SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 2585

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES DONNELLY (Sponsor), BRINGER, McCLANAHAN, CURLS, NASHEED, MEINERS, LeVOTA, STORCH, PAGE, WITTE, SWINGER, HUGHES, DARROUGH, LAMPE, HARRIS (110), YAEGER, KUESSNER, BURNETT, LOW (39), TALBOY, ZIMMERMAN, FALLERT, E-AMIN, SPRENG, SCHOEMEHL AND OXFORD (Co-sponsors).

                  Read 1st time April 1, 2008 and copies ordered printed.

D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

5625L.01I

AN ACT

To amend chapter 376, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to kidney donation.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 376, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 376.449, to read as follows:

            376.449. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no health carrier, as defined in section 376.1350, shall refuse to issue or renew a health benefit plan, as defined in section 376.1350, based solely on an individual's prior donation of a kidney.

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