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Title XXXVII
INSURANCE
Chapter 626
Insurance Field Representatives And Operations
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Section 626.9706, Florida Statutes 2000

626.9706  Life insurance; discrimination on basis of sickle-cell trait prohibited.--

(1)  No insurer authorized to transact insurance in this state shall refuse to issue and deliver any policy of life insurance solely because the person to be insured has the sickle-cell trait.

(2)  No life insurance policy issued and delivered in this state shall carry a higher premium rate or charge solely because the person to be insured has the sickle-cell trait.

History.--s. 1, ch. 78-35; s. 807, ch. 82-243; ss. 206, 207, ch. 90-363; s. 4, ch. 91-429.