Montana
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State Laws Database: 0 records
NHGRI database archive: 14 records
Status: 4 enacted or approved; 0 proposed or pending
Most common mapped topics: Health Insurance Nondiscrimination (6) · Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination (4) · Health Insurance Coverage (1)
Records in Montana
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| Jurisdiction | Law or policy | Topics | Status | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 2019 State Bills Montana 2019 HB 609NHGRI archive2019 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Amends state health insurance law by deleting provision related to restrictions on pre-existing condition exclusions, including those based on genetic information. The new law would prohibit any pre-existing condition exclusions. Died. |
| Montana | 2019 State Bills Montana 2019 SB 105NHGRI archive2019 legislative sessionPrimary source | Other Topics | Died | Requires lobbyists to complete harassment prevention training. Harassment is defined to include unwelcome verbal or physical conduct that denigrates or shows hostility or aversion toward an individual on the basis of genetic information. Died. |
| Montana | 2017 State Bills Montana 2017 HB 356NHGRI archive2017 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Health insurance issuers offering individual health_insurance_coverage may not establish rules for eligibility, including continued eligibility, of any individual based on a health status-related factor, including genetic information, of the individual or a dependent of the individual. Died. |
| Montana | 2017 State Bills Montana 2017 HB 392NHGRI archive2017 legislative sessionPrimary source | Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Creates the Montana family and medical leave insurance fund. Applicants for coverage must provide eligibility documentation. The department may not require documentation that exceeds the right to privacy allowed under HIPAA, the ADA and GINA. Died. |
| Montana | 2015 State Bills Montana 2015 HB 45NHGRI archive2015 legislative sessionPrimary source | Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Amends existing genetic information and insurance law by removing the exclusion of life, disability and long-term care insurance. Died. |
| Montana | 2015 State Bills Montana 2015 HB 501NHGRI archive2015 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | This bill requires parental consent or consent from a student 18 years or older prior to collecting or recording biometric data, which is defined to include a DNA sequence. Died. |
| Montana | 2013 State Bills Montana 2013 HB 441NHGRI archive2013 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Coverage | Died | Each group or individual medical expense, cancer, and blanket disability policy, certificate of insurance, and membership contract must provide minimum mammography examination coverage. The definition of minimum mammography examination is amended to include: a) a mammogram each year for a woman who is under 35 years of age if: (i) the woman has two or more first-degree family members diagnosed with breast cancer or ovarian cancer; (ii) genetic tests indicate the woman is at higher risk for breast cancer; or (iii) the woman's physician recommends the test. Died in Standing Committee on April 24, 2013. |
| Montana | 2013 State Bills Montana 2013 SB 383NHGRI archive2013 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | A health insurance issuer offering individual health_insurance_coverage in this state may not establish rules for eligibility or adjust premiums for any individual or individual's dependent to enroll in individual health_insurance_coverage based on genetic information. Individual health insurance issuers also may not impose any preexisting condition exclusion on the basis of genetic information or request or require an individual or a family member of an individual to undergo a genetic test. Died in Standing Committee. |
| Montana | 2010 State Bills Montana 2010 HB 128NHGRI archive2010 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | This bill amends the health insurance statutes and prohibits a group health plan or a health insurance issuer offering group health_insurance_coverage from imposing a preexisting condition exclusion on an individual under 19 years of age because of a preexisting condition. Genetic information may not be treated as a pre-existing condition under existing law. Measure failed. |
| Montana | 2010 State Bills Montana 2010 HB 183NHGRI archive2010 legislative sessionPrimary source | Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | This bill amends the genetic nondiscrimination law pertaining to life and disability insurance to exclude high deductible plans. Measure failed. |
| Montana | Montana HB 682NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Neonatal sequencing | Approved | Revise laws related to collection of genetic material for newborn screenings. |
| Montana | State StatuteMontana: MCA 33-18-206NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination | Statute | Unfair discrimination between individuals of the same class and equal expectation of life in any contract of life insurance or of life annuity is prohibited. Unfair discrimination between individuals of the same class and of essentially the same hazard for disability insurance is prohibited. An insurer may not refuse to consider an application for life or disability insurance on the basis of a genetic condition. The rejection of an application or the determining of rates, terms, or conditions of a life or disability insurance contract is permissible if the applicant's medical condition and history as well as either claims experience or actuarial projections establish that substantial differences in claims are likely to result from the genetic condition. |
| Montana | State StatuteMontana: MCA 33-18-901 et seq.NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Research | Statute | An insurer, health service corporation, health maintenance organization, fraternal benefit society, or other issuer of an individual or group policy or certificate of insurance may not discriminate based on a persons genetic traits. These entities also may not underwrite or condition coverage on a requirement or agreement to take a genetic test or on genetic information of an individual or his or her family member, and they may not seek genetic information for a purpose that is unrelated to assessing or managing ones health, inappropriate in an asymptomatic individual, or unrelated to research in which a subject is not personally identifiable. These entities may not require an individual to obtain a genetic test also with some exceptions. The law does not apply to life, disability income or long-term care insurance. |
| Montana | State StatuteMontana: MCA 33-22-514 and 33-22-526NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Statute | A group health plan or a health insurance issuer offering group health_insurance_coverage may not impose a pre-existing condition exclusion based on genetic information. A group health plan or a health insurance issuer offering group health_insurance_coverage may not establish rules for eligibility or continued eligibility of any individual to enroll under the terms of the group health plan based on health status-related factors, including genetic information. |