Bill Text: CT SB00314 | 2011 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Mental Or Nervous Conditions Under The Connecticut Unfair Insurance Practices Act.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2011-07-13 - Signed by the Governor [SB00314 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2011-SB00314-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Committee Bill No. 314
January Session, 2011		LCO No. 2607
		*02607SB00314INS*
Referred to Committee on Insurance and Real Estate
Introduced by:
(INS)

AN ACT CONCERNING MENTAL OR NERVOUS CONDITIONS UNDER THE CONNECTICUT UNFAIR INSURANCE PRACTICES ACT.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subdivision (12) of section 38a-816 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2011):

(12) Refusing to insure, refusing to continue to insure or limiting the amount, extent or kind of coverage available to an individual or charging an individual a different rate for the same coverage because of physical disability, mental or nervous condition as set forth in section 38a-488a or mental retardation, except where the refusal, limitation or rate differential is based on sound actuarial principles or is related to actual or reasonably anticipated experience.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2011	38a-816(12)

Statement of Purpose:

To add to the list of unfair insurance practices the refusal to insure, the refusal to continue to insure or a limitation of the amount, extent or kind of coverage available to an individual or the charge of a different rate for the same coverage because such individual has been diagnosed with a mental or nervous condition as set forth in section 38a-488a of the general statutes.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]

Co-Sponsors:

SEN. CRISCO, 17th Dist.

S.B. 314