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1997 SESSION


CHAPTER 290
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 38.2-613.01, relating to health and life insurance; disclosure of medical test results to insurance applicants.
[H 2647]
Approved March 12, 1997

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 38.2-613.01 as follows:

§ 38.2-613.01. Commission to promulgate regulations on disclosure of certain medical test results to insurance applicants.

Pursuant to the authority granted by §§ 38.2-223 and 38.2-3100.1, the Commission shall promulgate such regulations as may be necessary or appropriate to ensure that applicants for life or accident and sickness insurance coverage or for modifications to existing coverage are notified of test results whenever insurers require such applicants to submit to testing for human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV).