Genome Statute and Legislation Database
The Genome Statute and Legislation Database is comprised of state statutes and bills introduced during the 2002-2024 U.S. state legislative sessions.
State Sort ascending | Primary Link | Topic(s) | Bill Status | Summary |
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Washington | 2017 State Bills Washington 2017 HB 2213 | Privacy | Enacted | Modifies the state privacy law pertaining to biometric information by adding DNA to the definition of biometric identifiers. Provides an exception for law enforcement agencies. 6/27/2017 Signed by the Governor. Effective 7/23/2017. |
Washington | 2019 State Bills Washington 2019 HB 1990 | Other Topics | Died | Restricts genome editing of human embryos. Died. |
Washington | State StatuteWashington: RCW 40.26.010 et seq. | Privacy | Statute | Modifies the state privacy law pertaining to biometric information by adding DNA to the definition of biometric identifiers. Provides an exception for law enforcement agencies. |
Washington | 2019 State Bills Washington 2019 HB 1870 | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Enacted | Making state law consistent with selected federal consumer protections in the patient protection and affordable care act. Prohibits a health carrier or health plan from establishing rules for eligibility based on health-status related factors such as genetic information. April 17, 2019 Signed by the Governor. Effective immediately. |
Washington | 2019 State Bills Washington 2019 HB 2018 | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | Concerns harassment and discrimination by legislators and legislative branch employees, including discrimination based on genetic status. Substitute bill, which did not include genetic discirmination provision, was enacted. |
Washington | 2021 State Bills Washington 2021 HB 1346 | Health Insurance Coverage | Pending | Requires an osteopathic physician and, physician, physician's assistant and advanced registered nurse practitioner to refer a person who is 18 years of age or younger to a children's specialty health care facility that can provide specialized diagnostic services, including genetic testing, unless the person is currently receiving care in such a facility, if the person has experienced any neurological or physical symptoms, including but not limited to seizures or missing developmental milestones. Requires a health carrier must provide coverage for genetic testing including up to a full genome panel as determined by the ordering practitioner to identify potential causes of seizures, neurological symptoms, or other physical symptoms as determined by the health care provider in persons who are 18 years of age or younger. Carries over to 2022. |
Washington | State StatuteWashington: RCW 48.43.012 | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Statute | Makes state law consistent with selected federal consumer protections in the patient protection and affordable care act. Prohibits a health carrier or health plan from establishing rules for eligibility based on health-status related factors such as genetic information. |
Washington | 2019 State Bills Washington 2019 HB 2046 | Privacy | Died | Seeks to increase consumer data transparency. The bill address consumer biometric information, which is defined to include DNA. Died. |
Washington | 2021 State Bills Washington 2021 HB1433 | Privacy | Pending | Creates a charter of people's personal data rights. Establishes the rights of an individual with regard to personal information. Prohibits a person or legal entity processing captured personal information in a manner that discriminates against consumer on the basis of various characteristics, including predisposing genetic characteristics. Carries over to 2022. |
Washington | State StatuteWashington: RCW 49.44.180 | Employment Nondiscrimination | Statute | A person, firm, corporation, or the state of Washington, its political subdivisions, or municipal corporations may not require any employee or prospective employee to submit genetic information or submit to screening for genetic information as a condition of employment or continued employment. |
Washington | 2019 State Bills Washington 2019 SB 5376 | Privacy | Died | Protects sensitive data of consumers, including genetic data. 1/13/2020 By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. Died. |
Washington | 2021 State Bills Washington 2021 SB 5062 | Privacy | Pending | Prohibits a data controller from processing sensitive data concerning a consumer without obtaining the consumer's consent or, in the case of the processing of sensitive data of a known child, without obtaining consent from the child's parent or lawful guardian, in accordance with the children's online privacy protection act requirements. Data controllers must conduct and document a data protection assessment of processing activities involving personal data, including sensitive data such as genetic data. Carries over to 2022. |
