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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…

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…

Health care service programs may not treat genetic information as a preexisting condition in the absence of a diagnosis. A health maintenance organization that offers group health insurance coverage…

Informed consent is required to perform DNA analysis. The results of DNA analysis, whether held by a public or private entity, are the exclusive property of the person tested, are confidential, and…

Insurers offering health insurance, a self-insured plan, a multiple employer welfare arrangement, a prepaid limited health service organization, a health maintenance organization, a prepaid health…

This bill creates guidelines such as consent requirements for the creation and storage of biometric information, which is defined to include DNA samples. The bill also prohibits life insurers from…

This bill prohibits a health group cooperative from excluding a small employer based on a health status-related factor, including genetic information in relation to an employee or dependent of an…

Prohibits the collection of student or family information by any state agency, local school system or educational institution, including biometric data (defined to include DNA sequence and newborn…

Except as required by the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, specified information, including DNA, may not be collected, entered into any student database, or maintained as…

Provides coverage for breast cancer screening as part of the state employees' health insurance and benefit plan for individuals at high risk for breast cancer. Individuals at high risk include…