Sec. 4. Prohibition on denial of coverage or increase in premiums of life, disability, or long-term care insurance for individuals taking medication for the prevention of HIV acquisition
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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall be unlawful to— decline or limit coverage of an individual under any life insurance policy, disability insurance policy, or long-term care insurance policy, on account of the individual taking medication for the purpose of preventing the acquisition of HIV; preclude an individual from taking medication for the purpose of preventing the acquisition of HIV as a condition of receiving a life insurance policy, disability insurance policy, or long-term care insurance policy; consider whether an individual is taking medication for the purpose of preventing the acquisition of HIV in determining the premium rate for coverage of such individual under a life insurance policy, disability insurance policy, or long-term care insurance policy; or 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 an individual, based solely and without any additional actuarial risks upon whether the individual is taking medication for the purpose of preventing the acquisition of HIV.
A State insurance regulator may take such actions to enforce subsection
(a)as are specifically authorized under the laws of such State. In this section: 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. 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. 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).