Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits discrimination against widowed individuals when establishing insurance rates.

Highlights:

• Prohibits casualty insurance rates from excessive, inadequate, or unfairly discriminatory (Sec. 1). 

• Prohibits insurance companies from treating a widowed person differently than a married person when writing and maintaining their policy (Sec. 1). 

• Requires that the commissioner notify any company that they have reason to believe is not renewing a client's policy because said client reached the age of 65 that they may be in violation and subjected to a hearing (Sec. 1). 

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