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An employer may not fail or refuse to hire, discharge or otherwise discriminate against an employee or applicant for employment because of the individual's refusal to submit to a genetic test or…

Personal information, including genetic information, pertaining to state employees is confidential and not open to public inspection. An employee may examine records containing personal information…

Requires the Maine Health Care Agency to establish an affordability assurance program. The program must include rates of payment for various medical tests to detect or evaluate disease and to…

Prohibits the collection, entry into an education database or maintenance of DNA by as education records by the department of education or school administrative unit. Died. Bill Status: Died

In amended version, prohibits pre-existing condition exclusions in individual health plans but removes text referring to genetic information. Allows restricted enrollment in individual health plans…

No member, officer, employee or agent of a municipal housing authority may knowingly divulge or disclose personnel information declared confidential with some specified exceptions. Personal…

The department of education, a school administrative unit or a state agency may not collect, store, transmit or process the certain information, including DNA, from a student without the written…

Requires companies who sell DNA testing kits to inform a purchaser of certain information. This includes a written statement to inform the consumer that, by submitting DNA for testing, one loses the…

Requires health plans to cover the cost of the genetic testing of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes to detect an increased risk for breast and ovarian cancer when recommended by a healthcare provider in…

Requires coverage of cancer treatment targeting a specific genetic mutation. Prohibits a health coverage plan from denying coverage for a medically necessary drug on the basis that the drug is not…