WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 242

(6)     mental or physical disability;

(7)     national origin;

(8)     political affiliation, belief, or opinion;

(9)     race;

(10)   religious affiliation, belief, or opinion;

(11)   sex; or

(12)   any other nonmerit factor.

(B) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION (C) OF THIS SECTION, ALL
PERSONNEL ACTIONS CONCERNING ANY EMPLOYEE IN THE STATE PERSONNEL
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WHO IS NOT IN THE CLASSIFIED SERVICE SHALL BE MADE
WITHOUT REGARD TO ANY FACTOR IN SUBSECTION (A)(1) THROUGH (11) OF THIS
SECTION.

[(b)](C) An action may be taken with regard to age, sex, or disability to the extent
that age, sex, or physical or mental qualification is a bona fide occupational qualification.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1993.

Approved May 11, 1993.

CHAPTER 242
(Senate Bill 451)

AN ACT concerning

Long-Term Care Insurance - Minimum Regulatory Requirements

FOR the purpose of imposing certain requirements on insurers concerning certain
advertisements relating to long-term care policies; requiring the Insurance
Commissioner to review and retain the advertisements for a certain period of time;
requiring an insurer marketing certain long-term care policies to establish certain
marketing procedures for solicitation and issuance of long-term care policies and to
provide applicants for long-term care insurance certain outlines of coverage and a
buyer's guide; establishing certain parameters relating to exclusions and limitations
of long-term care policies; specifying the content of the outline and buyer's guide;
requiring the insurer to obtain from an insured certain designations of individuals
who will be notified of cancellation of the insured's policy; limiting cancellation of
long-term care policies to specified situations; requiring notification for certain
cancellations of long-term care policies; establishing standards for long-term care
policies providing home health care services; ensuring that group policies provide
continuation of coverage; altering a provision relating to surrender of policies by an
insured and requiring an insurer to provide a certain notice concerning the right to

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