Washington | State StatuteWashington: RCW 70.02.010 et seq. | Privacy, Research | Statute | A health care provider, an individual who assists a health care provider in the delivery of health care, or an agent and employee of a health care provider may not disclose health care information, including a patient's deoxyribonucleic acid and identified sequence of chemical base pairs, about a patient to any other person without the patient's written authorization. A health care provider may disclose health care information to researchers if the health care provider or health care facility obtains the informed consent for the use of the patient's health care information for research purposes. |
Washington | 2019 State Bills Washington 2019 SB 5805 | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Making state law consistent with selected federal consumer protections in the patient protection and affordable care act. Prohibits a health carrier or health plan from establishing rules for eligibility based on health-status related factors such as genetic information. Died. |
Washington | 2020 State Bills Washington 2020 HB 2273 | Other Topics | Died | Creates a study committee on human genome editing. Died. |
Washington | 2015 State Bills Washington 2015 HB 1094 | Privacy | Died | Establishes protections for the use of biometric identifiers of an individual for commercial purposes. Biometric identifier is defined to include DNA. Died. |
Washington | 2020 State Bills Washington 2020 HB 2485 | Privacy | Died | Enacts measures to safeguard the privacy, confidentiality, security, and integrity of a consumer's genetic data resulting from direct-to-consumer genetic testing. Died. |
Virginia | State StatuteVirginia: Code of Va. 38.2-3431 | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Statute | In the statutes pertaining to group health plans, health status-related factors are defined to include genetic information, and pre-existing condition exclusion may not be based on genetic information in the absence of a diagnosis. |
Virginia | 2010 State Bills Virginia 2010 HB 455 | Employment Nondiscrimination | Died | This bill amends the state employment genetic nondiscrimination law by adding the Commonwealth or any of its agencies, institutions, or political subdivisions, or any public body to the list of entities covered under the law. Measure failed. |
Virginia | 2021 State Bills Virginia 2021 HB 2307 | Privacy | Enacted | Establishes a framework for controlling and processing personal data in the Commonwealth. Applies to all persons that conduct business in the Commonwealth and either (i) control or process personal data of at least 100,000 consumers or (ii) derive over 50 percent of gross revenue from the sale of personal data and control or process personal data of at least 25,000 consumers. Outlines responsibilities and privacy protection standards for data controllers and processors. Grants consumer rights to access, correct, delete, obtain a copy of personal data, and to opt out of the processing of personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising. Sensitive data, a form of personal data, is defined to include the processing of genetic or biometric data. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2023. Carried over to 2021 Special Session 1. Governor approved 3/2/21. |
Virginia | State StatuteVirginia: Code of Va. 40.1-120.1 | Employment Nondiscrimination | Statute | Prohibits a sponsor of a registered apprenticeship program from discriminating against an apprentice or applicant for apprenticeship on the basis of various factors, including genetic information. |
Virginia | Virginia SB 419 | Genetic data storage/privacy/sharing (industry) | Died | Establishes requirements for direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies, including requirements related to information to be provided |
Virginia | Virginia SB 1087 | Genetic data storage/privacy/sharing (industry), Lab Developed Tests | Enacted | Establishes requirements for direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies, defined in the bill, including requirements related to information to be provided to consumers, express consent requirements... |
Virginia | State StatuteVirginia: Code of Va. 40.1-28.7:1 | Employment Nondiscrimination | Statute | An employer may not request, require, solicit or administer a genetic test as a condition of employment or refuse to hire, fail to promote, discharge or otherwise adversely affect any terms or conditions of employment of any employee or prospective employee solely on the basis of a genetic characteristic or the results of a genetic test, regardless of how the employer obtained such information or results. An employee may bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction over an employer who took adverse action against the employee. |
Virginia | Virginia HB 1077 | Parentage law | Died | Provides that |
Last updated: February 8, 2024