26.340.10 101st Legislative Session 1101
ENROLLED
An Act
ENTITLED An Act to prohibit an insurer from declining or limiting life, disability, or long-term care insurance policies based solely on an individual's status as a living organ donor.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:
Section 1. That a NEW SECTION be added to chapter 58-1:
An insurer may not:
(1) Decline or limit coverage of an individual under any life, disability, or long-term care insurance policy solely due to the status of the individual as a living organ donor;
(2) Condition the continuation of a life, disability, or long-term care insurance policy on an insured individual not becoming a living organ donor; or
(3) Otherwise discriminate in the offering, issuance, cancellation, amount of coverage, price, or any other condition of a life, disability, or long-term care insurance policy based solely, and without any additional actuarial risk, upon the status of an individual as a living organ donor.
For purposes of this section, "living organ donor" means an individual who has donated all or part of an organ and is not deceased.
An Act to prohibit an insurer from declining or limiting life, disability, or long-term care insurance policies based solely on an individual's status as a living organ donor.
I certify that the attached Act originated in the:
Chief Clerk of the House
Speaker of the House
Attest:
Chief Clerk of the House
President of the Senate
Attest:
Secretary of the Senate
File No. ____ Chapter No. ______
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Received at this Executive Office this _____ day of _____________,
2026 at ____________M.
for the Governor
The attached Act is hereby approved this ________ day of ______________, A.D., 2026
ss. Office of the Secretary of State
Filed ____________, 2026 at _________ o'clock __M.
Secretary of State
Asst. Secretary of State
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