SF0060 - Insurance-privacy regulations.
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2001 |
State of Wyoming |
01LSO-0212 |
SENATE FILE NO. SF0060
Insurance-privacy regulations.
Sponsored by: Joint Corporations, Elections and Political
Subdivisions
Interim Committee
A BILL
for
1 AN ACT relating to
insurance; authorizing rules governing
2 the
disclosure of financial and health information of
3
insurance consumers; specifying restrictions on rules; and
4
providing for an effective date.
5
6 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
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8 Section 1. W.S. 26-2-133 is created to read:
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10 26-2-133. Disclosure of nonpublic
personal
11 information; rulemaking.
12
13 The commissioner is authorized to adopt
rules necessary to
14 govern the practices of all persons licensed
under this
15 code with respect to the disclosure of
nonpublic personal
16 financial and health information of
insurance consumers and
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customers. The rules shall
prohibit the disclosure of any
2
nonpublic personal information contrary to the provisions
3 of
title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999, P.L. 106-
4
102. The rules shall be
consistent with, but no less
5
restrictive, than the provisions of the model regulation
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adopted on September 26, 2000, by the National Association
7 of
Insurance Commissioners entitled "Privacy of Consumer
8
Financial and Health Information Regulation."
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10 Section 2. This act is
effective immediately upon
11 completion of all acts necessary for a bill
to become law
12 as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the
Wyoming
13 Constitution.
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15 (END)
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