CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5003
67TH LEGISLATURE
2021 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the Senate April 14, 2021 Yeas 48 Nays 0
President of the Senate Passed by the House April 10, 2021 Yeas 97 Nays 0
Speaker of the House of Representatives | CERTIFICATE I, Brad Hendrickson, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5003 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.
Secretary Secretary |
Approved | FILED |
| Secretary of State State of Washington |
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5003
AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
Passed Legislature - 2021 Regular Session
State of Washington | 67th Legislature | 2021 Regular Session |
BySenate Health & Long Term Care (originally sponsored by Senators Keiser, Conway, Kuderer, Randall, Saldaña, Stanford, and Wilson, C.)
READ FIRST TIME 01/21/21.
AN ACT Relating to enacting the living donor act; and adding a new section to chapter
48.02 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter
48.02 RCW to read as follows:
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all insurers, fraternal benefit societies, health carriers including disability insurers, health maintenance organizations, and health care service contractors, and limited health care service contractors may not:
(a) Decline or limit coverage of a person under a policy or contract solely due to the status of the person as a living organ donor;
(b) Preclude a person from donating all or part of an organ as a condition of receiving or continuing to receive a policy or contract; or
(c) Otherwise discriminate in the offering, issuance, cancellation, amount of coverage, price, or any other condition of a policy or contract for a person based solely and without any additional actuarial risks upon the status of the person as a living organ donor. Except as provided in RCW
48.43.0128,
48.44.220, or
48.46.370, this subsection does not prohibit fair discrimination on the basis of sex, or marital status, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical handicap when bona fide statistical differences in risk or exposure have been substantiated.
(2) The commissioner shall make educational materials available to the health plans and the public on the access of living organ donors to insurance.
(3) The commissioner may adopt rules to implement this section.
(4) For purposes of this section, "living organ donor" means an individual who has donated all or part of an organ and is not deceased.
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