94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB1117


 
Introduced 02/08/05, by Rep. Ron Stephens
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		













215 ILCS 5/155.42 new










    Amends the Illinois Insurance Code.  Prohibits an insurance company offering life insurance from refusing to issue or renew a life insurance policy on the basis of the applicant or insured having voluntarily admitted himself or herself into a drug or alcohol rehabilitation program during the time the person is in the program and for 5 years after the person is discharged or checks out of the program. Effective immediately.
















LRB094 05522 LJB 35571 b

















 


 


A BILL FOR









 











HB1117

LRB094 05522 LJB 35571 b






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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 155.42 as follows:
 
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    (215 ILCS 5/155.42  new)
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    Sec. 155.42. Refusal to provide life insurance on the basis 
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of voluntary admission into a drug or alcohol rehabilitation 
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program. No company authorized in this State to write a policy 
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of life insurance may refuse to issue or renew a policy of life 
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insurance on the basis that the applicant or insured was 
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voluntarily admitted into a program for drug or alcohol 
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rehabilitation. This prohibition extends from the time that the 
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applicant or insured is admitted to the program to 5 years 
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after the applicant or insured checks out or is discharged from 
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the program.
 

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    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
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becoming law.