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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="18-120" title_number="18" title_name="Long-Term Care Insurance" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>“Genetic information” means information derived from a genetic test:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>about chromosomes, genes, gene products, or inherited characteristics that may derive from an individual or a family member;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>not obtained for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>obtained at a time when the individual to whom the information relates is asymptomatic for the disease, disorder, illness, or impairment to which the information relates.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Genetic information” does not include information:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>relating to a disease, disorder, illness, or impairment that is or has been manifested or for which the individual is or has been symptomatic; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>derived from:</text>
        </level>
        <level label="A">
          <text>routine physical measurements;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="B">
          <text>chemical, blood, and urine analyses;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="C">
          <text>tests for the use of drugs;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="D">
          <text>tests for the presence of the human immunodeficiency virus; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="E">
          <text>tests for the purpose of diagnosing a manifested disease, disorder, illness, or impairment.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Genetic services” means health services that are provided to obtain, assess, or interpret genetic information or the results of genetic tests.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <level label="i">
        <text>“Genetic test” means an analysis of human DNA, RNA, chromosomes, proteins, or metabolites that detects genotypes, mutations, or chromosomal changes.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Genetic test” does not include:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>routine physical measurements;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>chemical, blood, and urine analyses;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>tests for the use of drugs;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>tests for the presence of the human immunodeficiency virus; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>tests that are directly related to a manifested disease, disorder, illness, or impairment that could reasonably be detected by a health care professional with appropriate training and expertise in the field of medicine involved.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In addition to the other practices prohibited under this article, a carrier or insurance producer of a carrier that provides long–term care insurance may not:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>employ a method of marketing that induces or tends to induce the purchase of long–term care insurance through undue pressure;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>use a method of marketing that fails to disclose in a conspicuous manner that a purpose of the method of marketing is solicitation of insurance, and that contact will be made by an insurance producer or carrier;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>knowingly make a misleading representation or an incomplete or fraudulent comparison of policies or carriers to induce a person to lapse, forfeit, surrender, terminate, retain, pledge, assign, borrow on, or convert a policy or take out a policy with another carrier;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>request or require a genetic test to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>deny or limit the amount, extent, or kind of long–term care insurance coverage available to an individual; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>charge a different rate for the same long–term care insurance coverage; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>use a genetic test, the results of a genetic test, genetic information, or a request for genetic services to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>deny or limit the amount, extent, or kind of long–term care insurance coverage available to an individual; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>charge a different rate for the same long–term care insurance.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Notwithstanding subsection (b)(5) of this section, if the use is based on sound actuarial principles, the results of a genetic test or genetic information may be used to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>deny or limit the amount, extent, or kind of long–term care insurance coverage made available to an individual; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>charge a different rate for the same long–term care insurance.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
