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Utah Passes Bill Restricting Insurance Coverage of Organ Transplants from China

MARCH 2024: The state of Utah has signed into law a bill (S.B. 262) restricting insurance coverage of transplant surgery done in China. The bill will come into effect on May 1, 2024.

Excerpt from the bill below:

An issuer of accident and health insurance may not cover a human organ transplant or post-transplant care if:
(a) the human organ transplant operation is performed in the People’s Republic of China or any other country known to have participated in forced organ harvesting, as designated pursuant to Subsection (3); or
(b) the human organ to be transplanted was procured by sale or donation originating in the People’s Republic of China or any other country known to have participated in forced organ harvesting, as designated pursuant to Subsection (3).

Click HERE for the bill text

ASSOCIATED NEWS:

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/2nd-state-passes-bill-to-confront-forced-organ-harvesting-in-china-5600372
• https://www.visiontimes.com/2024/03/21/new-utah-law-takes-aim-at-communist-chinas-organ-harvesting-atrocities.html