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SB2339 Engrossed |
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| AN ACT concerning insurance.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by adding |
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| Section 364.01 as follows: |
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| (215 ILCS 5/364.01 new) |
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| Sec. 364.01. Qualified cancer trials. |
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| (a) No individual or group policy of accident and health |
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| insurance issued or renewed in this State on or after the |
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| effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General |
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| Assembly may be cancelled or non-renewed for any individual |
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| based on that individual's participation in a qualified cancer |
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| trial. |
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| (b) Qualified cancer trials must meet the following |
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| criteria: |
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| (1) the effectiveness of the treatment has not been |
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| determined relative to established therapies; |
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| (2) the trial is under clinical investigation as part |
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| of an approved cancer research trial in Phase II, Phase |
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| III, or Phase IV of investigation; |
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| (3) the trial is approved by the U.S. Secretary of |
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| Health and Human Services, the Director of the National |
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| Institutes of Health, the Commissioner of the Food and Drug |
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| Administration (through an investigational new drug |
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| exemption under Section 505(l) of the federal Food, Drug, |
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| and Cosmetic Act or an investigational device exemption |
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| under Section 520(g) of that Act), or a qualified |
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| nongovernmental cancer research entity as defined in |
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| guidelines of the National Institutes of Health or a peer |
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| reviewed and approved cancer research program, as defined |
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| by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, |
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| conducted for the primary purpose of determining whether or |