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Health care service plans and carriers, agents or brokers offering health benefit plans to individuals or solicitors may not encourage or direct federally eligible defined individuals to refrain from…

Small group health policies or contracts may not establish rules for eligibility or continued eligibility based on a health status-related factor, including genetic information. Except in the case of…

The statutes require carriers and health care service plans offering plan contracts in the individual market, other than individual grandfathered plan coverage, to offer to the responsible party for…

Disability insurers covering hospital, medical and surgical expenses may not fail or refuse to accept an application, fail or refuse to issue insurance, cancel or refuse to renew insurance, charge a…

Tests for genetic characteristics may not be required to determine insurability for life and disability income insurance except for policies contingent on review or testing for other diseases and…

A health benefit plan offered to a small employer, as defined in Section 1304(b) of PPACA and in Section 10753, may not establish rules for eligibility, including continued eligibility, of an…

Prohibits the sale of a gene therapy kit unless the seller includes a notice on the seller’s internet website to the consumer prior to the point of sale and on a label on the package stating that the…

This statute was amended as part of 2011 CA SB 559, referred to as CalGINA, by adding genetic information to the list of characteristics addressed in the Unruh Civil Rights Act. All people in…

A person who negligently or willfully discloses genetic test results in an individual's medical records who is applying for or enrolled in a health care service plan, except with written…

A person who underwrites or sells an annuity contract or contracts insuring, guaranteeing, or indemnifying against loss, harm, damage, illness, disability, or death, and any affiliate of that person…