Title: Living Donor Protection Act of 2017
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Living Donor Protection Act of 2017
This bill prohibits discrimination based on an individual's status as a living organ donor in the offering, issuance, cancellation, coverage, price, or any other condition of a life insurance policy, disability insurance policy, or long-term care insurance policy.
The bill amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to specifically include living organ donation as a serious health condition that entitles a covered employee to leave under that Act.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1270 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1270

    To promote and protect from discrimination living organ donors.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2017

    Mr. Nadler (for himself and Ms. Herrera Beutler) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government 
    Reform, House Administration, Education and the Workforce, and 
 Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To promote and protect from discrimination living organ donors.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Living Donor Protection Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON DENIAL OF COVERAGE OR INCREASE IN PREMIUMS OF 
              LIFE OR DISABILITY INSURANCE FOR LIVING ORGAN DONORS.

    (a) Prohibition.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it 
shall be unlawful to--
            (1) decline or limit coverage of a person under any life 
        insurance policy, disability insurance policy, or long-term 
        care insurance policy, due to the status of such person as a 
        living organ donor;
            (2) preclude a person from donating all or part of an organ 
        as a condition of receiving a life insurance policy, disability 
        insurance policy, or long-term care insurance policy;
            (3) consider the status of a person as a living organ donor 
        in determining the premium rate for coverage of such person 
        under a life insurance policy, disability insurance policy, or 
        long-term care insurance policy; or
            (4) otherwise discriminate in the offering, issuance, 
        cancellation, amount of such coverage, price, or any other 
        condition of a life insurance policy, disability insurance 
        policy, or long-term care insurance policy for a person, based 
        solely and without any additional actuarial risks upon the 
        status of such person as a living organ donor.
    (b) Enforcement.--A State insurance regulator may take such actions 
to enforce subsection (a) as are specifically authorized under the laws 
of such State.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Disability insurance policy.--The term ``disability 
        insurance policy'' means a contract under which an entity 
        promises to pay a person a sum of money in the event that an 
        illness or injury resulting in a disability prevents such 
        person from working.
            (2) Life insurance policy.--The term ``life insurance 
        policy'' means a contract under which an entity promises to pay 
        a designated beneficiary a sum of money upon the death of the 
        insured.
            (3) Living organ donor.--The term ``living organ donor'' 
        means an individual who has donated all or part of an organ and 
        is not deceased.
            (4) Long-term care insurance policy.--The term ``long-term 
        care insurance policy'' means a contract for which the only 
        insurance protection provided under the contract is coverage of 
        qualified long-term care services (as defined in section 
        7702B(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986).

SEC. 3. CLARIFICATION OF ORGAN DONATION SURGERY AS QUALIFYING AS A 
              SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITION UNDER FMLA.

    Section 101(11) of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (29 
U.S.C. 2611(11)) is amended by inserting ``(including recovery from 
surgery related to organ donation)'' after ``physical or mental 
condition''.

SEC. 4. UPDATING OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ON THE BENEFITS OF LIVE ORGAN 
              DONATION.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 6 months after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (in 
this section referred to as the ``Secretary'') shall review and update 
materials related to live organ donation in order to educate the public 
on--
            (1) the benefits of live organ donation; and
            (2) the impact of live organ donation on the access of a 
        living organ donor to insurance.
Such updating shall include information on the changes made by sections 
2 and 3 of this Act.
    (b) Methods of Updating.--In carrying out subsection (a), the 
Secretary shall update, as appropriate--
            (1) Public Service Announcements previously provided by the 
        Secretary;
            (2) publicly accessible Web sites (such as organdonor.gov, 
        or a successor Web site) that are maintained by the Secretary 
        and that contain information and resources regarding live organ 
        donation; and
            (3) other media determined appropriate by the Secretary.
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