The Hastings Center Bioethics Briefings are nonpartisan overviews of key issues in bioethics contributed by leading bioethicists. Topics include DNA and law enforcement, gene patents, and genetic testing and screening, stem cells, synthetic biology, and others.
An employer may not (1) seek to obtain, obtain or use genetic screening or testing information of an employee or a prospective employee to discriminate against an employee or a prospective employee or (2) subject any employee or prospective employee to any genetic screening or test.
Requires individual policies of accident and health or sickness insurance to provide coverage for genetic counseling and testing related to the BRCAl or BRCA2 genetic mutation, if indicated. 3/9/2020 Referred to House Committees on Health, Consumer Protection on Commerce, and. Finance. Bill Status: Pending
Requires individual policies of accident and health or sickness insurance to provide coverage for genetic counseling and testing related to the BRCAl or BRCA2 genetic mutation, if indicated. 2/27/2020 The committee on Finance recommends that the measure be deferred. Bill Status: Pending
Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for: (1) screening to determine whether counseling and testing related to the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic mutation is indicated; and (2) genetic counseling and testing related to the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic mutation, if indicated. Carries over to 2020 session. Bill Status: Pending
Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for: (1) screening to determine whether counseling and testing related to the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic mutation is indicated; and (2) genetic counseling and testing related to the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic mutation, if indicated. Carries over to 2020 session. Bill Status: Pending
Requires accident and health or sickness insurers to provide coverage for genetic counseling and testing related to the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic mutation, if indicated. Died. Bill Status: 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. Bill Status: Died
Requires all individual accident and health or sickness insurance policies, all individual and group hospital and medical service corporation contracts, and all group or blanket disability policies that provide coverage for reproductive health to include certain services in reproductive health service coverage. The services listed include genetic screening and counseling related to BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic mutations. Died. Bill Status: Died
Requires the State Department of Health Care Services to provide individuals diagnosed with breast cancer information relating to breast cancer susceptibility gene (BRCA) mutations. The goal is to help achieve increased genetic counseling and screening rates of individuals for whom BRCA test results can inform treatment decisions. 10/12/2017 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 693, Statutes of 2017. Bill Status: Enacted