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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 5517
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 5471
Referred to Committee on INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE
Introduced by:
(INS)
AN ACT CONCERNING LI FE INSURANCE POLICIES AND
CONTRACTS THAT INSUR E THE LIVES OF CONVICTED FELONS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2019) No life insurance 1
company doing business in this state shall refuse to deliver or issue for 2
delivery a life insurance policy or contract solely on the basis that such 3
policy or contract insures, or will insure, the life of an individual who 4
has been convicted of a felony. 5
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To prohibit life insurance companies doing business in this state from
refusing to deliver or issue a life insurance policy or contract solely on
the basis that such policy or contract insures, or will insure, the life of
an individual who has been convicted of a felony.
[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.]
Committee Bill No. 5517
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Co-Sponsors: REP. MCGEE, 5th Dist.; REP. ELLIOTT, 88th Dist.
H.B. 5517