Genome Statute and Legislation Database

Amends health insurance law pertaining to pre-existing conditions. Insurers may not treat genetic information as a pre-existing condition. Provision stating "without a diagnosis of a condition related to the information" is stricken. 3/28/2018 Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1.

Requires a genealogy company, defined as a person that is not subject to HIPAA and obtains the DNA of a person through submission of a saliva sample or other methods, to display a notice in all advertising, it�s privacy policies, at the point of sale of the product, and on product packaging. The notice must contain information about the company's privacy policy. Died.

Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for genetic counseling and testing related to the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic mutation, if indicated. Died.

Establishes consumer rights with respect to personal information collected by a business. Personal information includes biometric information. Biometric information is defined to include deoxyribonucleic acid. Died Between Houses, Jun 2, 2021.

Requires employers of 50 people or more to post a notice that it is illegal under federal law to pay employees different wages for the same work based on certain criteria, including genetic information. Died.

Prohibits school district from collecting biometric information on any student without express written consent of the student�s parent or legal guardian. Biometric information includes a DNA sequence. Died.

Prohibits a teaching staff member employed by a board of education from inputting the individually identifiable health information of a student or members of a student�s family, or conversations concerning such information, into a third party software application managed by an entity that engages in partisan political activity. The bill defines individually identifiable health information as any information, including genetic or vaccination information, relating to the past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition of an individual that either identifies the individual or could reasonably be used to identify the individual. Died.

Establishes a personal information bill of rights. Declares the right of all New Yorkers to have their personal information, including DNA, protected. Died.

Sets forth requirements for the collection and use of consumer biometric information by businesses. Biometric information is defined to include an individual's DNA. 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.

Enacts the Parents' Bill of Rights. A parent must consent in writing before a biometric scan of a minor child or a record of a minor child's blood or DNA is created, shared, or stored. April 2, 2015 Recommended for study in the Interim by Joint Interim Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE

Creates Healthy Florida Program for purpose of comprehensive universal single-payer health care coverage. The Board of the program must establish requirements and standards to promote nondiscrimination, including based on genetic information. Died.

Requires certain information holders to encrypt personally identifiable data, which is defined to include a genetic print. Information holders must report a breach of personally identifiable information to consumers. Died.

Requires health_insurance_coverage for certain genetically targeted drugs for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Died.

A business that owns or licenses computerized data that includes personal information such as genetic information of an individual must conduct a reasonable and prompt investigation upon the breach of the security of a system. April 3, 2019 Unfavorable Report by Finance.

Creates the small business health insurance pool. Health benefit plans covering small employers may not use genetic information to establish a pre-existing condition exclusion in the absence of a diagnosis of a condition related to the genetic information. 2/23/2016 (H) Died In Committee.

Requires testing of infants for genetic mutations associated with the development of hereditary hemochromatosis. Died.

This bill requires health insurance policies to cover comprehensive genetic screening for breast, ovarian, prostate, colon and lung cancers. Died.

This bill requires individual and group health insurers that provide coverage on an expense-incurred basis to provide reimbursement not to exceed $115 for mammography screening any female under 35 with a genetic predisposition to breast cancer. Measure failed.

Prohibits discrimination based on an individual�s genetic information in relation to employment, labor relations, insurance coverage, and the provision of social and medical services. In some areas such as employment and insurance existing genetic nondiscrimination law are amended. Died.

Adds tomosynthesis to health_insurance_coverage requirements if a woman is believed to be at increased risk for breast cancer due to family history or prior personal history of breast cancer, positive genetic testing or other indications as determined by a woman's physician or advanced practice registered nurse. Died.

Unless explicitly mandated by federal statute, a state agency, district or education institution must obtain written consent from parents or eligible students before collecting biometric records, defined to include a DNA sequence. Died.

Requires certain businesses that collect a consumer's personal information, including biometric information such as an individual's DNA, to provide certain clear and conspicuous notices to the consumer at or before the point of collection. Authorizes a consumer to submit a certain request for information to a business that collects the consumer's personal information. Requires a business to comply with a request for information within 45 days after receiving a request. Died.

This bill amends the employment discrimination law to state that an unlawful employment practice is established, including discrimination based on genetic information, when the complainant demonstrates that genetic information was a motivating factor for any employment practice even though other factors motivated the practice. Measure failed.

This bill adds supplemental Medicare policies to health insurance plans covered under the state genetic_discrimination Act. HF 1853, which was approved by the Governor, was substituted for this bill.