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2007 State Bills Missouri 2007 HB 818

Missouri

Retrieved from NHGRI

Jurisdiction
Missouri
Status
Enacted
NHGRI topic(s)
Health Insurance Nondiscrimination
Record year or session
2007
NHGRI database updated
February 8, 2024
Snapshot retrieved
September 1, 2026 at 2:32 AM UTC
Source row
15
Stable source ID
nhgri-c0019e32791303e3a1de

NHGRI summary

This bill prohibits individual, small group and large group health insurers from treating genetic information as a pre-existing condition in the absence of a diagnosis. The bill also prohibits health insurers from establishing rules for eligibility based on genetic information. Approved by the Governor June 1, 2007.

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Courtesy: National Human Genome Research Institute. This source layer preserves the state, primary link, topic, bill status, and summary retrieved from NHGRI.