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Sets forth requirements for governmental units, including an executive, legislative or judicial agency, a department, a board, a commission, an authority, a public institution of higher education, or a unit or instrument of the state that collects or discloses personal information. Defines personal information to include an individual's genetic print. Died. Bill Status: Died

Requires certain businesses, when destroying a customers records that contain personal or private information of the customer, to take specific steps to protect against unauthorized access to or use of the information. Personal information is defined to include an individual's genetic print. Died. Bill Status: Died

Sets forth requirements for governmental units, including an executive, legislative or judicial agency, a department, a board, a commission, an authority, a public institution of higher education, or a unit or instrument of the state that collects or discloses personal information. Defines personal information to include an individual's genetic print. Died. Bill Status: Died

Requires certain businesses, when destroying a customers records that contain personal or private information of the customer, to take specific steps to protect against unauthorized access to or use of the information. Personal information is defined to include an individual's genetic print. Died. Bill Status: Died

Requires the Motor Vehicle Administration to offer to an applicant for a driver's license, identification card, or moped operator's permit the opportunity to upgrade to an enhanced identification document. The enhanced ID will be embedded with memory and a microprocessor chip that stores biometric identifiers, which may include DNA. Died. Bill Status: Died

Permits a health insurance carrier to make available upon request an upgrade to a biometric health care identification card that can securely validate one's identity and access his or her medical history. Biometric identification is defined to include DNA. Died. Bill Status: Died

Authorizes a person to advertise for, solicit business in the State for, offer, or perform direct to consumer genetic testing only if certain conditions are met. Died. Bill Status: Died

Repeals a prohibition on advertising for or soliciting business related to direct to consumer genetic testing in the State. Died. Bill Status: Died

Allows the Motor Vehicle Administration to offer enhanced identification. An individual who applies for enhanced identification may be asked to provide biometric identification, which is defined to include DNA. Died. Bill Status: Died

Amends existing law pertaining to carriers, defined as insurers, nonprofit health service plans and health maintenance organizations, that offer wellness programs. Health factors are defined to include genetic information. Carriers may seek verification from health care providers that a health factor makes it unreasonably difficult or medically inadvisable for an individual to satisfy or attempt to satisfy an otherwise applicable standard to qualify for a reward of the wellness program. Approved by the Governor April 8, 2014. Bill Status: Enacted