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This statute states that health care insurers in the group market may not establish rules for eligibility or continued eligibility based on genetic information or impose preexisting condition…

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A health maintenance organization, company, insurance broker, medical service corporation, non-profit hospital service corporation or preferred provider organization may not cancel, refuse to issue…

Creates a health data collaborative working group to examine and make recommendations regarding (1) precision medicine and personalized health; (2) economic growth initiatives for businesses working…

Creates a small business health insurance pool. Genetic information may not be excluded as a preexisting condition in the small business health insurance pool in the absence of a diagnosis of the…

This bill amends statutes pertaining to discriminatory practices in employment, housing, and public accommodations. The bill provides exclusive remedies for individuals alleging discrimination in…

Creates the small business health insurance pool. Health benefit plans covering small employers may not exclude genetic information as a preexisting condition in the absence of a diagnosis of the…

Allows parents or legal guardians of students enrolled in public schools to opt-out of sharing their child's personal information with the federal government and other agencies and private…

This statute states that genetic information is a health status-related factor that may not be used as the basis for denial of coverage or as the basis for a pre-existing condition exclusion in the…

Genetic information contained in reports or records held by hospitals, laboratories, physicians, insurance institutions and others named in the statute may not be divulged without informed written…