellation, or other discrimination in policies of life insurance, sickness, disability, or long-term care insurance due to the status of the insured as a living organ donor
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.